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TexMakerX 1.8.1 available
The second version of TexMakerX v1.8.1 has been released as the author Benito van der Zander announced on mrunix.de today. TexMakerX is a fork of the LaTeX editor Texmaker, also licensed under the GPL and running on Windows, Unix/Linux, BSD … Continue reading
Just another mirror for LaTeX Hypertext Help
Sometimes when I’m posting advice and code in LaTeX forums I’m linking used commands to a LaTeX reference site. Then there’s no need to explain a command and its syntax further because the reader could just click on it to … Continue reading
Talk: Creation of extensive documents ready for printing with TeX/LaTeX
Tomorrow on April 29th, 2009, the author Dr. Herbert Voss will give a talk in the specialist bookshop Lehmanns in Hamburg, Kurze Muehren 6. This talk will be held in German and it’s called “Erstellung grosser, druckreifer Dokumente mit TeX/LaTeX“. … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” released
Ubuntu 9.04 Desktop, Server and Netbook editions have been released today. The new version is starting faster, is now supporting the ext4 file system and comes with a lot of software updates. Regarding its new features features have a look … Continue reading
LaTeX news of the past few days
New packages on CTAN: alterqcm – a LaTeX2e package for making Multiple Choices Questionnaires in a table with two columns diagmac2 – John Reynolds’s diagram macros modified to allow arbitrary line slopes, requiring pict2e texdirflatten – a Perl script parsing … Continue reading
Eeebuntu / Ubuntu Linux on the Asus Eee PC S101
Last weekend I’ve got an Eee PC S101, now I’ve got time to test it: I’m writing some notes here sharing the first experience with the S101 and useful links for installation. After delivery I’ve upgraded the netbook to 2 … Continue reading
New package totcount: final counter values
If you need for instance to display page numbers in a way like “page X of Y”, there are packages like totpages and lastpage helping to achieve that. The today released package totcount allows to use the last (usually maximal) … Continue reading
Periodic Table of Typefaces
Reading Jürgen Fenns blog TeX & Friends I stumbled across a very nice work by Cam: inspired by the Periodic Table of Elements he created a Periodic Table of Typefaces listing 100 of the most popular and influential typefaces today … Continue reading
LEd’s future plans
The developer of the freely available LaTeX Editor LEd have announced a change of its distribution model. From now on they want to maintain a free version of the LEd like today but provide further features with nonfree plugins. Currently … Continue reading
Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Release Party
On April 23, 2009 the version 9.04 of Ubuntu Linux will be released. The user group Ubuntu Berlin is inviting to the Jaunty Jackalope Release Party: The party in the c-base Berlin will start on April 25, 2009, 4pm, admission … Continue reading
Adobe Reader 9.1 for Linux released
When the version 9 of the Adobe Reader was released last years summer, Adobe did not publish a Linux version. Now the version 9.1 of the reader has been relased for Linux and Solaris, including an important security patch, version … Continue reading
Bugfix of the rotating package
Robin Fairbairns has released the version 2.16a (2009/03/28) of the rotating package, there he has corrected a bug introduced in v2.16 (2009/03/16). Using 2.16 you could get the error message ! A <box> was supposed to be here. <to be … Continue reading
