I just started a small giveaway on the LaTeX.org forum for the new 2026 edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide. < You can win: one printed copy (US/UK/Canada because of shipping logistics) and possibly two additional eBook copies worldwide The... Continue Reading →
The Unicode Consortium is pleased to announce Unicode Technology Workshop 2026 will take place from October 20-23, 2026 in historical and vibrant Nancy, France. Topics include the role of Unicode’s standards, algorithms, and data as used across various technology stacks,… Continue Reading →
Recently on X, I saw an Andrews plot and decided to plot it in LaTeX. MATLABもStatistics and Machine Learning Toolboxも持っていないので、私はLaTeXで Fisher Iris Dataset の Andrews plot を描いています https://t.co/eKnGAvWpLL pic.twitter.com/1tXy5BxrfK — LaTeX.org (@TeXgallery) May 7, 2026 I took the data file… Continue Reading →
The second and final pre-release version for the 2026-06-01 LaTeX kernel went to CTAN few days ago. We encourage everybody to try it out on their documents (and developers on their packages) so that there will be no unwanted surprises… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 47, number 1 is available online and from the TUG store. It will mail soon to current TUG members. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 46:3 is now publicly available. The next issue will be the TUG’26 proceedings; the… Continue Reading →
I remember that when I used the beamer class to create a presentation for the first time (circa 2003!), one of the most impressive features was shadows under the frames. The simplest idea to draw a shadow is to copy… Continue Reading →
(or: Why don’t we practice Carbon Reporting in Computational Humanities?) Oh, the debated question of whether personal or academic LLM use is environmentally problematic. Every once in a while, there’s a wave of discussion about the environmental impacts of using… Continue Reading →
The PDF Association has released the first edition of the Best Practice Guide: Math in PDF. This guide, developed by the LaTeX Project Liaison Working Group (A collaboration between the LaTeX Project and the PDF Association) provides critical recommendations for… Continue Reading →
Distant Viewing, the application of computer vision methods to Humanities data in the spirit of Distant Reading, is a well read more Is Distant Viewing a Scam? See also: Original Source by The LaTeX Ninja
The third edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide is now available with 30% off at Amazon, and is ranked as the #1 new release in Amazon’s Technical Writing category. Grab it as long as the Big Spring Sale runs! See… Continue Reading →
The third, improved, and extended edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide was published this month, March 2026. Compared to the first edition from 2011 and the second edition from 2021, the book has been thoroughly revised. The code examples were… Continue Reading →
We are pleased to announce that the PDF Association (PDFA) has just issued a press release highlighting the LaTeX Team’s work to make accessible math in PDF a reality. With the latest developments based on PDF 2.0 and PDF/UA‑2, LaTeX… Continue Reading →
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2026. Nothing spectacularly new in this version, but improvements across that bank, and a new player: `xdvipsk`, an extended dvips with support for more image formats and… Continue Reading →
Just now, February/March 2026, Henning Hraban Ramm has published a new book: “Drucksachen gestalten mit ConTeXt und LuaMetaTeX” (Designing Printed Materials with ConTeXt and LuaMetaTeX). I just posted about it in German on TeXwelt.de and wanted to share it here as well…. Continue Reading →
Soeben, Februar/März 2026, hat Henning Hraban Ramm ein neues Buch veröffentlicht: „Drucksachen gestalten mit ConTeXt und LuaMetaTeX“. Ich habe es eben auf TeXwelt.de gepostet, möchte es auch hier berichten. Als Alternative zu LaTeX ist ConTeXt ebenfalls ein leistungsstarkes TeX-Makropaket für typografisch saubere… Continue Reading →
Update: Das Vortragsprogramm wird online übertragen auf https://xyz123.dante.de/dante2026-videoraum/ Das Zugangspasswort wurde über die dante-ev-Mailingliste gesendet. Vortragsprogramm: https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2026/ Für die Mitgliederversammlung am Samstag wird es einen anderen Videoraum geben. Zugangsdaten können vor Samstag, 08:30 Uhr, per Mail an office@dante.de angefragt werden…. Continue Reading →
I’ll comment a bit later on it, but here’s Stack Exchange own public data on questions over the years, from https://data.stackexchange.com/tex/query/1926661#graph: See also: Original Source by Stefan Kottwitz
The first pre-release version for the 2025-11-01 LaTeX kernel went to CTAN few days ago: it’s now in TeX Live, and we hope people will test it out. Work continues on bringing more flexible and predictable design support to different… Continue Reading →
The Great Tikzlings Christmas Extravaganza 2025 has just been released. Guided by William Shakespeare and Dante Alighieri you are going to meet a hallucinating meerkat and Wagnerian bats. You will learn things about Canada and find out where all the… Continue Reading →
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。
Inspired by a Twitter/X post, I started playing with the representation of orbitals with multiple lobes.
