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AUCTeX 14 ist veröffentlicht worden. Leider gibt es ein Problem beim Upgrade. Das Setup läuft nicht sauber durch, wenn schon eine frühere Version von AUCTeX installiert und aktiv ist. Emacs friert ein und läuft mit einer Prozessorlast von 100 Prozent. In… Continue Reading →
Die LaTeX-Unterstützung für deutschsprachige Texte babel-german kann nun auch gendern. In der heute auf CTAN veröffentlichten Version 2.14 wurden Shorthands für den Genderstern “*, den Doppelpunkt “: und den Unterstrich “_ neu eingeführt, die die Trennstellen eines Worts unberührt lassen. Eingedenk… Continue Reading →
Hier die Darstellung einer ADSR Hüllkurve (Quelle: Wikipedia) mit TikZ: \begin{tikzpicture} %\draw[step=0.5cm,lightgray,thin] (0,0) grid (10,7); \draw[very thick, black,->](1,1) — (9.5,1); \draw[very thick, black,->](1,1) — (1,6.5); \draw[very thick, green,](3,1) — (3,6); \draw[very thick, orange,](5,1) — (5,6); \draw[very thick, black](7,1) — (7,6);… Continue Reading →
GNU Emacs 29.2 ist heute veröffentlicht worden. ./configure – make – make install lief unter macOS Ventura problemlos durch. GNU Emacs 29.2 (build 1, aarch64-apple-darwin22.6.0, NS appkit-2299.70 Version 13.6.3 (Build 22G436)) of 2024-01-18 Der Programmstart ist ein bisschen umständlich, weil man… Continue Reading →
Es gibt ein neues Paket auf CTAN, thematicpuzzle. Damit gehen dann TikZ-basiert Dinge wie die folgenden (der Anleitung entnommen): Uwe Uwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me… Continue Reading →
Unter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMCj_EPDms8 ist jetzt das geschnittene Video meines Vortrags zur „Formularerstellung mit eforms“ online. Uwe Uwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me for it? Consider making a… Continue Reading →
Mi dem pylualatex Paket gibt es eine neue Möglichkeit, Python und LaTeX miteinander zu „verheiraten“. Das Besondere an diesem Paket ist, dass es keine zwei Durchläufe benötigt, sondern nur einen einzigen. %!TEX TS-program = Arara % arara: lualatex: {shell: yes}… Continue Reading →
So setzt man den TeX Live mirror auf einen der zentralen Server: tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet Uwe Uwe Ziegenhagen likes LaTeX and Python, sometimes even combined. Do you like my content and would like to thank me for it? Consider… Continue Reading →
A major update of the LaTeX Thesis Template has been released.This release is based on LuaLaTeX instead of pdflatex. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. The documentation can be… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 44, number 3, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 44:2 is now publicly available. Submissions for the next regular issue are also welcome… Continue Reading →
The TUG conference 2023 in Bonn was a hybrid conference, i.e., all talks were recorded and also streamed. The recordings have been cut and cleaned up by a few relentless volunteers and are now available on YouTube. All in all,… Continue Reading →
Derzeit gibt es ein Problem mit der TeX Live Utility (TLU), die mit der TeX-Distribution MacTeX ausgeliefert wird. Standardmäßig werden Updates unter MacTeX über die TeX Live Utility eingespielt. Nun steht ein Upgrade des TeX-Live-Paketmanagers tlmgr an, das zwar von… Continue Reading →
Annual cuti-cuti Malaysia calendar! This year I’ve made quite a lot of updates to the underlying code for cdcalendar; the documentation has been shaken up quite a bit too. The Cuti-cuti Malaysia 2024 calendar LaTeX files is available as an… Continue Reading →
Understanding the material aspects of historical books is crucial. Unlike modern books, copies from the same print run of historical read more Why Do We Need to Digitize the Materiality of Pre-Modern Books? See also: Original Source by The LaTeX… Continue Reading →
Controlling expansion has been a key part of expl3 from day one. A basic expl3 function name such as \foo:nn shows how many unmodified braced arguments it takes: so called n-type arguments. We can then create variants, which can lead… Continue Reading →
Auf der Mailingliste aquamacs-devel bei Google Groups griff gestern ein Benutzer die Ankündigung von Maintainer Win Treese von vor einem Jahr wieder auf, er arbeite an Aquamacs 4. Win antwortete letzte Nacht, es sei ihm gelungen, einen Aquamacs auf der Basis… Continue Reading →
Everybody is talking about “materiality” but what does that even mean? It’s actually kind of hard to understand the materiality read more What do we mean by ‘materiality’ in the context of rare book digitization? See also: Original Source by… Continue Reading →
