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PGFPlots 1.11 released
Christian Feuersänger released version 1.11 of PGFPlots. It’s already one week ago, but regarding this special package that news is important for me, so I share it also here. Furthermore, there are news about the future development. I would live to … Continue reading
Periodically, more or less
Recently I got my hands on the sine function, again. It’s the classic example for a periodic function. Everybody knows that horizontal wave in the cartesian coordinate system. Starting with a polar plot of a complex sine function in two … Continue reading
Dynamic systems, bifurcations, procedural worlds
I’m using pgfplots a lot, so I will share some examples today. Here, I benefit from these features of pgfplots, going beyond base TikZ: Simple plotting with 3d coordinates and axonometric projection Presentation of required coordinate axes Using color gradients … Continue reading
Iterated fractals
I recently dealt with Iterated function systems , in short IFS. Here we got repeated transformations: the space will be mapped onto itself. There can be different map specifications. We do this an infinite number of times 🙂 and take … Continue reading
TeX Live 2014 released – what’s new
TeX Live 2014 has been released and is now available for download. Let’s have a look at the changes. TeX TeX and MetaFont have been updated. This previously happened 2008, and this year Donald Knuth provided another update. Now we … Continue reading
LaTeX2e got an update
Today an update of LaTeX2e has been released on CTAN. The previous update dates back to June 27, 2011. LaTeX2e has been stable for a long time, there are mainly maintenance work and bug fixes. The package fixltx2e got an update: loading … Continue reading
Commutative diagrams with crossing edges
When one edge of a graph passes over or under another edge there may be a small gap needed in the drawing of one of those edges. An easy trick is to draw the upper edge two times: first with … Continue reading
Correct hyperlinks by phantomsection
In forums, users frequently complain that some hyperlinks are incorrect; the target is pointing below the section start, not directly at the section or chapter title. This will happen if starred sectioning commands like \chapter* and \section* are used together … Continue reading
Who want’s to have a TeX or LaTeX book of choice?
After a contest on LaTeX-Community.org ended without contributions, because probably most of us have the prize, the LaTeX Companion, already in the shelf, there’s a new idea. It’s for our very active German speaking TeX community. Which book would you … Continue reading
LaTeX Reference in German available for free
At Lehmanns there’s now a LaTeX reference available for free, written by Herbert Voß, in German language: http://www.lehmanns.de/latex-referenz You can order it for free as a soft cover book, or download it as PDF file. On 32 pages the reference … Continue reading
Article contest – win the LaTeX Companion – 10 days left
On LaTeX-Community.org there’s currently a contest: users, who post an article on the web site have the chance to win the LaTeX Companion ebook. A free download code was provided by the author Frank Mittelbach. The ebook version is available … Continue reading
Packt Publishing promotion: 50% discount for all ebooks
Today is the final day of the Packt Publishing promotion, where you can get 50% discount for all ebooks in the store. They got a lot of books in the store, could be a nice opportunity to shop an interesting … Continue reading
