DANTE 2012: Mitgliederversammlung nächste Woche

Die Frühjahrstagung und gleichzeitig 46. Mitgliederversammlung der deutschsprachigen TeX Anwendervereinigung DANTE e.V. wird vom 7. bis 9. März 2012 an der HTWK Leipzig, der Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Kultur Leipzig stattfinden. Bereits am Dienstag wird es ein abendliches Treffen geben.

Auf dem Programm stehen Vorträge über

  • den Einsatz des hyperref-Pakets zur Gestaltung von PDFs und zur Ausnutzung der Möglichkeiten des Portable Document Formats
  • die Erzeugung von EPUB-Dokumenten aus LaTeX-Quellen
  • Database Publishing mit LuaTeX
  • Programmierung mit LuaTeX
  • biblatex und MlBibTeX
  • TeX Online Communities
  • Anwendungen von Lua-Bibliotheken in TeX-Dokumenten
  • Anforderungen an ein barrierearmes LaTeX
  • das Libertine Open Fonts Projekt
  • aktuellen Stand und Entwicklungen von TeX
  • Referenzen mit LaTeX
  • Generieren von Animationen
  • OpenType- und TrueType-Schriften für Text und Mathematik mit XeTeX und LuaTeX
  • LaTeX in der akademischen Ausbildung
  • Bild- und Briefautomation mit LaTeX

Für mehr Information bezüglich Ort und Anfahrt, Anmeldung, Unterkunft und Tagungsprogramm siehe die Ankündigung auf der DANTE Webseite.

Auch ich werde teilnehmen und am Freitag einen Vortrag halten, wie im Programm geplant.


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03. March 2012 by stefan
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DANTE 2012: German language TeX users meeting next week

The 46th general meeting of the German language TeX users group DANTE e.V. will be held from March 7 to March 9, 2012, at the HTWK Leipzig, the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. There will be an evening meeting already on Tuesday, March 6 in the evening.

The program will include talks about

  • Using hyperref for designing PDF documents and using the capabilities of the Portable Document Format
  • Producing EPUB from LaTeX sources
  • Database publishing with LuaTeX
  • Programming with LuaTeX
  • biblatex und MlBibTeX
  • TeX Online Communities
  • Using Lua libraries within TeX documents
  • Producing accessible PDF documents with TeX
  • The status of the Libertine Open Fonts Projekt
  • Current TeX status and developments
  • Creating cross-references with LaTeX
  • Producing animations
  • OpenType and TrueType fonts for text and math with XeTeX and LuaTeX
  • Using LaTeX in academic education
  • Design and production of letter envelopes and photo books

For more information concerning location, registration, accommodation and program visit the announcement on the DANTE homepage.

I will go to this meeting and I will give a presentation on Friday, as it’s scheduled in the meeting program.


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03. March 2012 by stefan
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TeXmaker 3.3 released

TeXmaker version 3.3 has been released today. Some of the new features, from the ChangeLog file, to 3.2.2:

  • An unlimited number of tags can be defined via a new panel.
  • The integrated PDF viewer provides spell checking.
  • Now the main biblatex entries can be inserted via the bibliography menu.
  • command{} is now displayed before command*{} in the auto completion.
  • More hard coded colors, dark desktop themes can be used.
  • The editor provides an overwrite mode.

Bad highlighting with end{picture} has been fixed. The complete ChangeLog can be found here. Click here for downloading versions for Linux, Mac OS X or Windows or source files.

26. February 2012 by stefan
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TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 4 erschienen

Die dritte Alpha-Version des kommenden TeXnicCenter 2.0 ist veröffentlicht worden. Da diese Version noch in der Alpha-Phase ist, ist sie ist noch nicht stabil und kann abstürzen. Wie die vorigen Alpha-Versionen auch, kann diese Vorabversion von 2.0 neben TeXnicCenter Version 1.0 verwendet werden, wenn man beide in unterschiedliche Verzeichnisse installiert hat.

