The final pre-release version for the 2026-11-01 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 when the… Continue Reading →
In this blog post, I would like to argue for critical computational humanities. Computational humanities has many great advantages and promises. One of them is definitely the possibility of unlocking historical sources, using dazzling, cutting-edge new methods to look at… Continue Reading →
Update 17.9.26: Detailliertes Programm ergänzt Vom 25.–27. September 2026 findet die DANTE-Herbsttagung 2026 in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim statt. Alle, die sich für TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, Typografie und verwandte Themen interessieren und fachlichen wie persönlichen Austausch schätzen, sind herzlich willkommen! Der Veranstalter DANTE… Continue Reading →
The question of whether Digital Humanities (DH) is a discipline has had a whole moment, with many publications and discussions around questions like: What even makes a discipline? Has DH reached that status? How does discipline building work? How can… Continue Reading →
Talks at TUG 2026 (from the team and others) Frank, Ulrike and Marcel attended the TUG 2026 meeting in early August in Calgary. They presented two papers there Ulrike gave an update on the Tagged PDF project (video and paper),… Continue Reading →
The ltx-talk class has now reached v0.6, and we recently ran a workhop at DocEng’26 focussing on accessible presentations using ltx-talk. New features continue to be added, still focussing at the moment on tagging and content, with design something that… Continue Reading →
In late August, Ulrike, Frank, and I attended DocEng’26 Conference in Fribourg, Switzerland. We ran a half-day workshop on creating accessible presentations. We started with the core ideas around accessibility and how they impact on PDFs, before moving to look… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 47, number 2, the proceedings of the TUG’26 conference, is available online and from the TUG store. It will mail soon to current TUG members. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 47:1 is now publicly available. Submissions for the… Continue Reading →
Emacs 31.1 ist heute veröffentlicht worden. Bitte beachten: Die Download-URLs in der Ankündigung stimmen nicht. Es fehlt ein /gnu/in allen. Also bitte hier lang. Herunterladen und entpacken muss man den Tarball unter macOS Sequoia auf der Kommandozeile, und man braucht… Continue Reading →
These figures illustrates the interpretation of the 95% confidence interval in frequentist bayesian: If we repeatedly take samples and construct a 95% confidence interval with the same method, about 95% of those intervals would contain the true parameter. The figure… Continue Reading →
For a very short time, the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide is available at 34% off. Right now, the 400-page paperback edition costs the same as the Kindle edition. If you prefer turning real pages, this is a good opportunity. Only until… Continue Reading →
By now, we have all heard of computational humanities. We knew of digital humanities and digital history, but now, all of a sudden, it seems that computational history is a thing. I will not get into defining how these four… Continue Reading →
