Packt Publishing currently offers all three of their LaTeX books with a 15% discount. From Packt at LinkedIn: Special Offer Alert! For a limited time, get your print copy on Packt with an exclusive discount! Use code: LEARNLATEX15 at checkout… Continue Reading →
The TeXLive.net server that hosts a public LaTeX service for running LaTeX in the browser (as used, for example, at the learnlatex.org tutorial site) has been upgraded to a new server. This server is also used by other sites such… Continue Reading →
Karl Berry hat heute Abend bekanntgegeben, dass der Pretest von TeX Live 2025 abgeschlossen sei und die neue Version der Distribution veröffentlicht worden ist. Es wird noch ein paar Tage dauern, bis die neuen Dateien auf allen Mirror-Servern des CTAN-Netzwerks angekommen… Continue Reading →
TeX Live 2025 was released today. All engines now create PDF-1.7 in LaTeX and plain format, with older formats (like 1.5 and 1.4) still supported. MacTeX 2025 is now also available, coming with TeXShop 5.49, and working with the latest… Continue Reading →
On X (Twitter), Juan Carlos aka @jcponcemath posts math content frequently. I saw hist post about the Aizawa attractor, a spherical-shaped attractor made from 6 parameters (a, b, …, f). Three equations generate a trajectory from an initial point. I… Continue Reading →
I talked a little while ago about work that the LaTeX Project team are doing on creating tagged PDFs automatically from ‘standard’ LaTeX sources. I promised to talk about how this might impact beamer, and was recently reminded about that…. Continue Reading →
The standard way to typeset labels in metapost is using label(btex … etex, pos), which uses TeX to typeset the label and then includes it in the metapost graphic. ConTeXt simplifies the user interface a little: instead of using btex… Continue Reading →
Emacs 30.1 ist heute veröffentlicht worden. Herunterladen und entpacken muss man den Tarball unter macOS Sonoma auf der Kommandozeile, und man braucht pkg-config per Homebrew, damit alle Bibliotheken gefunden werden. GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.6.0, NS appkit-2487.70 Version 14.7.4… Continue Reading →
Emacs 30.1 RC1 ist gestern veröffentlicht worden. Herunterladen und entpacken muss man den Tarball unter macOS Sonoma auf der Kommandozeile, und man braucht pkg-config per Homebrew, damit alle Bibliotheken gefunden werden. GNU Emacs 30.1 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.6.0, NS appkit-2487.70 Version… Continue Reading →
Doraemon is a blue robot cat from the 22nd century. He was sent to the 20th century to help Nobi Nobita. On his stomach, he has a four-dimensional pocket where he keeps all kinds of gadgets, no matter how big… Continue Reading →
I saw a beautiful parametric plot on X (Twitter) by Juan Carlos, that looks like a rose, done in Desmos. Parametric surface: Rose #mathematics #surfaces #marthart #desmos https://t.co/bxFsJuKIzN pic.twitter.com/Uls6ZgWF2Y — ∞ 𝕁uan ℂarlos (@jcponcemath) February 3, 2025 Challenge accepted! I’ll… Continue Reading →
On X (Twitter), I saw a post by @clcoding demonstrating making area charts in Python. As I knew that we can do them easily with pgfplots, I did the same. We can use the ‘fillbetween’ library as follows: We can… Continue Reading →
On X (Twitter), I saw a post by @ThePhysicMemes making fun of a bear running on a jumping ball. I used this occasion to generate periodic plots with an if-condition, demonstrating also how functions can be declared: This LaTeX document… Continue Reading →
Karl Berry weist auf der TeX-Live-Mailingliste darauf hin, dass der Pretest für TeX Live 2025 anläuft. Der Zeitplan liegt derzeit noch nicht vor. Bisher war es aber üblich, den Release bis Ende April fertigzustellen. Wer irgend kann, sollte eine Testinstallation vornehmen,… Continue Reading →
Mathieu aka @miniapeur posted another meme on X (Twitter). It contained a 3D plot of a wavy function. So I did a similar plot, but for roundness and rotational symmetry parametrized it differently so it won’t have these edgy corners…. Continue Reading →
I saw Gabriel’s Horn on X (Twitter) posted by @sonukg4india. Looks nice, so let’s plot it ourselves. We can use pgfplots to draw Gabriel’s horn quickly in LaTeX: pic.twitter.com/aoDjL3vwHw — LaTeX.org (@TeXgallery) February 3, 2025 \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \pgfplotsset{compat=1.18} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}… Continue Reading →
I saw tomoq’s star-shaped plot on X (Twitter), together with a pretty big implicit function definition: How to plot this? An easy way is to consider the left side as a function z=f(x,y) in three dimensions, and that equation would… Continue Reading →
