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goLaTeX.de is back online
The German LaTeX forum goLaTeX.de has been inaccessible since one week, from May 28 on. Today it’s available again, at last. There was a technical problem that the provider didn’t solve quickly. The forum will stay alive.
Texmaker 1.9 released
The version 1.9 of the free LaTeX IDE Texmaker has been released today and comes with the following changes: inline spell checking, bi-directional support, a new modern interface, asymptote support, the interface language can be changed via the “Options” menu, … Continue reading
Fix: enumitem 2.2 released
If you are using the handy package enumitem in version 2.1 or earlier you could consider to update it. The author Javier Bezos announced v2.2: “This release fixes a bug in some description styles (the first label in the first … Continue reading
MiKTeX will become portable
Christian Schenk announced on April 2nd that he’s planning to release a portable MiKTeX edition later this year. The portable edition will allow you to run MiKTeX from a flash drive: you could carry MiKTeX on a portable drive for … Continue reading
LaTeX Community launched new features and new design
Exactly 2 years after LaTeX-Community.org has gone online its forum has got a new fresh look and the community site is providing new features for its members and users. In a short summary: Know How section, intended to contain categorized … Continue reading
New package: zwpagelayout
On December 26th Zdenêk Wagner has released the zwpagelayout package, dealing with page layout in general, like the well known geometry package. It may not provide as many features as geometry but it brings additional tools, for instance it’s supporting … Continue reading
WinShell 3.30 released
The version 3.30 of WinShell has been released on Monday this week. WinShell is a LaTeX Editor with Unicode support, spellchecking (Hunspell), project environment, configurable toolbars, syntax highlighting and provides many more features. Some the new features of the version … Continue reading
German LaTeX wiki launched
The German LaTeX site goLaTeX.de has opened its wiki, as stated by J. Aehling yesterday evening. LaTeX users are invited to contribute. The long-term objective is to provide a language reference, useful tips and docs and answers to frequently asked … Continue reading
New package: xstring
xstring by Christian Telllechea has been released today. The package provides macros for the manipulation of strings. Some Features: tests, if one string is contained in another string (n times), extraction of substrings in several ways, substitution of some or … Continue reading
TeXnicCenter 1 Beta 7.50 released
Today version 1 Beta 7.50 of TeXnicCenter has been released. Major new features of this release are enhancement of autocompletion, the possibility to create a new file from selected text for inclusion by input{} or include{} ore user defined, the … Continue reading
New TikZ package: tikz-inet
The today released package tikz-inet extends TikZ with commands for drawing interaction nets. At least Version 2.0 of pgf/TikZ is required. For imformation about interaction nets see “Interaction Nets” by Y.Lafont, in POPL’90, 95-108 or for example the Diploma of … Continue reading
Kile under Windows
Recently I got to know that the very recommendable integrated LaTeX environment Kile can be used on Windows too by installing andLinux, an Ubuntu Linux Version running natively inside Windows, still in the beta state. Chris has written a HowTo … Continue reading