(I like this so much that I’ll repost it here after writing about it on the Overleaf blog!) It’s now possible to use Citation Style Language stylesheets (.csl files) to format citations and reference lists in LaTeX documents! Make sure… Continue Reading →
Standard Model particles plotted as mass versus lifetime to show its stability in the context of high-energy physics detectors such as the CMS detector. Note the average decay length is given by L = γβcτ = (pc/mc2)(cτ), because β =… Continue Reading →
Summary of the elementary particles of the Standard Model, & extensions. Inspired by the commonly used Wikipedia image. The Standard Model Transparent, and grouping particles by interaction with vector bosons: With boxes fully colored: Including the hypothetical graviton (tensor boson,… Continue Reading →
Summary of the elementary Standard Model particles. Inspired by Quanta Magazine and Symmetry Magazine. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (July 2023) % Description: % Standard Model (SM) of Particles Physics table (round) % Inspired by:… Continue Reading →
Matrix of the different types of decays of a pair of Standard Model particles like the tau lepton, W boson, top, Higgs, … Decay modes of two tau leptons (where τh stands for hadronic decay):Branching fractions of ditau decay:Branching fractions… Continue Reading →
Some custom piecharts illustrating the branching fraction of the decay of several Standard Model particles like the tau lepton, Z boson, W boson, top, ttbar, Higgs boson, … Tau lepton decay Ditau decay W boson (or top) decay Same for… Continue Reading →
Meson octets/nonets (Gell-Man’s Eightfold Way), baryon octets & decuplets by plotting strangeness vs. isospin. Pseudoscalar meson nonet Vector meson nonet Baryon octet Baryon decuplet Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (July 2023) % Description: % Meson… Continue Reading →
Graphical representation of the weak hypercharge Y & isospin I3 quantum number (of U(1)Y and SU(2)L) of the Standard Model particles, as well as for different types of leptoquarks. Inspired by this image on Wikipedia. All Standard Model fields:All Standard… Continue Reading →
Physics domains at different spacetime scales & the Bronshtein cube (or “Bronstein cube”). Inspired by “EUREKA!: Physics of Particles, Matter and the Universe” by R.J Blin-Stoyle. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (June 2022) % https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/91/10/819/2911822/All-objects-and-some-questions?redirectedFrom=fulltext… Continue Reading →
Showing the different possible and impossible spacetime dimensions. Reproduction of Figure 1 in “On the dimensionality of spacetime” (1997) by M. Tegmark (arXiv:gr-qc/9702052). Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (June 2022) % Inspiration: % “On the… Continue Reading →
Illustration of the effects of new physics on the high-mass or high-pT tails in proton-proton collisions at detectors like CMS. Also shown are expected excesses in observed data, constructive vs. destructive interference, etc. Edit and compile if you like: %… Continue Reading →
Transverse plane of the CMS detector, and illustrating the concept of missing transverse momentum or energy (MET). Also shown are there tracks and calorimeter deposits of a jet. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (April 2022)… Continue Reading →
Signatures of long-lived particles in the CMS detector. Inspired by J. Antonelli’s presentation at ICHEP 2016. Summary of all signatures: Displaced dilepton: Displaced lepton: Heavy long-lived charged particle (HSCP): Disappearing track: Displaced dijet: Displaced vertex: Displaced conversion: Displaced photon: Displaced… Continue Reading →
Decay of the Z boson to leptons. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (Februari 2023) % Description: Decay of the Z boson to leptons. \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \usetikzlibrary{math} % for \tikzmath \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} % for arrow size \usetikzlibrary{decorations.pathmorphing}… Continue Reading →
Beamspot profile in the CMS detector with pileup vertices & tracks. Made for this CMS paper on the measurement of the γγ → ττ process in proton-proton collisions and the measurement of the anomalous magnetic moment of the τ lepton… Continue Reading →
Vertex reconstruction of two photon decay in the CMS detector. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (August 2023) % Description: Vertex reconstruction of two photon decay % https://indico.cern.ch/event/1296197/#4-exo-23-012-search-for-displa \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage[outline]{contour} % glow around text \usetikzlibrary{calc}… Continue Reading →
