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WinShell 3.31 Beta released
Version 3.31 Beta of the TeX/LaTeX-IDE WinShell has been released by Ingo H. de Boer today. This editor runs on Windows systems and provides project management, syntax highlighting, spell checking, BibTeX support, Unicode support, different toolbars and configuration options. Fixes … Continue reading
Perl 5.11 now available
The release of Perl 5.11.0 has been published after more than two years of development by the community of Perl developers. The version 5.11.0 is a development release that has been made available in order to test and to develop … 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
MiKTeX 2.8 released
The version 2.8 of the Windows LaTeX Distribution MiKTeX has been released on September 1, 2009. Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, Server 2003 and 2008 are supported. It’s coming with a portable edition that makes it possible to run MiKTeX … Continue reading
Kile 2.1beta2 released
The second beta version of the LaTeX editor Kile has been released on August 23rd. It’s intended for testing but it’s not recommended for production. It brings some fixes to 2.1beta1: utf8 related default encoding settings fixed, the ALT+p shortcut … Continue reading
LyX 1.6.4 released
The maintenance release 1.6.4 of LyX has been published on August 24th. Beside minor improvements it fixes some problems by a workaround to avoid crashes with recent Qt versions, fixes to bugs that could result in data loss, stability improvements, … Continue reading
New packages and updates on CTAN in July
New packages on CTAN in July: boolexpr – evaluation of boolean expressions in a purely expandable way germkorr – changes kerning for german quotation marks, for instance brings some letters like T nearer to german quotes fig4latex – simplifies management … Continue reading
Testing TeX Live 2009
A test version of TeX Live 2009 has been released. The developer team writes: “We greatly appreciate any testing of TeX Live before the official release. The more people who do so, the better the final release will be. It … Continue reading
Texmaker 1.9.2 released
The version 1.9.2 of the free LaTeX editor Texmaker has been released today. Changes are: a new panel “favorite symbols”, previous sessions can be restored, words can be selected by SHIFT+LeftArrow and SHIFT+RightArrow again, a bugfix for Mac OS X … 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
New monospaced font on CTAN: Inconsolata
The Inconsolata font package has been released on CTAN yesterday. Inconsolata is a monospaced (“typewriter”) font designed for code listings and the like by Raph Levien. It’s supporting several encodings including T1, OT1 and LY1. The font can be used … Continue reading
LyX 1.6.3 released
The maintenance release 1.6.3 of LyX has been published yesterday. Highlights of this release: tex2lyx has been improved and is now able to read files in all LaTeX supported encodings, performance problems have been resolved, LyX shows new features provided … Continue reading
