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LyX participates in the Google Summer of Code |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Friday, 12 April 2013 07:23 |
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LyX has been accepted as a mentoring organization in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2013. Each summer, since 2005, Google awards stipends to students who successfully completed a free and open-source coding project during that summer - that's why the name, which was drawn from the 1967 Summer of Love.
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TeX Live 2013 Release Plan |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Monday, 01 April 2013 09:40 |
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.
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First Beta of XeTeX 0.9999 released |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013 19:24 |
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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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TikZ Library for Structural Analysis |
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Graphics, Figures & Tables
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Written by Jürgen Hackl
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Sunday, 10 March 2013 11:58 |
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At university it is always a very time consuming work to create new assignments, and tests; especially when those tasks include drawing graphics.
In the field of structural engineering those small structures are a key part for teaching. For this reason I developed, in cooperation with the Institute for Structural Analysis at the Graz University of Technology, a TikZ library for Structural Analysis.
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Transplanting TeX Live from one Windows system to another one |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Wednesday, 27 February 2013 12:19 |
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The TeX Live net installer is a great tool. However, with a slow Internet connection it may be daunting. Think of multiple installations in a company, or imagine several users at a TeX conference or another meeting would like to install TeX Live concurrently using the meeting's internet connection.
Possible solutions would be distributing DVDs or USB sticks with a possibly slightly outdated version, using a cache such as a proxy server, or setting up a local mirror repository. Now there's another way.
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E-TeX: Guidelines for Future TeX Extensions - revisited |
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Written by Frank Mittelbach
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Saturday, 06 April 2013 10:30 |
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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.
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Written by Luca Merciadri
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Wednesday, 20 March 2013 00:00 |
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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, even when you are using accented characters,
- Making a distinction with \overline for propositional logic formulae,
- Referring to labels by long names.
We will then discuss some problems people often face when dealing with many figures, and, more generally, floats, in reports. Finally, we will deal with a Beamer scheme which aims at using a single file for both a presentation, and the related report.
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Sunday, 10 March 2013 14:54 |
Texmaker version 4.0 has been released on March 8, 2013. Now the free cross-platform LaTeX editor bases on Qt5, the latest version of the Qt library which has been released on December 19, 2012.
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Topic Tags for the LaTeX Community Forum |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Friday, 01 March 2013 13:45 |
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As announced today, topic tagging has been implemented for the LaTeX Community forum.
A tag is a keyword which classifies a topic. Using tags, topics are categorized by subject, which makes browsing easier and helps to look-up topics. Carefully selected tags are a great addition to full text search - a human made index is better than machine searching. Besides the broad forum categories (subforums), you could then filter for tags such as TikZ, Koma-Script, BibTeX, editor names, package names, and more.
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A MikTeX update may remove amslatex / amsmath as obsolete - how to fix it |
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Written by Stefan Kottwitz
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Wednesday, 06 February 2013 08:56 |
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On several TeX sites users wrote that in the recent days a problem occured after they updated their MiKTeX installation: amsmath could not be used any more since MiKTeX has marked amslatex as obsolete, so it was uninstalled.
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