Some examples of a simple flowchart for the categorization of events. A straight arrow with two corners and straight lines is drawn using a simple macro and the calc library: \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usetikzlibrary{calc} % for calculating coordinates in \connect \tikzset{>=latex} \def\connect[#1]… Continue Reading →
Unofficial logo of CMS to be used for creative and fun variations only! Please do NOT use for official publications! You can find official CMS logos here. Note that to run this code, you need to install the classico font… Continue Reading →
Unofficial logo of CERN to be used for creative and fun variations only! Please do NOT use for official publications! Note that to run this code, you need to install the classico font (which is the LaTeX-equivalent for Optima). Alternatively,… Continue Reading →
Graphical interpretation of the complex roots of a quadratic equation. Inspired by this post and this paper. Edit and compile if you like: % Author: Izaak Neutelings (April 2022) % Inspiration: % https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/401745/help-understanding-complex-roots % https://doi.org/10.5539/jmr.v10n6p91 \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{physics} \usepackage[outline]{contour}… Continue Reading →
Impact parameter of semileptonic B hadron decay in proton collisions, with tau decay to three pions. % Author: Izaak Neutelings (October 2019) \documentclass[border=3pt,tikz]{standalone} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{esvect} % \vv \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{patterns,decorations.pathmorphing} \tikzset{>=latex} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \usetikzlibrary{intersections} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \usetikzlibrary{angles,quotes} % for pic \newcommand\Bc{{\mathrm{B}}} \newcommand\Jpsi{{\mathrm{J}\!/\!\psi}} \newcommand{\tikzAngleOfLine}{\tikz@AngleOfLine}… Continue Reading →
Kurz vor dem Wochenende traf die dritte Auflage des LaTeX Companion, des TLC3, ein. Zwei Bände mit zusammengenommen gut 1900 Seiten. 18 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen der deutschen Übersetzung der zweiten Auflage. Ein enormer Gewinn für alle Benutzer und eine große Freude,… Continue Reading →
Illustration of the construction of the MT2 variable from jet and MET vectors used in SUSY searches at CMS & ATLAS, for example in arXiv:1909.03460. The figure was presented at a talk in Pheno2021. Edit and compile if you like:… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 44, number 2, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 44:1 is now publicly available. Submissions for the next regular issue are also welcome… Continue Reading →
Beim Umstieg von macOS Monterey auf Ventura war auffällig, dass die neu hinzugekommenen Programme, wie beispielsweise die Uhr, nicht mehr konfigurierbar sind. Es gibt kein Preference Pane, man kann sie nur noch so benutzen, wie sie angeboten werden. Ich kann… Continue Reading →
Hinweis: Siehe auch den späteren Beitrag, in dem eine weitere Lösung für das nachstehend beschriebene Problem beschrieben wird. Zu den Features, die in Emacs 29.1, an dessen Konfiguration ich derzeit arbeite, nicht out of the box funktionieren, zählt die Rechtschreibprüfung Flyspell…. Continue Reading →
Nachdem Jörg Kantel nebenan mit Visual Studio Code so ausgesprochen zufrieden ist, habe ich mir den Nachfolger des eigentlich unsäglichen Atom natürlich auch mal angesehen – und war überrascht. Schöne Integration in macOS und viele nützliche Erweiterungen, auch für Wikitext,… Continue Reading →
Right from the first version, siunitx has supported uncertainty values in numbers. Uncertainties are a key piece of information about a lot of scientific values, and so it’s important to have a convenient way to present them. The most common… Continue Reading →
Today’s blog post is a teaser for a video class called Computer Vision for Digital Humanities (funded by CLARIAH-AT with the support of BMBWF). The self-learning resource (video lessons plus Jupyter notebooks) is an introduction to Computer Vision methods for… Continue Reading →
During the annual conference of the DHd Association, the Empowerment Working Group organized a workshop on the topic of Data Feminism in the Digital Humanities (organized by Luise Borek, Nora Probst & Sarah Lang, technical support: Yael Lämmerhirt)[1]. This short… Continue Reading →
That’s the hippo from the tikzlings package with a thought bubble and a toy lightsaber serving as a flagpole for the flag of his homeland Malawi, done with the worldflags package. \documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikzlings} \usepackage{worldflags} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \hippo[body=brown!60!black, lightsaber=brown, think={\textsf{The end}}]… Continue Reading →