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Ubuntu Linux 8.04 amd64 on Packard Bell imax 9000
The mainboard of my Shuttle ZEN XPC (ST62K) got broken recently, so I decided to look for a replacement. A big German chain of consumer electronics stores launched a campaign for just two days, I could not resist the temptation … Continue reading
blowup: new package for scaling pages
Today CTAN Announcements informed that the package blowup has been released. It can be used to upscale or downscale all pages of a document. For a first test I created this short a5paper document: \documentclass[pdftex,a5paper,10pt]{article} \usepackage[english]{babel} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{hyperref} \begin{document} \tableofcontents … Continue reading
Hyphenation patterns in UTF-8 released
The package hyph-utf8 has been released today. It contains hyphenation patterns that have been converted into UTF-8, addressing the need for appropriate patterns by native UTF-8 engines such as XeTeX. For more information see the README file on its location … Continue reading
Update of the UK TeX FAQ to v3.18
The version 3.18 of the english TeX Frequently Asked Questions has been released. New subjects are: Adobe Reader messing with print size Prebuilt installation files on the archive Installing using preformatted ZIP files Getting the right paper geometry from (La)TeX … Continue reading
Modifying plain page style
In documents using the book or report class the first page of a chapter will have the page style plain, the page number will appear at the bottom of the page. If you want to remove the number you could … Continue reading
Hack: change starred command into unstarred
Some packages like nomencl, glossary and environments like thebibliography in standard LaTeX classes use the starred sectioning forms \chapter* and \section*. Even if they provide an option to let them added to the table of contents it may be required … Continue reading
Character tables of fonts
If you are looking for a certain symbol or its number and you already know the font name, the fonttable package prints its character table for you. You could compile this small example, printing the table of the psyr font: … Continue reading
Special LaTeX characters
Besides the common upper- and lowercase letters, digits and punctuation characters, that can simply by typed with the editor, some characters are reserved for LaTeX commands. They cannot be used directly in the source. Usually they can be printed if … Continue reading
New webservice: mathurl.com
On June 13 2008 jtin informed in the LaTeX Community Forum that he started a new webservice: mathurl.com. This site turns standard LaTeX input with amsmath extensions into png images that can be embedded other websites. Permanent links to LaTeX … Continue reading
Starting chapters on even-numbered pages
In documents using the book class chapters start by default on a right-hand, odd-numbered page (recto page), corresponding to option openright. This may be changed by specifying the option openany to use the next available page, which is set default … Continue reading
Prevent floating of figures or tables
Often images are embedded using the figure environment, they can get a caption, a label for reference and they will get numbered and appear in the list of figures. Figure environments are intended to float, but sometimes it is needed … Continue reading
Prevent page breaks
A page break directly after a first item of a itemize oder enumerate environment or other lists may be annoying. How to prevent that? A common way to prevent a page break is to use a minipage (or samepage) environment, … Continue reading