Extracting a Tagged PDF Structure Tree as XML The project has produced a new tool to extract the Structure Tree from a tagged PDF file as XML. This is a Lua script just requiring the texlua that is distributed with… Continue Reading →
LaTeX has ability to integrate many standard and user-defined counters that count from a, b, …, roman and arabic numbers and many more. Even counting backwards are relatively straightforward if you set a static number from which LaTeX can count… Continue Reading →
The TeX Users Group (TUG) meeting 2025 will take place in Trivandrum, Kerala, India, from July 18-20 (Fri-Sun), 2025. It is hosted by TeXFolio, an institutional member and sponsor of the TeX Users Group. Conference information and the registration form… Continue Reading →
Original drawing by Daniel Littmann on X/Twitter, here drawn in TikZ. I used the hobby library for smooth open or closed paths, “to” paths with in and out angles for further smooth paths with a certain looseness, all nodes set… Continue Reading →
X/Twitterで、こちらの投稿を@884_96さんによって見かけました。 (4) の木構造が気に入ったので、素早くこの図を作成しました： Screenshot コードは以下の通りです： \documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{trees} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[every node/.style = { execute at begin node = $, execute at end node = $}, level distance = 1cm, level 1/.style = {sibling distance = 2cm}, level 2/.style = {sibling distance… Continue Reading →
The Heaviside step function, also called the unit step function, is named after Oliver Heaviside. Its value is zero for negative arguments and one for positive arguments. It can be used to represent a signal that is first switched off… Continue Reading →
\documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{angles,calc,decorations.markings} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[thick, draw only after/.style = { preaction ={decorate, decoration={markings,mark=at position 0 with {\pgfmathsetmacro\mypoff{\pgfdecoratedpathlength*#1}\xdef\mypoff{\mypoff} \pgfmathsetmacro\mypl{\pgfdecoratedpathlength}\xdef\mypl{\mypl}}}}, postaction={draw, dash pattern = on 0pt off \mypoff on \mypl}}] \coordinate (o) at (0,0); \coordinate (a1) at (0.72, 1.33); \coordinate (a2) at (0.72,… Continue Reading →
\documentclass[border=10pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{dsfont} \usetikzlibrary{angles, decorations.pathmorphing} \begin{document} \tikzset{smallcircle/.style = {circle, draw, fill=white, inner sep=2pt}} \def\r{1.2} \newcommand*{\U}[5]{% \path (#2,#3) coordinate (0) +(#4:\r) coordinate (1) +(#5:\r) coordinate (2) pic[thick, draw = red!80!black, angle radius=\r cm] {angle = 1–0–2} pic[thick, draw = black, angle radius=\r… Continue Reading →
A Tagged PDF-themed holiday video! See also: Original Source by the LaTeX project team
In November 2024, a translation of the TikZ book written by Stefan Kottwitz has been released by Asakura Publishing. 2024年11月に、Stefan Kottwitz著のTikZに関する書籍の翻訳版が朝倉書店から発売されました。LaTeXで画像を作るための実用的な入門書。TikZにより数学、科学、技術論文に図や画像を簡単に入れられる。アイデアやデータを可視化してプロフェッショナルな図表やプロットを2次元でも3次元でも表示できるようになるために。 本書の内容: TikZ.jp See also: Original Source by Stefan Kottwitz
This posts shows code examples of Feynman diagrams of ttbar quark plus W or Z boson production in proton-proton collisions. For a nice overview from the experimental point of view, have a look at this review article by the CMS… Continue Reading →
Asymptote can draw standard shapes (spheres, cylinders, cubes, etc) which you can then scale, rotate, and shift to create many other shapes. \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage[inline]{asymptote} \begin{document} \begin{asy} import three; settings.render = 0; //Setup View size(200); currentprojection=orthographic(5,4,2); //Draw Axes pen thickblack =… Continue Reading →
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage[inline]{asymptote} \begin{document} \begin{asy} // settings.outformat=”pdf”; // settings.prc = false; // settings.render = 16; settings.render = 0; import three; import graph; size(8cm,0); currentprojection = orthographic(2,0,10, up=Y); draw(-2X–2X,arrow=Arrow3(),L=Label(“$X$”, position=EndPoint)); draw(-2Y–2Y,arrow=Arrow3(),L=Label(“$U$”, position=EndPoint)); draw(-2Z–2Z); label(“$w \to \infty$”,(2,1,0)); draw((0.5,-1,1)–(0.7,-0.2,1),arrow=Arrow3(size=5bp),L=Label(“$\Pi_w$”, position=BeginPoint)); draw((1.5,-1.3,0)–(1.3,-0.8,0),arrow=Arrow3(size=5bp),L=Label(“$X+U = L \mathrm{e}^{w/L}$”,… Continue Reading →
We launched learnlatex to provide high-quality teaching of core LaTeX concepts with interactive examples. From the start, we wanted to offer the ‘course’ in multiple languages: this was part of the structure from the start. Over time, several people have… Continue Reading →