Einige der Neuerungen:

  • Neue Datei-Ansicht mit Unterstützung für TortoiseSVN und ähnliche Tools.
  • Präprozessoren werden nun beim Übersetzen unterstützt.
  • Der Editor kennt nun viel mehr Befehle und Optionen. Zum Beispiel ist nun Mehrfach-Auswahl möglich.
  • Dateiname-Erweiterungen, die durch TeXnicCenter verwaltet werden, können im Programm ausgewählt werden.
  • Native 64 bit Unterstützung.
  • Man kann (wieder) durch die Dokumente browsen in Reihenfolge der letzten Nutzung. Zudem wurde ein lange bestehendes Problem mit Tastenkürzeln mit der Alt-Taste behoben.

Für die lange Liste der Änderungen und Korrekturen, siehe die Ankündigung von Tino Weinkauf und dem TeXnicCenter Team, auch auf LaTeX-Community.org veröffentlicht: TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 4.


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01. February 2012 by stefan
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TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 4 released

The fourth Alpha version of the upcoming TeXnicCenter 2.0 has been released. As it’s still alpha, it is not stable, it may crash and it’s intended for testing only. It can be used alongside TeXnicCenter Version 1.0, both can be used when installed in different directories, like the previous alpha versions.

Some of the changes:

  • Completely new File View with support for TortoiseSVN and similar tools.
  • Preprocessors are now supported when building the output.
  • The editor knows much more commands and options now. For example, multiple selections are now possible.
  • File extensions managed by TeXnicCenter can be chosen through the ‘Default Programs’ control panel.
  • Native 64 bit support.
  • It is (again) possible to cycle through the documents in Most-Recently-Used order. Also, a long-standing issue with shortcuts using the Alt key has been fixed.

For the long list of changes and fixes, have a look at the announcement by Tino Weinkauf and the TeXnicCenter Team, also posted on LaTeX-Community.org: TeXnicCenter 2.0 Alpha 4.


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01. February 2012 by stefan
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TeXmaker 3.2.2 released

TeXmaker version 3.2.2 has been released today. New features, from the ChangeLog file, to 3.2.1:

  • Block selection mode has been added (alt+mouse).
  • The shortcuts of the “Tool” and “Edit” menus can now be modified.
  • While using the “New by copying an existing file” command, the directory of the file is now stored.
  • The list of asymptote and tikz tags has been completed.
  • Users can now hide the pstricks/metapost/tikz/asymptote icons in the structure panels by clicking on the tool bar.
  • Users can now hide some commands in the left tool bar of the editor.
  • The “underline” tag is replaced by the “emphasis” tag in the left toolbar of the editor.
  • If errors are detected, the log file is now displayed even if the “quick build” command is not used.
  • After setting a document as “master”, the structure and the bibliography are rescanned.

3.2.1 to 3.2:

  • Faster syntax highlighting and structure checking
  • An additional parameter (#) for the current file name is available for the commands (required for pdf synchronization with the sumatra pdf viewer).
  • The log panel can now be closed directly with the escape key.

Several bugs have been fixed. The complete ChangeLog can be found here. Click here for downloading versions for Linux, Mac OS X or Windows or source files.

12. January 2012 by stefan
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Left subscripts and superscripts

A quick way to set subscripts and superscripts to the left side is just to write ^ and _ before and perhaps to correct the space between:

^T_1!!A_1^T

Source on mathurl.com and Output:   left subscript superscript quickly

04. January 2012 by stefan
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TeXmaker 3.2 released

The version 3.2 of the free cross-platform LaTeX editor TeXmaker has been released today, read on LaTeX-community.org. New features, cited from the ChangeLog file:

