Author Stefan Kottwitz

The author Stefan Kottwitz studied mathematics in Jena and Hamburg. He works as a network and IT security engineer for Lufthansa Industry Solutions.

For many years, he has been providing LaTeX support on online forums. He maintains the web forums LaTeX.org and goLaTeX.de and the Q&A sites TeXwelt.de and TeXnique.fr. He runs the TeX graphics gallery sites TeXample.net and PGFplots.net, the TeXdoc.org service, and CTAN LaTeX software mirrors. He is a moderator of the TeX Stack Exchange site and on matheplanet.com. He publishes ideas and news from the TeX world on his blogs LaTeX.net and TeX.co. He authored the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide in 2011, with the second edition in 2021, the LaTeX Cookbook in 2015 and 2024, and LaTeX Graphics with TikZ in 2023, with a Japanese edition in 2024.