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TeXdoc.net updated
The TeX on-line documentation service TeXdoc.net got an update: it’s now based on the newest documentation coming with TeX Live 2016. At this occasion it moved to a new web server. In the background, TeXdoc.net runs the texdoc application that … Continue reading
TeX Live 2016 released
You may have read the great news on ctan-ann or TeX.tips: this year’s update of TeX Live has been released. It is available on CTAN and via http://tug.org/texlive. What’s new? GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) is used for file verification for update security. … Continue reading
LyX 2.2 released
After two years of work, LyX 2.2.0 has been released. There’s a lot of new features, some of the most important are: High resolution display support (aka retina) Qt5 support (Qt4 still supported) Improved text display: proper kerning and ligatures, higher … Continue reading
Registering for the DANTE autumn meeting 2015
At http://www.dante.de/events/Herbst2015/anmeldung.html you can now register to the autumn meeting 2015 of DANTE e.V. It takes place on September 5th at the TU Graz. Besides the member’s meeting and the program with talks, there will be an evening gathering the … Continue reading
TUG 2015
I am currently attending the TUG 2015. I met a lot of great people here. I posted daily reports on LaTeX-Community.org (in English) TeXwelt.de (in German) Maybe I will add some rather personal thoughts here too.
TeX Live 2015 pretest is running
The TeX Live mailing list shows increasing traffic: the TeX Live 2015 pretest version is available, and many users already downloaded and tested it. It contains the LaTeX2e 2015 release, which brought a notable change: the fixes, which were previously … Continue reading
LaTeX Beginner’s Guide available for download today
In agreement with Packt Publishing, I can provide the „LaTeX Beginner’s Guide“ as an ebook for free, only today, March 4, 2015. For further information and updates and background production story you can visit: LaTeX Community forum announcement. This is … Continue reading
TUG 2015 Details
These days, the TUG announced details of the upcoming meeting. You can read all here: https://www.tug.org/tug2015/. This 36th annual meeting will take place July 20 – 22 in Darmstadt, Germany. It’s about 30 kilometers away from Frankfurt, so I plan to … Continue reading
TeXdoc.net got a new interface
Today, TeXdoc.net shines in new splendor. It’s a project of Paulo Cereda and me. While I maintain the web server and the TeX installation, he contributes layout and programming for the interface. Today Paulo provided a completely new version. Together … Continue reading
Matheplanet Award
These days, the voting phase of the Matheplanet Member Award ended. Among the 15 categories, there’s an award for the best LaTeX advisor.
News from goLaTeX
The web site and forum goLaTeX.de moved to a new server, which is maintained by me. Johannes already wrote about it on TeXwelt.de (Neuigkeiten bei goLaTeX), and I posted the news here: Server-Umzug. The appearance stays the same but with improvements:
writeLaTeX is now Overleaf
The company behind the collaborative writing and publishing system writeLaTeX.com, Writelatex Limited, decided to rebrand. From now on, the system will carry the name Overleaf. It continues as a free service with additional advanced features for paid subscriptions. Existing projects, files and … Continue reading