  • block selection mode has been added (alt+mouse)
  • a “search in folders” dialog has been added
  • the settings file can now be saved, deleted or loaded
  • all the colors for the syntax highlighting can now be changed (a preconfigured dark theme is available)
  • graphics environments and .asy files have their own syntax highlighting mode
  • a selected piece of text can now be surrounded by french/german quotes (these quotes has been added to the “LaTeX” menu and to the completion)
  • a panel can be added in the structure view to show the list of opened files (“View” menu)
  • the Texdoc tool can be launched directly via the Help menu (users can select the name of the environment before calling Texdoc)
  • the list of label and bibliography items can now be used to customize the completion
  • the “recent files” list can now be cleaned
  • the shortcuts of some commands can now be changed (“switching between the editor and the pdf viewer”, “french/german quotes”, “next/previous document”,…)
  • *.asy files can now be opened directly without using the “all files” filter
  • *.jpeg has been added to the list of the “includegraphics wizard”
  • .thm and .pre files are now deleted while using the “clean” command
  • windows and mac versions are now compiled with Qt 4.8 and poppler 0.18.2
  • a version compiled on macosx lion is now available
  • the version number is now added to the info.plist file (macosx)

Further several bugs have been fixed. The complete ChangeLog can be found here. Click here for downloading versions for Linux, Mac OS X or Windows or source files.

22. December 2011 by stefan
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@TeXgallery on Twitter

Koch snowflake, TeXgallery Twitter icon
TeXample.net is now on Twitter. TeXample.net is a web site dedicated to TeX and related software, currently it’s focussed on collecting and showing TikZ examples.

Follow @TeXgallery to read about new contributions and site features.

Four TikZ examples have been added this week, more are planned, as well as new site features. Twitter will inform about smaller updates, blog posts about bigger changes.

The @TeXgallery Twitter logo is a Koch snowflake, which can be produced using TikZ:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{lindenmayersystems}
\usetikzlibrary[shadings]
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\shadedraw[shading=color wheel] 
  [l-system={rule set={F -> F-F++F-F}, step=2pt, angle=60,
   axiom=F++F++F, order=4}] lindenmayer system -- cycle;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

This is also one of the recently added examples.

22. December 2011 by stefan
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LyX 2.0.2 veröffentlicht

Die Version 2.0.2 von LyX ist erschienen. Neue und verbesserte Features sind:

  • Unterstützung von CTEX Dokumentklassen
  • Überarbeitete Unterstützung der neuesten Versionen der Springer-Dokumentklassen svjour3, svmono und svmult
  • R-Code von Sweave-Dokumenten kann jetzt exportiert werden
  • Dokument-Farbeinstellungen werden nun durch XHTML verstanden
  • tex2lyx wurde erheblich verbessert und unterstützt jetzt Umwandlung von horizontalen Linien, Phantom-Spaces, Hyperlinks, unterstrichenem und durchgestrichenem Text, gedrehten und Text-umflossenen Gleitobjekten, Subfloats, rahmenlose Boxen und die Schriftpakete beraserif, ccfonts, chancery, fourier und utopia
  • Die Cursor-Bewegung ist jetzt schneller, wenn Inline-Autovervollständigung in Mathematik aktiviert ist
  • Verbesserte Archivierung , nun werden auch externe Dateien einbezogen, die in ERT im Dokumentkörper referenziert werden, wie z.B. durch input or insertgraphics

Diese Version behebt viele Fehler, daher ist ein Update empfehlenswert.

Für weitere Informationen und Download siehe:


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01. December 2011 by stefan
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LyX 2.0.2 released

The maintenance release 2.0.2 of LyX has been published. New and updated features are:

  • Support for CTEX document classes
  • Revised support for the latest versions of the Springer document classes svjour3, svmono and svmult
  • R code from a Sweave-enabled document can now be exported
  • Document color settings are now respected by XHTML export
  • tex2lyx has been improved and now supports conversion of horizontal lines, phantom spaces, hyperlinks, underlined and striked out text, rotated and wrapped floats, subfloats, frameless boxes and the font packages beraserif, ccfonts, chancery, fourier, and utopia
  • Cursor movement is faster now when inline completion has been enabled in math
  • Improved archive feature , now also external files referenced in ERT in the document body, such as by input or insertgraphics, are included

This release fixes many bugs, that’s why it’s recommended to update to this version.

For further information and download visit:


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01. December 2011 by stefan
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Berichte von der TUG 2011

Auf tex.blogoverflow.com finden sich tägliche Berichte zur TeX Users Group Konferenz 2011:

Jetzt auch online: die Präsentation zu TeX Online Communities.

23. October 2011 by stefan
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