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Es gibt ja viele Internet-Foren, Blogs, Wikis und andere Webseiten mit Codebeispielen für TeX und LaTeX. Gerade in Foren ist es üblich, Problem-Beispiele zu posten, und Antworten enthalten oft vollständige Lösungs-Codes. Optimalerweise mit Screenshots zum Komfort aller Leser. Man kann … Weiterlesen →
Following up on the recent first beta for siunitx, I’ve now made a second beta available. There was only one issue picked up so far by testers, plus of course those I’ve spotted myself. In particular, I’ve allowed a way to set the text font manually if simply resetting back to the standard one doesn’t work. I’ve also sneaked in a late addition: the ability to parse and print uncertainties the way NIST seem to suggest they should appear. Assuming that I get no major issues coming up, I plan to put this out as the first v3 release in a couple of weeks time: before the next LaTeX kernel update!
Since you all probably already know that I’m a bit short on time but trying to keep this blog aliveread more Teaching Materials: A German intro class to XPath and XSLT
Many Humanities scholars feel like you can’t get a project funded anymore if it doesn’t include DH. Some even ask me “Do I have to include DH to get funded?” Well, that answer lies outside of my expertise. I can, however, answer the probably even more important question of whether you should include DH in your grant proposal for the main purpose of improving your chances at getting funded. And if you decide to do so, how to do it right. In this post, I will give you my thoughts on the topic and also provide a checklist you might want to use to answer this question for yourself at the end. As I trust you have already figured out, I am not the person granting you funding neither am I in any way involved in the progress (at least as of now). So please take the thoughts I share here for what they are: my two cents. I’m justread more The “Should I include Digital Humanities in my grant proposal” Guide for Humanities people
Having just attended a talk in an event on Digital Humanities and Neo-Latin, I was inspired to share a short list of introductory resources on DH, especially for teachers who feel more like Humanities scholars and don’t have tons of time to learn everything autodidactically. They can use those resources to learn for themselves and pass on this knowledge or pass on this link 😉 And also, since you’ve already found this blog, you are already on a great path to learning DH! I’ll try to keep this updated – and it’s not really done yet, so feel free to contribute. Discipline-independent DH dariahTeach: great MOOCs on many topics Digital Classics Article by yours truly in German: Digitale Lernplattformen und Open Educational Resources im Altsprachlichen Unterricht I. Technische Spielräume am Beispiel des ›Grazer Repositorium antiker Fabeln‹ (GRaF). It contains a few resources on digital resources and digital teaching, mostly with Classics in mind. Perseus Digital Library Review of said Perseusread more List of Resources for getting started with (teaching) digital methods
I’ve been talking about a new version of siunitx for ages. Progress has been slow but I’ve now put my back into it and got to a feature-complete version: I’m calling this v3.0.0-beta. As this is a beta release, it’s not ready for production just yet, but it is ready for proper testing. I’ve made the TDS-style zip file available here; if you know how to use this kind of file, please download and test! As I’ve said before, there are a lot of internal improvements in the code. There are also some big changes which do show to users. The major changes are The name for commands for units and quantities have changed: \unit and \qty. The old names (\si and \SI) are still about, but I’d encourage people to move to the new ones. Font set up is entirely revised, which means that there are new settings to use if you want to adjust the output. The new approach should be faster and cleaner than the old one, but you might have to pick new options. Products of numbers now have a dedicated interface: \numproduct, with a matching \qtyproduct for quantities Complex numbers also have decided interfaces: \complexnum ...
Hier ein Beispiel dafür, wie man mit dem gridpapers Paket Muster auf Papier bringen kann, hier ein Punktmuster. %!TEX TS-program = Arara % arara: pdflatex: {shell: yes} \documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl} \areaset{8cm}{16cm} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{babel} \pagestyle{empty} \usepackage[pattern=dot,% colorset=std, geometry={left=2.25cm,right=1.25cm,top=1cm,bottom=1.25cm},% textarea,% patternsize={5mm},% dotsize={1pt} ]{gridpapers} \begin{document} ~ \end{document} Auszug aus der A4-Seite: UweUwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even […]
I’m not sure if anybody even realized I haven’t been posting lately but this is the longest hiatus we’ve ever had on this blog thus far. It was my normal practice to post pre-scheduled posts only every other week when on fellowships but now I totally went off the (WordPress) grid and I wanted to reconnect with you all. (And also, Easter greetings – if that’s something you care about!) As you might have imagined, I’m quite busy at the moment. I have some typesetting going on (my god, I’m not sure I will ever agree again to typeset a book that I’m also responsible for as an editor, it’s a crazy amount of work!), then I should finish my PhD thesis, I’m on a fellowship where I should finish a translation before heading off to the next fellowship which I hope I can actually get to because it’s in the US. So yeah, busy times. Although I have toread more Is the Ninja dead? No. But you deserve an update!
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2021. For this year’s release process we have changed how to deal with updates of the tlnet distribution for TeX Live...
Dr Rizauddin Saian has released a LaTeX document class for writing Universiti Teknologi Malaysia theses! You can find it on Github and on Overleaf. For other Malaysian university thesis LaTeX templates see our list here.
LaTeX is a great system for producing technical documents, but as it is not a word processor, there is an entry barrier. In many ways, learning LaTeX is like learning a 'real' programming language: we have input ('code') and run ('compile') to get output. It's not surprising, therefore, that we might look at how people learn those 'real' programming languages and want to provide similar tools. A quick search will show that while books remain important resources, interactive web-based training is the first contact many users have with a whole range of programming tools. The learnlatex.org project was born out of the desire to provide the same easy-to-access approach for LaTeX beginners.
Hier ein kurzes Beispiel, wie man mit LaTeX auch Dymo-Labels erzeugen kann, im Beispiel für die Label-Größe 57*32mm. Zum allgemeinen Verständnis von ticket.sty siehe auch meinen DTK Artikel in Ausgabe 1/2021. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[landscape,paperheight=57mm,paperwidth=32mm,left=0mm,top=0mm,right=0mm,bottom=0mm]{geometry} %\usepackage[sfdefault]{plex-sans} \usepackage{palatino} \begin{filecontents}[overwrite]{Dymo5732.tdf} \unitlength=1mm \hoffset=-25.4mm \voffset=-29mm \ticketNumbers{1}{1} \ticketSize{57}{32} % Breite und Hoehe der Labels in mm \ticketDistance{0}{0} % Abstand der […]
Blogs, forums, Q&A sites, FAQ sites, and web sites in general can now provide one-click LaTeX compiling on smartphones, tablets, and PCs. The TeXlive.net server provides a backend with a TeX Live 2020 installation. The server software was written by David Carlisle and is hosted on a virtual machine provided by Stefan Kottwitz, with financial support from DANTE for the hardware. The tutorial site LearnLatex.org already switched to TeXlive.net.
Im vergangenen Jahr sind leider beide DANTE-Tagungen wegen der Pandemie ausgefallen. Dieses Jahr wird die Frühjahrstagung stattfinden, jedoch wegen der Kontaktbeschränkungen komplett online. Anmelden kann man sich online auf www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2021/anmeldung/ und das ist kurz und einfach und kostet nix. Mitglieder
The following text is in German because it’s about the German language user group meeting…
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