Category Archives for LaTeX General
Supporting users on LaTeX.org
I’m on a carribbean cruise for three weeks and don’t have so much time as before for answering questions on LaTeX.org. Especially since I actually do work here, on improving the WiFi onboard the cruise ship. It would be great … Continue reading
LaTeX \pagecolor broken
With current LaTeX (TL 2017) \pagecolor{…} does not work. According to the tex-live mailing list, it can by fixed by \makeatletter \edef\GPT at pagecolortrue{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolortrue}} \edef\GPT at pagecolorfalse{\global\unexpanded\expandafter{\GPT at pagecolorfalse}} \makeatother The \newif has been changed with an overlooked … Continue reading
Reading LaTeX articles
Yesterday I read the LaTeX2e-News of April 2017. At first I tried it using a smart phone, then with a tablet. The news don’t appear as text on the project’s web site, there’s just a link. It has to be … Continue reading
LaTeX2e News
This month saw a new release of LaTeX2e. The following has been changed or added: In addition to the yyyy/mm/dd date format, LaTeX now accepts ISO 8601 format date strings in the date argument of \ProvidesPackage , \usepackage , etc. … Continue reading
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
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
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
Cooperation of LaTeX-Community.org and writeLaTeX.com
Since today, LaTeX-Community.org readers can use an online LaTeX compiler in the forum, provided by writeLaTeX.com, an online collaborative LaTeX editor with integrated rapid preview. By a single click on a link above a code box, the reader will land … Continue reading
