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Ausgehend von Vorlage für Gesprächsprotokolle hat mir Stefan Wollny, ein Leser des Blogs, eine schicke Vorlage für Jour Fixe Protokolle geschickt. Hier die Vorlage_Jour-Fix-Protokoll PDF-Datei, hier der Quellcode: %% basierend auf http://uweziegenhagen.de/?p=1109 %% gefunden am 15.03.2013 %% %% \PassOptionsToPackage{table}{xcolor} % Notwendig, damit die Zeilen-Colorierung funktioniert \documentclass[]{scrartcl} \usepackage{palatino,url} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Vor {inputenc}! http://uweziegenhagen.de/?p=1644 \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} % in [...]
Shortly after Don Knuth announced TeX 3.0 I gave a paper analyzing TeX's abilities as a typesetting engine. The abstract back then said: Now it is time, after ten years' experience, to step back and consider whether or not TeX 3.0 is an adequate answer to the typesetting requirements of the nineties. Output produced by TeX has higher standards than output generated automatically by most other typesetting systems. Therefore, in this paper we will focus on the quality standards set by typographers for hand-typeset documents and ask to what extent they are achieved by TeX. Limitations of TeX's algorithms are analyzed; and missing features as well as new concepts are outlined. Now—two decades later—it is time to take another look and see what has been achieved since then, and perhaps more importantly, what can be achieved now with computer power having multiplied by a huge factor and, last but not least, by the arrival of a number of successors to TeX that have lifted some of the limitations identified back then.
I was recently asked if there is a way to reverse the numbering of chapters in a report from n to 1. I didn’t find an easy way to do it which is why I decided to write a short post. Here is the minimal example used to produce the above output. I will explain [...]
It has been a bit quiet here for some weeks. I got a son in February, when my little daugher was not much more than 1 year old, both keep us pretty busy at home. So after my full time job I’m not so often at the computer. However, I still post about TeX news, answer [...]
Today, Karl Berry published details of the release plan of TeX Live 2013. This comprehensive TeX and LaTeX system is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix systems. While its packages are constantly updated, there's currently an annual release cycle for the main distribution.
In May 2012, Javier Bezos wrote the following message to the LaTeX-L mailing list: Babel gets back on track and it is again actively maintained. The goals are mainly to fix bugs, to make it compatible with XeTeX and LuaTeX (as far as possible), and perhaps to add some minor new features (provided they are backward compatible). No attempt will be done to take full advantage of the features provided by XeTeX and LuaTeX, which would require a completely new core (as for example polyglossia or as part of LaTeX3). In November of that year, a new alpha release was uploaded to CTAN, and in January 2013 a beta release was made. In the change notes to the beta, Javier wrote: I hope the final version will be available by March/April. Well, as of a few days ago, version 3.9b of babel is now available on CTAN. It’s been around five years since the last update by Johannes Braams, who was babel’s original developer and who maintained it for many years, pre-dating my involvement with the TeX world. (Indeed, Javier himself has been a contributor to the LaTeX community longer than I.) Babel has had a bit of a funny ...
Elaborating plotted data and drawing conclusions from them in a (scientific) report can be cumbersome and often takes way too many words than necessary. Following the old saying ‘a picture is worth a thousand words‘, this post describes how to highlight certain areas in a TikZ plot. You’ll be able to adjust the color of the highlighted area, its layerRead more
I found out this online service. Anyone is currently using it? Please drop your comment here. I currently still prefers github for LaTeX collaboration - or mercurial, subversion. But somehow you may have specific reason for using any cloud based LaTeX editor/collaboration service.
We shall see some tricks: putting two itemizations on the same line, using footnotes in boxes, dealing with PDF cut-and-paste and search functionalities, distinctive \overline, referring to labels by long names. We will then discuss some problems people often face when dealing with many figures, and, more generally, floats. Finally, we will deal with a Beamer scheme which aims at using a single file for both a presentation, and the related report.
Frank's paper on "E-TeX: Guidelines for Future TeX Extensions --- revisited" from the 2012 TUG in Boston is going to be published in the next TUGboat. The pdf version of the paper has been now added to the site.
Je continue mes réflexions sur eledform. Dans un précédent article j'essayais d'expliciter les différentes informations que l'on peut associer à un lemme, pour envisager une syntaxe généraliste. Je vais en proposer ici un nouveau, à partir du XML-TEI. En effet, le module critical propose déjà, à sa manière, un formalisme. Ne serait-il pas pertinent de reprendre les réflexions du comités à l'origine du TEI pour constituer notre formalisme ? Exemple en XML TEI Prenons un exemple, avec le texte suivant : (...) - (e)led(mac/par)
Une liste, non exhaustive de corrigenda pour le livre XeLaTeX appliqué aux sciences humaines. Dans le chapitre sur ledmac/ledpar On remplacera ledmac par eledmac et ledpar par eledpar. On consultera l'article de présentation de eledmac pour plus d'information. Dans le chapitre sur l'ajout de référence bibliographique On remplacera \volvcite par \volcite. Dans le chapitre sur Beamer L'explication sur la version article / présentation est incorrect. On supprimera toute la section « Automatiser les (...) - LaTeX
I recently came across the menukeys package and found it very useful for software documentation and description of workflows. The output it creates is quite neat. Therefore, I will briefly introduce the main features and give some examples here. An example at the beginning Getting the package The package comes with the texlive [...]
I don’t know whether it’s common in other parts of the world, but in France one often (or rather: always) denotes an open or closed immersion by drawing a circle or a slash on the hooked arrow. A bad impression hacked together in plain LaTeX would be and . Now to define the six functors [...]
Today Khaled Hosny released XeTeX 0.9999 .0, the first beta version of the 0.9999 series. There are some major changes. The most notable improvement is the port from the ICU LayoutEngine to HarfBuzz. HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine, which is under active development and offers a much wider OpenType support. This step also fixes a number of known bugs.
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