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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
A new community TeX blog
Again some quiet weeks on my blog. If some people would blog together, there would be active blog life even if somebody would temporarily be too busy with other things. So I liked Patricks idea very much, to set up … Continue reading
TeX news and articles
It has been a bit quiet here for some weeks. I got a son in February, when my little daugher was not much more than 1 year old, both keep us pretty busy at home. So after my full time … Continue reading
