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Failing just hard enough to learn [Learning & Teaching / Riding higher waves Pt. 2.1]

Posted on August 21, 2022 by LaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital Humanities Feed

This post is another reflection on the relationship between teaching and self-directed learning. It focuses on how to find a balance with making learning too hard or not hard enough. Thus the title: How can we deliberately make ourselves and/or our students fail just hard enough to learn? Context: I just found this post in the huge number of unfinished drafts in my WordPress. It was almost done, supposedly from early fall 2021. Some of it are reflections on my own (online) teaching in the summer term of 2021. I thought this was an interesting reflection still, so I decided to fix it up a little and post it now, despite the text not being “new” and some of my thoughts on my own teaching having changed over the last year where I have been teaching more than before as a Postdoc. Because the draft of this post was already so long and got a little longer with some 2022read more Failing just hard enough to learn [Learning & Teaching / Riding higher waves Pt. 2.1]

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Artikel bei golem.de

Posted on July 9, 2022 by Uwe Ziegenhagen Feed

Bei golem.de wurde mein zweiter LaTeX-Artikel veröffentlicht, ihr findet ihn hier: https://www.golem.de/news/layouten-mit-latex-setzt-du-noch-oder-gestaltest-du-schon-2207-165543.html Der erste Artikel zum Thema befindet sich hier: https://www.golem.de/news/latex-schreibst-du-noch-oder-setzt-du-schon-2201-162303.html UweUwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me for it? Consider making a small donation to my local fablab, the Dingfabrik Köln. […]

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Folien meines „MyTinyTodo“-Vortrags bei der Dante Sommertagung in Magdeburg

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Uwe Ziegenhagen Feed

Hier die Folien meines MyTinyTodo2LaTeX Lightning Talks, gehalten auf der Sommertagung 2022 von Dante e.V. in Magdeburg. Folien UweUwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me for it? Consider making a small donation to my local fablab, the Dingfabrik Köln. Details on how […]

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Folien meines „Beamer Themes“-Vortrags bei der Dante Sommertagung in Magdeburg

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Uwe Ziegenhagen Feed

Hier die Folien meines „Beamer Themes“-Vortrags bei der Dante Sommertagung in Magdeburg. FolienFolien UweUwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me for it? Consider making a small donation to my local fablab, the Dingfabrik Köln. Details on how to donate can be found […]

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Liste aller Beamer Themes in TeX Live

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Uwe Ziegenhagen Feed

Unter https://github.com/UweZiegenhagen/LaTeX-Beamer-Theme-Overview habe ich ein Projekt begonnen, das alle in einem TeX Live vorhandenen Beamer-Themes anhand von Beispielbildern vorstellt. Direkter Link zur Übersicht: https://github.com/UweZiegenhagen/LaTeX-Beamer-Theme-Overview/blob/main/OVERVIEW.md Technisch funktioniert es so, dass der Name des Themes aus dem Dateinamen extrahiert wird, dazu nutze ich mein Varsfromjobname-Paket. Die einzelnen PDFs werden dann über ein Python-Skript mit LaTeX erzeugt, mittels […]

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Silbentrennung und Kerning anzeigen mit showhyphenation und showkerning

Posted on June 27, 2022 by Uwe Ziegenhagen Feed

Für LuaLaTeX gibt es mit showhyphenation und showkerning zwei interessante Pakete, die die möglichen Trennstellen bzw. das Kerning anzeigen. %!TEX TS-program = lualatex \documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl} \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{blindtext} \usepackage{microtype} \usepackage{showhyphenation} \usepackage[ontop]{showkerning} \begin{document} \blindtext \blindtext \end{document} UweUwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me […]

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TUG 2022 proposal deadline June 15

Posted on June 6, 2022 by TeX Users Group Feed

The deadline to receive presentation proposals for the TUG'22 conference is June 15, about a week from now. The conference will be held online July 22-24. It would be great to receive more proposals, so if there's anything TeX- or typography-related you'd like to give a talk on, don't hesitate to send in a title and abstract. Presentations are usually around 30min, but shorter or longer is fine. We also greatly appreciate accompanying papers for the TUGboat proceedings (deadline: July 31), but this is not a requirement. Registration for the conference is free. Thanks for considering, and hope to see you there. --happy TeXing, karl. P.S. Please feel free to redistribute this note elsewhere. The more widely it goes out, the better.

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Using APA7 with usmthesis

Posted on June 5, 2022 by Malaysian LaTeX User Group Feed

Following up from the previous post Using APA7 with umalayathesis, but about usmsthesis. Likewise, I am hoping (against hope?) that one day, apacite package will be updated to support APA7, so that usmthesis.cls won’t need to undergo overhauling either. But until that day comes, if you need to use APA7 with usmthesis now, then it […]

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Using APA7 with umalayathesis

Posted on May 28, 2022 by Malaysian LaTeX User Group Feed

Currently the umalayathesis class uses apacite to implement the bibliography style, but apacite supports only APA6. For full APA7 it would be necessary to use biblatex-apa; no BibTeX style for full APA7 exists yet. I’m still hoping (against hope?) that one day, the apacite package will be updated to support APA7, so that umalayathesis.cls won’t […]

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TUGboat 43:1 published

Posted on May 11, 2022 by TeX Users Group Feed

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.

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TLContrib on CTAN

Posted on May 1, 2022 by There and back again Feed

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...

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First ever LaTeX Ninja workshop at Harvard: “Beyond TEI: Digital Editions with XPath and XSLT for the Web and in LaTeX”

Posted on April 17, 2022 by LaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital Humanities Feed

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”

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TeX Live 2022 released

Posted on April 4, 2022 by There and back again Feed

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...

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Training my own Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model on Transkribus Lite

Posted on March 22, 2022 by LaTeX Ninja'ing and the Digital Humanities Feed

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

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siunitx v3.1: complex values

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Some TeX Developments Feed

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 ...

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