This posts shows code examples of Feynman diagrams of single top production in proton-proton collisions, like those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). For a nice overview from the experimental point of view, have a look at this (13 TeV)… Continue Reading →
We submitted the first pre-release version for the 2025-06-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN recently. It should have made its way into TeX Live for everyone by now, so it’s ready for users to try. As the first pre-release, this contains… Continue Reading →
On X (Twitter), I saw a post by Ben Levinstein asking if any AI could do a good job turning hand-drawn diagrams into TikZ equivalents. I guess AI is not ready for this yet, but I can show how I… Continue Reading →
Annual cuti-cuti Malaysia calendar time — 2025 is nigh upon us. The Cuti-cuti Malaysia 2025 calendar LaTeX source files are available as an Overleaf Overleaf read-only project here. By default, when you open the project, it compiles and generates (may… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 45, number 3, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:2 is now publicly available. Submissions for the next regular issue are welcome and… Continue Reading →
University Putra Malaysia has an updated thesis LaTeX template by Sina Abdipoor! Available as an Overleaf template here. See also: Original Source by LianTze Lim
When the LaTeX Project team took over maintenance of LaTeX from Leslie Lamport, LaTeX2e was planned as an intermediate release to resolve immediate issues with the then-current LaTeX2.09. The ‘e’ (or properly ε) was meant to indicate a small change… Continue Reading →
On X/Twitter, I saw a drawing by 黄餅もち. It is pretty easy to do in TikZ, so I quickly made this drawing, using LuaLaTeX: The code is: \documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{luatexja-fontspec} \usetikzlibrary{trees} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[edge from parent fork right, grow=east, every node/.style={draw}] \node… Continue Reading →
On X/Twitter, I saw a drawing by toshᴉzumi. It’s pretty complex, well made, I like it very much. I had a few thoughts how I would adjust it a bit to my taste. toshᴉzumi shared the code, so I played… Continue Reading →
The latest release of LaTeX went to CTAN on Friday, and moves us forward in truly automatic tagging for PDFs, particularly for mathematics. As part of the work, we have been looking at the capabilities of different engines. Here, I… Continue Reading →
Hier ein Beispiel aus der gridpapers Doku, wie man mit LaTeX isometrische Papiere gestalten kann. \documentclass{article} \usepackage[pattern=iso, %tri für senkrecht patternsize=0.5cm, textarea, bgcolor=white, %majorcolor={green}, minorcolor={lightgray}, geometry={a4paper, margin=1cm}]{gridpapers} \begin{document} \thispagestyle{empty} ~ \end{document} gridpapers-iso gridpapers-tri Uwe Uwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python,… Continue Reading →
Hier ein erster Entwurf, wie man mit LaTeX Drum Patters setzen kann. \documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl} \usepackage[margin=1cm]{geometry} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{babel} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} % Define the pattern as a comma-separated list \def\pattern{x,-,-,-,-,x,x,-,-,-,x,x,-,-,-,x} \def\cellsizex{1cm} \def\cellsizey{0.5cm} \node[draw, rectangle,minimum width = \cellsizex, align=left,minimum height=\cellsizey] (a)… Continue Reading →
We sent the 2024-11-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN yesterday. By tomorrow it should be available to most users via TeX Live or MiKTeX. Thirty years of LaTeX2e This release marks 30 years since the first release of… Continue Reading →
I saw a question on X/Twitter by とと about drawing certain circles, partially filled, together with aligned equations. So, I quickly wrote some TikZ code to demonstrate how such drawings can be done. This is the result: And this is… Continue Reading →
I saw a question on X/Twitter by @ritsudesu_yoro about drawing arrows and adding labels to chemical equation. @RARARARAICHUUU recommended doing it in TikZ, and I fully agree with this suggestion. So I wrote quickly some TikZ code to demonstrate how… Continue Reading →
Below are some code examples of Feynman diagrams showing hard processes in proton-proton collisions. Click on a diagram to jump to the code & download links below: Inelastic hard process: \documentclass[11pt,border=4pt]{standalone} \usepackage{feynmp-auto} \begin{document} \begin{fmffile}{feyngraph} \fmfframe(-2,44)(0,44){ % padding (L,T)(R,B) \begin{fmfgraph*}(160,80) %… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 45, number 2, the proceedings of the TUG’24 conference, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:1 is now publicly available. Submissions for the… Continue Reading →