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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 →
This is from my tweet here, an example illustrating the tikzbricks package that I featured in the fun section of my new TikZ book. (It shall be released in July, you can follow me on Twitter for updates.) \documentclass[tikz,svgnames,border=20pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikzbricks}… Continue Reading →
TUGboat volume 44, number 1, has been mailed to TUG members. It is also available online and from the TUG store. In addition, prior TUGboat issue 43:3 is now publicly available. The next issue will be the TUG’23 proceedings; the… Continue Reading →
After having worked about 18 years on getting Debian users a great TeX experience, things have turned sour between Debian and me. So I think it is time to look a bit at my contributions over these years, for this… Continue Reading →
For some years now, I have been maintaining the course notes for my graduate course as a website rather than a PDF document. I started with handwritten course notes the first time I taught the course, and then I typed… Continue Reading →
A website and what it means to us The Island of TeX is all about the TeX community and providing tools to its ecosystem. We have always tried and will always try our best to be present in the TeX… Continue Reading →
Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2023. The biggest change in this year’s release is the switch to 64bit Windows binaries, and renaming the binary directory from win32 to windows. This change triggered… Continue Reading →
Modelling is central to the Digital Humanities. Even so much that some claim it is what unites the DH as a field or discipline! But what is modelling? What do we mean by it anyway? This post will hopefully provide… Continue Reading →
A great welcome to the new year — wnarifin has agreed to take up the maintenance of usmthesis! Please follow new updates at https://github.com/wnarifin/usmthesis. The old repo is now archived. Thank you again wnarifin! See also: Original Source by LianTze… Continue Reading →
I’ll cut to the chase: Cuti-cuti Malaysia calendar for 2023! PDF for Penang version: download here. For other states download the .zip or clone this Overleaf project to your own Overleaf account. Change \def\mylocation{Penang} to e.g. \def\mylocation{Selangor} If you would… Continue Reading →
The LaTeX Thesis Template will be released soon with a new updated version with a new code using LuaLaTeX. It was already available when my first LaTeX Template was released in 2013. Since that time, a lot has happened in… Continue Reading →
Today’s post is a short introduction to digital scholarly editing. I will explain some basic principles (so mostly theory) and point you to a few resources you will need to get started in a more practical fashion. I’m teaching a… Continue Reading →
It is quite natural to think that separating a word up into individual characters is quite easy. It turns out that for the computer this isn’t really the case. If we look at a system that understands Unicode (like XeTeX… Continue Reading →