Category LaTeX.net – Articles and News (Stefan Kottwitz)

The second, improved, and extended edition of the LaTeX Cookbook was published this month, March 2024. The first edition, published in 2015, has been revised, and the code examples have been updated to work with the latest classes and packages… Continue Reading →

Dienstag abend hat die LaTeX Community Twitter erfolgreich durchgespielt: es wurde das Level erreicht, dass LaTeX in Deutschland auf Twitter trendet, den Abend lang. Und zwar in der korrekten Schreibweise, wichtig. Keine andere Sache. Was ist passiert? Wir haben uns… Continue Reading →

That’s an English translation a German blog post that you can find here: LaTeX.net/verein. I’d like to support promoting becoming a new member of DANTE e.V. because I wish to see more LaTeX friends here. February 8, 2022: More than… Continue Reading →

An English translation of this post is here: LaTeX.net/members. Da ich mir mehr LaTeX-Freunde für unseren Verein DANTE e.V. wünsche, möchte ich die Werbung von Neumitgliedern mit einem LaTeX-Buch unterstützen. 8. Februar 2022: Mehr als 10 Bücher verfügbar. Warum DANTE-Mitglied… Continue Reading →

In the TeX world, the name Stefan Kottwitz is best known for the websites and forums he runs, but Stefan is not just a server admin but also a book author. The first edition of his LaTeX beginners book was… Continue Reading →

Antioch Sanders told us on LaTeX.org about his new project that he called extexify. That’s a browser extension for finding LaTeX symbols by drawing them with mouse or finger on the display. It is inspired by detexify, but works integrated… Continue Reading →

The following text is in German because it’s about the German language user group meeting 2021. Im vergangenen Jahr sind leider beide DANTE-Tagungen wegen der Pandemie ausgefallen. Die Frühjahrstagung fand wegen der Kontaktbeschränkungen komplett online statt. Auch die Herbsttagung wird… Continue Reading →

In 2020, the Island of TeX introduced Docker images for easily reproducible builds as well as a semi-official response to the need for continuous integration. These images were among the first using vanilla TeX Live, providing the required tools for… Continue Reading →