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Aligned equations inside of a TikZ node
Lukasz Lew asked on TeX.SX: How can I create a tree node with aligned math equations inside? \begin{align} \end{align} doesn’t work and \begin{minipage}{100} \begin{align} … \end{align} \end{minipage} gives a lot of margin and I don’t want to manually tune. \nodepart … Continue reading
More on TikZ tables
At present I don’t have much time for the blog because of my work, but I keep on reading and answering questions and comments. For instance since I’ve noticed a link by Uwe to a table related topic and because … Continue reading
Geometry package updated
Hideo Umeki has published the version 5.1 of the geometry package. 5.1 brings just a bugfix for the pass option, but the version 5, released a few days earlier on Feb 12th, provides some new and very useful features: The … Continue reading
REVTeX 4.1 Released
The first update to REVTeX since 2001 has been released yesterday, today it’s been uploaded to CTAN. REVTeX 4.1 is a set of LaTeX2e macro packages. It is especially well-suited for preparing manuscripts for submission to the journals of the … Continue reading
Overview of the dtx format
Joseph Wright has published a post giving an overview of the dtx format on his blog Some TeX Developments. It’s the first post of a small series dealing with that LaTeX package format.
match_parens: new tool to check parenthesis matching
The script match_parens has been uploaded to CTAN today. This program has been written by Wybo Dekker to assist the user in checking parenthesis (and braces, brackets) balancing in documents, the characters {}[]()<> are supported. It’s written in Ruby, though … Continue reading
New packages and updates on CTAN in September
New packages on CTAN in September 2009: latex-make – tools to simplify the compilation of LaTeX documents rangen – generation of random integers, rational numbers and decimal numbers eqexam – a LaTeX package for writing exams, tests, quizzes, homework assignments, … Continue reading
Evince für Windows verfügbar
Der freie Dokumentbetrachter Evince ist nun auch für Windows-Systeme verfügbar. Das Entwicklerteam stellte eine msi Installations-Datei zusammen mit der neuen Version 2.28.0 bereit. Evince ist der Standard-pdf-Betrachter für die GNOME-Umgebung, außer pdf kann Evince auch postscript, djvu, tiff und dvi-Dokumente … Continue reading
Evince available for Windows
The free document viewer Evince is now available for Windows operating systems. The developer team provided an msi installer file together with the new release 2.28.0. Evince is the standard pdf viewer for the GNOME desktop environment, beside pdf it’s … Continue reading
Software Freedom Day 2009
Today is the Software Freedom Day 2009. This event is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software with the goal to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality free and open source software … Continue reading
CTAN will drop tools
Today Jim Hefferon announced on the CTAN mailing list that CTAN will not continue to provide the tools directory. The material contained therein is in no way TeX related, nearly all those programs are archiving software like arj, bzip2, compress, … Continue reading
Automatically counting table rows
I’ve just read the blog post Automatic Table Row Numbers in LaTeX by Alexander O’Connor, while reading it came to my mind how to use a feature of the array package to automatize such tasks. The array syntax >{command} allows … Continue reading
