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LyX 2.0.0 beta 2 released
The second beta version of LyX 2.0.0 has been released. Testers of the first beta are encouraged to test the new version. The current stable release for any serious work remains 1.6. For a list of new features have a … Continue reading
First beta of LyX 2.0 released
The first beta release of LyX 2.0.0 has been published today. New features are A new debugging pane showing the progress of compilation, debugging messages and output of external programs An instant preview inset based on the preview package Spell-checking … Continue reading
TeX Live 2010 and MacTeX 2010 released
TeX Live 2010 is available now. Some changes in 2010, like announced in this blog post: pdfLaTeX automatically converts EPS files for inclusion, as already been planned but dismissed for the previous release The execution of a some external commands … Continue reading
MiKTeX 2.9 Beta released
The beta version of MiKTeX 2.9 has been released. Windows 7, Vista, XP (at least SP 3), Server 2003 and 2008 (at least SP 2) are supported, Windows 2000 no longer. LuaTeX has been integrated for the first time and … Continue reading
LaTeX3 news
Issue 4 of the LaTeX3 news has been published today.
Texmaker 2.0 released
The version 2.0 of the free LaTeX editor Texmaker has been released today. The most notable changes: a built-in pdf viewer has been added providing auto-refresh after a compilation, there’s a new option to the quick build command causing that … Continue reading
MiKTeX 2.6 and 2.7 marked for end-of-life
Christian Schenk announced today that the support for MiKTeX 2.6 and MiKTeX 2.7 will end at the end of this year. MiKTeX 2.6/2.7 will be removed from CTAN on January 1st, 2011. So, the last possible date for updating MiKTeX … Continue reading
MiKTeX 2.9 Roadmap
Christian Schenk has published the roadmap for MiKTeX 2.9. According to his blog the beta version of 2.9 shall appear in August and the general release of 2.9 is expected in October 2010. The new version will contain updates of … Continue reading
LyX 1.6.7 released
The version 1.6.7 of LyX has been released. This maintenance release is the first to be supposed to run smoothly with Qt 4.6, that’s why the LyX developers encourage all users and distributors using Qt 4.6 to upgrade to this … Continue reading
CTAN under repair
CTAN users might encounter problems today. Today Robin Fairbairns informed on the ctan-ann mailing list that there’s been an incident on the cambridge node that affected other sites as well. Restoring is in progress (thanks to Robin Fairbairns) but it … Continue reading
iTeX
I’ve read in a post by Jürgen to TeX-D-L tonight: at the TUG 2010 Donald E. Knuth announced the successor to TeX: iTeX. Read more on slashdot and science.slashdot.org. Don’t take it too seriously. Update: the recording of the “earthshaking … Continue reading
Ubuntuusers.de down
The german site ubuntuusers.de ist still down, since yesterday. According to the webteam it’s caused by a hardware failure. A static version of the wiki has been made available: http://www.ubuntuwiki.de/. This way support information is still available, besides search engine … Continue reading
