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LaTeX Microblogs
On LaTeX-Community.org I’ve read that the Identi.ca microblogging service provides blogs/groups about (La)TeX related subjects too: latex textsatz (in German) typesetting typography Links to those groups were provided by Thorsten on LC.
Tutorial: Commutative Diagrams using TikZ
In previous posts I’ve shown some examples how the TikZ graphics package could be used to draw mathematical diagrams like exact sequences and commutative diagrams. Felix Lenders has written a tutorial called Commutative Diagrams using TikZ dealing with this subject … Continue reading
LaTeX-Award on Matheplanet.com
The big german math portal Matheplanet.com has presented its 7th annual awards yesterday evening, Jan 25th. Those awards honor the efforts of community members who are providing help, knowledge, work and time to all of the Matheplanet users. More than … Continue reading
Write and Win
If you want to share your LaTeX knowledge you could write an article for the Know How Articles Section of the LaTeX Community Forum. The author who has written the best rated article until the end of March will receive … Continue reading
Math formulas and arrows with TikZ
In the Art of Problem Solving Forum somebody asked for help in creating a construction for proofs and demonstrations in Logic by LaTeX commands. Math expressions should be aligned, some connected by arrows going vertically and horizontally. Regarding arrows I … Continue reading
New package: pdfcomment
Though pdflatex provides the command pdfannot for pdf annotations it is somehow complicated to use. The new package pdfcomment offers a user-friendly way to insert comments/ annotations into pdf files. pdfcomment requires the packages hyperref, xkeyval, ifpdf, marginnote and packages … Continue reading
TeXnicCenter 1.0 RC is out
The first candidate for TeXnicCenter 1.0 has been released as announced yesterday. It’s expected to be more stable than the beta release. Visit its download page to get it.
TeXblog related news
Some weeks ago I began to work as IT Technician onboard of a passenger ship. I’ve already worked some years as IT Administrator on a ship (for a different company) and also in the position of the IT Communication Officer … Continue reading
Texmaker 1.8 released
The today released version 1.8 brings the following changes: faster spell checker, based on a more recent hunspell version, inverse search will no more launch a new instance of Texmaker because now it can be started only once per user, … Continue reading
KOMA-Script 3 available
The new version KOMA-Script 3 by Markus Kohm et al. has been released today. Some of the new features are: possibility to change almost all settings, even the paper or font size, after loading the class and even after begin{document}, … Continue reading
Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” released
On Oct 30 2008 the Ubuntu team announced the release of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server. You can read about its features in the press release. To download Ubuntu 8.10, or obtain CDs, see: Get Ubuntu. For instructions on upgrading … Continue reading
Using \expandafter for macro redefinitions
Sometimes I want to redefine a macro of a class or package but want to use its original definition. Instead of copy&paste one could use the original macro directly: come up with a new macro, ensure that it’s not defined … Continue reading
