Category Archives for Uncategorized
Ubuntu 8.10 “Intrepid Ibex” Release Party
On October 30, 2008 the version 8.10 of Ubuntu Linux will be released. The user group Ubuntu Berlin is inviting to the Intrepid Ibex Release Party: The party in the c-base Berlin will start on November 1, 2008, 4pm, admission … Continue reading
TikZ: chains with labeled edges
These days I wanted to include some commutative diagrams in a math text. There are already packages designed for this purpose, like amscd and xy-pic. I’ve used xy-pic before and didn’t like its usability and output much. The most recent … Continue reading
Fancy chapter headings with TikZ
A question on LaTeX-Community.org inspired me to try pgf/TikZ together with titlesec to produce fancy chapter headings. The result is this small compilable demonstration example: \documentclass[svgnames]{report} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{kpfonts} \usepackage[explicit]{titlesec} \newcommand*\chapterlabel{} \titleformat{\chapter} {\gdef\chapterlabel{} \normalfont\sffamily\Huge\bfseries\scshape} {\gdef\chapterlabel{\thechapter\ }}{0pt} {\begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture,overlay] \node[yshift=-3cm] at (current … Continue reading
TeXnicCenter: new homepage design
The TeXnicCenter homepage has got a new design, as Sven announced today in the LaTeX Community Forum. Now it has a more modern look and provides better access to its contents. TeXnicCenter is an integrated development environment for LaTeX, running … Continue reading
Software Freedom Day 2008
The Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software. The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality free and open source software in education, … Continue reading
Writing scientific documents using LaTeX
Today it has been announced that a new paper “Writing scientific documents using LaTeX” by Andrew J. Bennieston has been uploaded to CTAN, an introduction on 13 pages. I took a brief glimpse at this paper. Nice to have another … Continue reading
Kpfonts 2.3 released
The version 2.3 of the font package kpfonts has been released on CTAN as announced today over the ctan-ann mailing list. Kpfonts provide an extensive set of fonts for LaTeX including roman, sans-serif, monospaced and math symbol fonts in regular … Continue reading
Paper sizes with pdfTeX
I’m frequently noticing questions regarding problems with paper size and pdfLaTeX, for instance Bug 215561 and Bug 244043 on Launchpad, yesterday on mrunix.de and also yesterday on matheplanet.com. If you manually change \paperwidth or \paperheight or use the landscape option … Continue reading
TeX Live 2008 released
TeX Live 2008 is now officially released. This information was posted by Karl Berry to comp.text.tex yesterday, though it’s been available for download since some days already. In this version the underlying package infrastructure has been redesigned and reimplemented, it … Continue reading
TikZ: shaded cube
With just a few lines of code you can create a drawing of a cube with a 3D impression, though if it’s not really perspective or raytraced: \begin{tikzpicture}[on grid] \shade[yslant=-0.5,right color=gray!10, left color=black!50] (0,0) rectangle +(3,3); \draw[yslant=-0.5] (0,0) grid (3,3); … Continue reading
pgf/TikZ 3D drawings
Today Tomek posted very impressive 3D drawings made with pgf/TikZ in the LaTeX Community Forum. Here’s one of the drawings showing a cylindrical projection: More examples and their complete sourcecode by Tomasz M. Trzeciak can be found in the corresponding … Continue reading
Jpgfdraw example
Here’s an example illustration made with Jpgfdraw following a drawing in Singer/Thorpe Lecture Notes in Elementary Topology and Geometry, I made freehand it to illustrate homotopy of paths in my notes. Screenshot: Output in pdf format: homotopy.pdf Jpgfdraw binary file: … Continue reading
