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TeX by Topic: back in print
The very recommendable book TeX by Topic by Victor Eijkhout, originally published by Addison-Wesley 1991, is now available printed and bound from lulu.com. The author himself announced it today in the usenet group comp.text.tex. The book has been published under … Continue reading
Beamer: frame number in split theme footline
Yet again somebody in the mrunix forum asked for an advice how to put the frame number into the footline of his beamer presentation. He was using the “Warsaw” outer theme. The first solution \setbeamertemplate{footline}[frame number] will just overwrite the … Continue reading
pdfTeX 1.40.8 released
The new stable release of pdfTeX 1.40.8 has been released. pdfTeX is an extended TeX version with the ability to create pdf files directly from TeX source files supporting pdf specific features. Changes include: Implementation of SyncTeX, incorporated the new … Continue reading
Updating babel
Today I had seen a post on mrunix.de where a user called for help, after an update of his MiKTeX installation he was not able to compile even simple latex files. Quickly it turned out that there had to be … Continue reading
Speed up the work by shell scripts
When writing LaTeX and redefining macros I frequently have to look at the source code of macros in LaTeX class files or plain TeX sources. I got used to kpsewhich, find, grep and xargs, but because I needed it often … Continue reading
New package: xstring
xstring by Christian Telllechea has been released today. The package provides macros for the manipulation of strings. Some Features: tests, if one string is contained in another string (n times), extraction of substrings in several ways, substitution of some or … Continue reading
listings.sty with KOMA classes on TeX Live 2007-13 (Ubuntu 8.04, hardy)
When I tried to help somebody to solve a problem in the LaTeX Community Forum, I wrote a short test file, but it was not compilable though it contained just basic commands. I reduced it to the following minimal example: … Continue reading
CQF.info is back
CQF.info, a forum on maths, finance and LaTeX was down for one week, today I noticed it’s back up. Currently the most recent post dates from Wed Jun 25, 2008. Good to see that it’s up, it would be a … Continue reading
Adobe Reader 9 released
I’ve read it today in the Adobe Reader Weblog: the version 9 of the reader has been released. But: until know there’s no Linux version. It’s said that the new version suppports flash, launches faster and more, but I will … Continue reading
The MiKTeX Package Manager 2.7 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)
The MiKTeX Package Manager (mpm) is a tool originally intended for MiKTeX users on Windows platforms. It was ported by Christian Schenk for unix systems, to provide easy access to the MiKTeX package repository also for unix user. There are … Continue reading
Ubuntu Linux 8.04 amd64 on Packard Bell imax 9000
The mainboard of my Shuttle ZEN XPC (ST62K) got broken recently, so I decided to look for a replacement. A big German chain of consumer electronics stores launched a campaign for just two days, I could not resist the temptation … Continue reading
blowup: new package for scaling pages
Today CTAN Announcements informed that the package blowup has been released. It can be used to upscale or downscale all pages of a document. For a first test I created this short a5paper document: \documentclass[pdftex,a5paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \tableofcontents … Continue reading