TUGboat volume 46, number 3 has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 46:2 is now publicly available. Submissions for the next regular issue are welcome and… Continue Reading →
We sent the 2025-11-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN last weekend. By now, it’s available to users in TeX Live and MiKTeX. News from the tagging project The tagging project remains the major focus of the team, and… Continue Reading →
In LaTeX, figures and tables are placed in floating environments that allow the typesetting engine to position them for an optimal page layout. This prevents awkward page breaks and excessive white space, but it also means that figures and tables… Continue Reading →
From mathcurve.com: Alain’s curve (studied by Alain Juhel) is the projection of the intersection of the elliptical cone c²z²=a²x²-b²y² with the hyperbolic paraboloid cz=x²-y² onto the xy plane: So it makes sense to plot that xy projection as 0-level contour… Continue Reading →
In September, Ulrike, Joseph, and I attended PDF Days in Berlin to present our work on making complex STEM documents truly accessible. The core message: PDF/UA-1 simply isn’t designed for mathematics, so marking documents as “compliant” doesn’t mean they’re actually… Continue Reading →
The final pre-release version for the 2025-11-01 LaTeX kernel went to CTAN few days ago: it’s now in TeX Live, and we hope people will test it out. As with previous recent releases, the major focus here is tagging: we… Continue Reading →
The achemso package has provided the standard BibTeX styles following the American Chemical Society (ACS) guidelines since before I started using LaTeX. I’ve looked after achemso since 2008, and took it from a simple BibTeX .bst to a bundle including… Continue Reading →
Am 29. August 2025 wurde die letzte E-Mail über die Mailingliste LaTeX-L versandt. Rainer Schöpf, der 35 Jahre vorher auch die erste Mail über den Verteiler versandt hatte, beendete ein Stück Informatikgeschichte: Betreff: Retiring the LATEX-L list Datum: Fri, 29 Aug… Continue Reading →
As I mentioned yesterday on goLaTeX.de, the forum mrunix.de was permanently closed on August 1, 2025. The reasons were low activity and a high volume of spam. Besides Unix topics, the LaTeX subforum was very active—probably the most active of… Continue Reading →
Wie ich gestern auf goLaTeX.de erwähnte, wurde das Forum mrunix.de am 1. August 2025 dauerhaft geschlossen. Grund war die geringe Aktivität und das hohe Spam-Aufkommen. Neben Unix-Themen war das LaTeX-Unterforum sehr aktiv, ich würde sogar sagen, am aktivsten von allen… Continue Reading →
Emacs 30.2 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 30.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin23.6.0, NS appkit-2487.70 Version 14.7.7… Continue Reading →
The regular talks for the TUG’25 conference will start Friday July 18, just before 09:00 IST (Trivandrum time, GMT+0530). The conference will be streamed live on YouTube. YouTube can notify you when each day’s stream goes live via the links… Continue Reading →
I’ve just sent the first (v0.1.0) release of ltx-talk to CTAN. This is a new tagging-aware class which works similarly to beamer. I’ve talked before about the need to write a class from scratch for tagged presentations, so this should… Continue Reading →
AUCTeX 14.1.0 ist gestern veröffentlicht worden. Die Verteilung erfolgt über GNU ELPA. Dies sind die Release Notes: Added Add new commands LaTeX-make-inline which converts the display math environment at point to inline math and the more general LaTeX-modify-math which converts the… Continue Reading →
If you didn’t get into Rare Book School, you’re not alone—and you’re definitely not out of options. Whether you’re just starting out with rare books, trying to get a handle on bibliographical description, or diving into the digital side of… Continue Reading →
ConTeXt has traditionally had a somewhat different distribution approach to other TeX code. The ConTeXt developers provide a stand-alone installer which provides the macro and Lua code which make up ConTeXt, the binaries which are needed and fonts in a… Continue Reading →
We sent the 2025-06-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN over the weekend. It will be appearing to most users via TeX Live about now, and shortly in MiKTeX. News from the tagging project Work continues on the tagging… Continue Reading →
In this blog post, I want to introduce you to the basics of creating your own ground-truth training set for OCR/HTR, whether you’re building your own model or improving an existing one. Essentially, this is about how to create more… Continue Reading →
Public discussion about LaTeX developments for many years took place on the LaTeX-L mailing list, hosted by the University of Heidelberg. However, over time, active input moved elsewhere, most obviously to TeX StackExchange Chat for more informal back-and-forward, and to… Continue Reading →
We posted a couple of weeks ago that a ‘final’ development release of the 2025-06-01 kernel had gone to CTAN. A few things have come up in testing that pre-release, so we have updated again to pre-release 4. Hopefully that… Continue Reading →
Over the years, I have acquired some YouTube skills. I assume that the pandemic has had something to do with read more Why Great Content Isn’t Enough on YouTube: Essentials for Academia (That I Learned the Hard Way) See also:… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 46, number 1, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 45:3 is now publicly available. The next issue will be the TUG’25 proceedings; the… Continue Reading →
The (hopefully) final pre-release version for the 2025-06-01 LaTeX kernel to CTAN over the weekend. It’s now available for testing in TeX Live, and we’d like to encourage everyone to try it out. The focus has been mainly on improving… Continue Reading →
As most of us will probably know by now, machine learning has become a big part of digital humanities projects, especially in the computational humanities, and more and more people are trying to implement it. It’s becoming increasingly accessible, even… Continue Reading →
TUG 2025 conference (July 18-20, Trivandrum): Call for papers extended; remote presentations welcome
The call for papers for TUG’25 has been extended, as long as there is space in the schedule: cfp info. Any TeX- or typography-related topic is welcome, and remote presentations are also welcome. Here is the rest of the conference… Continue Reading →
This is a demonstration of how to write Japanese text in TikZ pictures, using luatexja.