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TUGboat volume 43, number 1, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 42:3 is now publicly available. The next issue will be the TUG'22 proceedings; presentation proposals are welcome and requested; see the call for papers. Finally, please consider joining or renewing your TUG membership if you haven't already (we'll send this issue immediately), and thanks.
Since a few years I am also managing tlcontrib – the supplementary TeX Live package repository. It contains quite a lot of packages which cannot make it into TeX Live proper out of various...
It’s been awfully quiet on this blog but actually, there’s lots of Ninja activity going on right now: I’m excited to announce that I will give the first ever official LaTeX Ninja workshop, in person at Harvard in about two weeks! It’s called “Beyond TEI: Digital Editions with XPath and XSLT for the Web and in LaTeX”. (Apart from that, there’s a short book review coming up in TUGboat.) Since there probably are a good number of people who would be interested in such a workshop but can’t attend in person, I will share the slides and teaching materials on Github later on. That way, they can be reused for self-study. This blogpost gives somewhat of an outline of the contents of the workshop and contains links to related posts on this blog. Participants might want to read some of them in preparation or as an additional resource. The workshop was organized by Jonas Hermann and Lydia Shahan and sponsored byread more First ever LaTeX Ninja workshop at Harvard: “Beyond TEI: Digital Editions with XPath and XSLT for the Web and in LaTeX”
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2022. This year’s TeX Live release was one of the most unspectacular I can remember. No big problems, not last minute...
Today’s post is just a short essay describing my experiences with Transkribus Lite and creating my first custom Transkribus modelread more Training my own Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on Transkribus Lite
I mentioned recently that I’m working on features for siunitx v3.1. One area that I’ve now been able to commit is improvements to handling complex values. In v2, you could give complex values in the normal argument to \num or \SI. I removed that for v3, and of course that was not entirely popular. Instead, I introduced dedicated commands, \complexnum and \complexqty. Part of the reason for that was that it makes the implementation of \num and \qty/\SI easier. But the other was that I wanted to address polar form, and that really didn’t look viable if it was mixed in with the normal numerical argument type. I’ve now committed a change that introduces support for polar form in siunitx. So what happens now is if you give a value such as \num{10:30}, it’s treated as a magnitude and an angle. The latter has a setting to determine if it’s regarded as being in degrees or radians. The package can then typeset the result in a similar form, using the \angle symbol between the two parts. You can also set up to convert between the classical (Cartesian) and polar forms of the value. So hopefully this shows why I wanted ...
I’ve now done 49 (!) minor releases of siunitx on the v3.0.x branch. These have addressed quite a few minor bugs: I expected to have to do a bit of work since the shift from v2 was quite major. Things are now settling down: the open issues I’ve had recently are mainly on the border of feature requests, and there don’t seem to be additional changes I’ve introduced by accident. With the TeX Live freeze coming up, now looks like an excellent time to turn my thoughts to siunitx v3.1. The plan there is to deal with two areas: Small requests that are clearly additions not bugs, so need API extensions but are easy/low risk Pick off one of the bigger requests, probably either multi-part uncertainties or parsing ‘free form’ units, or both if they are sufficiently straight-forward Of course, that doesn’t rule out further bugs to be fixes in the v3.0 branch: I will continue to fix things that come up there. Depending on how the big issues go, I might manage a v3.1 release in the summer (June-August).
Dienstag abend hat die LaTeX Community Twitter erfolgreich durchgespielt: es wurde das Level erreicht, dass LaTeX in Deutschland auf Twitter trendet, den Abend lang. Und zwar in der korrekten Schreibweise, wichtig. Keine andere Sache. Was ist passiert? Wir haben uns rege über LaTeX unterhalten, dann hat noch Anna eine Umfrage gestartet, was man für eine Doktorarbeit verwenden sollte (Spoiler: LaTeX)
As some of you might know, I have written about my Twitter bots on this blog a number of times. Now I decided to shut them all down and wanted to give at least a short explanation of why that was. TLDR: It got unexpectedly expensive and I reasoned the benefit wasn’t really worth the price. Off-topic note on posting schedule: As my devoted readers have probably noticed by now, we’re down to a bi-weekly posting schedule at the most. I have been thinking about it and I’m aiming for two posts per month for now. Actually that’s less than every second week. The point is, I have been reflecting about what makes this blog what it is and I think that’s the good posts I come up with every once in a while. When those add up, that makes the blog a useful resource for time to come. It’s these posts that I want to focus on. And frankly,read more Why I stopped my Twitter bots
Yet another TeX tip today – I found I wrote this over 6 years ago and never published. So, here it is. When I need to plot function graphs, the excellent TikZ package is usually my go-to solution. While I really do like TikZ, I have to say it had a nasty surprise for me.
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Look, a TeX post again! It’s been another while since I last wrote anything TeX-y here. No wonder, I hardly ever use TeX anymore – but I still do use it from time to time! A few days ago I needed to draw a diagram of an inclined plane. Interestingly, there are people who did exactly that using TikZ before (obviously), but two examples I found used the heavy artillery of trigonometry.
As some of you might know, I have been promising to provide an intro to XML for a long time. So far, this hasn’t happened yet because I kind of froze up due to perfectionism. Given that I teach XML regularly, there are so many great tutorials out there already and it’s such a fundamental skill in the DH, I panicked. But then I realized: You don’t need a perfect intro, you need a simplistic intro, so you don’t get lost in the clutter. Because despite everything there is to be said about XML in the Digital Humanities, it’s really quite simple and everybody can learn it. XML really is quite easy to understand, especially to Humanities people. I feel that annotation is a concept most Humanities scholars are familiar with – even when they don’t realize that yet. Some of the supposedly “gentle” introductions to XML (see resources list below) really are quite long and overwhelming. On the flipread more A shamelessly short intro to XML for DH beginners (includes TEI)
A long wanted change to this blog and a consequence of moving this blog away from purely chemistry related topics to all things related to LaTeX was to change the url from mychemistry.eu to cnltx.de. There is not much more to say: the move has been made already when you …
Because I’m a classicist by training, I have been wanting to broach the topic of how to typeset Ancient Greek in LaTeX for a long time. So today comes a short post on the topic. There are a number of ways you can approach this but most importantly, you need to decide whether you need just any Greek letters or Ancient Greek letters. Because Ancient Greek has diacritics which aren’t featured in all (“normal”) Greek keyboards. This blogpost thus covers three topics and they are: How do I get my Greek letters in the first place (related to 1) How/Where do I get a Greek keyboard and which one to choose How to typeset Greek in LaTeX How to get your Greek letters If you’re just adding, say a note on the origin of a word to your text, you might not even need to install a Greek keyword at all. When I just quickly need a Greek character, Iread more How to write (Ancient) Greek in LaTeX
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