Category Archives for LaTeX General
TeX News of August
This month I’ve got few time due to much work, so I did not write much. So I will give a short summary what I think was interesting in the TeX world this month. Textmate 2 is now Open Source … Continue reading
LaTeX Templates
Velimir just published an article about LaTeX templates on LaTeX-Community.org. In this article, he explains benefits of using templates, and he introduces his site www.LaTeXTemplates.com, which collects templates and publishes it under a Creative Commons license. Some benefits of using … Continue reading
Line width in LaTeX
Did you ever wonder why there are several (La)TeX lengths for the width of the current line of our text? In different situations, such as writing within a table, a minipage, a list or common body text in one or … Continue reading
LaTeX Beginner’s Guide published
The LaTeX Beginner’s Guide has been published today. This book is a practical introduction to LaTeX with a lot of step-by-step examples. It guides the reader through typesetting with LaTeX, from installation and basic usage to text formatting and to … Continue reading
New version of LaTeX2e released
Karl Berry announced on the TeX Live mailing list today that the new version 2009/09/24 of LaTeX2e has been released by the LaTeX Project team. The changed have been incorporated into TeX Live and will be available with the pretest … Continue reading
New version 3.19 of UK TeX FAQ
Robin Fairbairns has released a new version of the famous UK TeX FAQ. v3.19 contains 10 new answers to frequently asked questions: “Modern” graphics file names Key-value input for macros and package options Non-letters in macro names Using “old-style” figures … Continue reading
Full Justification: pdfLaTeX vs. LaTeX
Once in a while there are discussions if pdfLaTeX would be preferable to LaTeX. There are some reasons, here I will just point out the effect of the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX, in particular font expansion and character protrusion. Using … Continue reading
How to get rid of those beamer warnings
Many users of the beamer class are irritated by several beamer warnings at every compiler run that are not caused by themselves, I’m referring to the beamer version 3.07. Those warnings are not really important, but it’s a good habit … Continue reading