The webinar “Accessible Mathematical Content in PDF”, organized by the PDF Association on June 16th, was a great success from the feedback we received. The four panelists David Carlisle (LaTeX Project & editor of MathML at W3C), Boris Doubrov (Dual… Continue Reading →
We sent the 2026-06-01 release of the LaTeX kernel to CTAN at the weekend, and its already available in TeX Live (MiKTeX should follow soon). News from the tagging project Progress in embedding tagging code as part of a more… Continue Reading →
When Data Feminism came out in 2020, it felt like a perfect match for Digital Humanities. Here was a framework that took data seriously as a site of power, bias, and politics: exactly the kind of concerns some DH scholars… Continue Reading →
For a few days, the book LaTeX Graphics with TikZ is available at a 26% discount on Amazon.com. Here’s the publisher’s promotion link: packt.link/SJhg7 Take a look at TikZ.org for code examples, sample content, and readers’ reviews. If you purchase… Continue Reading →
For a few days, the book LaTeX Graphics with TikZ is available at a 26% discount on Amazon.com. Here’s the publisher’s promotion link: packt.link/SJhg7 Take a look at TikZ.org for code examples, sample content, and readers’ reviews. If you purchase… Continue Reading →
Better data leads to better research. That might sound obvious, but in practice, it’s often not where the attention goes. In conversations about AI, digital humanities, or computational research, the spotlight usually lands on models—new tools, new methods, new technical… Continue Reading →
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 fun… Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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。
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 第1章「TikZで始める」はTikZ入門だ。他のグラフィックスパッケージと比較してTikZの利点を論じる。TikZとは何かという全体像と独特の哲学を理解する。TikZをインストールする方法を学び、簡単な図を作成していく。さらに、TikZや他のパッケージのマニュアルなどを参照するための役立つヒントが得られる。 第2章「TikZで最初の画像を作る」では、LaTeX文書を一から作る。TikZの構文を理解して、2 次元および3 次元のデカルト座標と極座標を学ぶ。さらに、基本的な多角形の作り方、画像での色の使い方を学ぶ。 第3章「ノードの位置決めと描画」ではノードという基本的概念を与える。様々な形態のノードを位置決めして並べ、テキスト、画像、ラベルを追加する方法を学ぶ。 第4章「辺と矢印を描く」では、ノードの間を辺、直線、曲線、矢印でつなぐ方法を示す。辺にテキストラベルをつける方法や並べ方、位置、方向を調整する方法を学ぶ。線のスタイルや矢頭の形状をカスタマイズしたり両方向にする方法も学ぶ。 第5章「スタイルと画像の読み込み」では、TikZ要素をグローバルまたはローカルなstyleで定義して使う方法を学ぶ。ノードと辺でスタイルを使う方法とスコープを使って画像全体や画像の一部に対してスタイルを適用する方法を学ぶ。さらに、ミニTikZ画像を他の画像の構成要素として使う方法も学ぶ。 第6章「木とグラフの描画」では、親子の階層関係を表す木構造を作る方法を示す。アイデアを可視化するマインドマップの描き方やグラフを生成する簡潔な構文を与える。さらに、LaTeXのtabular環境と同様な行列形式にオブジェクトを配置する方法も示す。/p> 第7章「塗りつぶし、クリッピング、シェーディング」では、より高度な技法から始める。複雑なパスで塗りつぶす方法、特定の領域の画像をクリップしたり、ある色から別の色になめらかに色を変える方法を学ぶ。 第8章「パスの豊かな表現」では、線を曲げたりジグザグにしたり波打たせるようなクリエイティブな効果を加える技法を学ぶ。テキストを曲線に沿わせたり、1 つのパスに複数の作用を適用する方法も学ぶ。 第9章「レイヤー、オーバーレイ、透明性を使う」では、様々なレイヤーに描画して、オブジェクトをテキストや画像の背後に置く方法を学ぶ。透明性を使ってこの効果を上げる方法も学ぶ。さらに、TikZのビジュアルな注釈を通常のLaTeX文書にスーパーインポーズしたり、透かしのような背景画像を追加したりする方法を学ぶ。 第10章「座標とパスで計算する」では、TikZで座標値を計算する効率的な方法を示す。この章は座標計算、距離や射影を使った座標の計算、パスの交点の計算を扱う。また、repeatコマンドでループしてコードを簡単にする方法を学ぶ。 第11章「座標とキャンバスを変換する」では、変換による移動、回転、拡大縮小に焦点を絞る。図に対してちょっとした手直しや複雑な変更を加える必要がある場合に、適切な調整や位置変更ができるスキルを学ぶ。 第12章「なめらかな曲線を描く」では簡単な曲線の曲がりを変えたり、なめらかにして角の尖りをなくし、手書きのように簡単に曲線を描く様々な方法を学ぶ。 第13章「2Dおよび3Dでのプロット」では、座標系でデータをプロットする方法を扱う。2Dおよび3Dでデカルト座標と極座標の座標軸のカスタマイズ、凡例の追加、パラメトリック曲線のプロット、プロットの交点の計算、プロットの間の色塗りを扱う。 第14章「各種チャートを描く」では、フローチャート、関係図、説明図、数量を表す図の作り方を学ぶ。図全体を自動的に作れるようにパッケージの活用法を学ぶ。 第15章「TikZで楽しもう」では、スキルの高いTikZユーザが追加パッケージのプログラミングを楽しみTikZコミュニティでシェアする方法などを列挙する。かわいい動物、人物、国旗、パズルやゲームを描画する方法も学ぶ。… Continue Reading →
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 →