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Late this year, but I’m happy to have renewed my membership in the TeX Users Group. I became a member in 2011 as part of the institutional membership of StackExchange I suggested on meta. I had a joint membership (DANTE and… Continue Reading →
Just 5 days to go, then the hacker camp SHA2017 will start. The name stands for “Still Hacking Anyway”, and the camp belongs to a string of hacker camps that happen every 4 years. This year we will meet in… Continue Reading →
Do you know this delicious German pastry? (Photo by Guido Draheim). It’s called “ Spritzkuchen” or “Spritzring”. I thought of it when I was toying with TikZ and pgfplots. It’s similar to a twisted torus. Today I dealt with it… Continue Reading →
TeX Live 2017 has been published today. Note, we may need to wait a bit though, until the CTAN mirrors have replicated the software. Also, MacTeX 2017 is not yet ready for download, but it will follow very soon. Follow… Continue Reading →
(This article in German – auf Deutsch) At first I read it on LaTeX.org: there’s a Kickstarter project for creating a free and open source table editor for LaTeX. It’s written in JavaScript and can be web hosted. The goal of the project… Continue Reading →
Foreword We all know the two floating environments [cci_latex]table[/cci_latex] and [cci_latex]figure[/cci_latex] which almost all document classes provide. Every once in a while there is the need for another floating environment. For example chemists often need something like a [cci_latex]scheme[/cci_latex] environment…. Continue Reading →
It has been quite a while since I first published exsheets – a package for creating exercise sheets with LaTeX – in Juni 2012. Since then it has gained a user base and a little bit of popularity as the… Continue Reading →
It’s winter here, and we are waiting for snow. So we will use TeX instead of snow to build some fancy snowmen. For the impatient, there’s an Unicode snowman: . It’s U+2603. Copy and paste to use. For us TikZ… Continue Reading →
Happy Christmas to everyone! For all, who don’t celebrate christmas, have a great holiday season too! The picture of this greeting card was made in TikZ by cfr, our catcode specialist. (You noticed the cat.) What would christmas be without… Continue Reading →
Why do we make fancy things with TikZ? Because we can. Nils Fleischhacker created tikzpeople, a package for drawing people shapes with TikZ. It was heavily inspired by Microsoft Visio’s people shapes. It provides real pgf shapes with anchors for… Continue Reading →
Computer games and science fiction movies use procedural landscapes. Why not use TeX to generate some. The approach is: Using the diamond-square algorithm for generating the height map Using Lua for implementing the algorithm Print with pgfplots, that provides a comprehensive interface for… Continue Reading →
Since TikZ provides a mindmap library, drawing them is pretty easy: Define your styles Use the tree syntax for nesting nodes and children I liked to produce this drawing: And that’s the short code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[landscape]{geometry} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{mindmap} \usepackage{dtklogos} \begin{document}… Continue Reading →
Just testing this blog, why not writing a post as an exercise. In big projects I have hundreds of sub networks. There’s a lot of small transport networks with small subnet masks, that partition a summarizing net, and there are gateways…. Continue Reading →
Here is a small report about the TUG meeting we had during the TUG 2016 conference in Toronto. I already posted it on LaTeX-Community.org, where we collect TeX conference reports since years. At 4:15 the TUG meeting started. Jim Hefferon… Continue Reading →
Our fellow moderator Joseph wrote on his blog www.texdev.net, that from the next release on LaTeX2e will require e-TeX. Why? Wasn’t LaTeX2e intended to be stable, nowadays only getting bug fixes and new features? Could it break something? Well, e-TeX… Continue Reading →
Every tried running LyX on a Blackberry phone? Or iOS? No problem. Scott told us at LaTeX-Community.org, that there’s a cloud service for running LyX. He and me tested it, and it seems to work well. You can reach it at:… Continue Reading →
Several virulent diseases have broken out simultaneously all over the world – that’s the board game Pandemic Legacy. Your team of players travel around the world as disease-fighting specialists, researching cures for the plagues and treating disease hotspots. Dominik Wagenführ played that… Continue Reading →
Some of you probably already know that I also play a lot of music. Playing music in my case also requires writing lead sheets similar to the ones in the Real Book (for which I use MuseScore) and similar to… Continue Reading →
A diagram of the cognitive motivation model of Heckhausen and Rheinberg. I made it as an answer to a question at http://golatex.de/schaubild-mit-tikz-t16597.html styles are used styles base on other styles (inheritance) foreach-loops for repeating things a matrix is used for… Continue Reading →
There have been some changes both on the frontend and the backend side of www.mychemistry.eu: The forums have been deactivated and removed. After one year of testing the feedback was so small that I decided to not longer maintain and… Continue Reading →
A minor update of the LaTeX Thesis Template has been released. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. The documentation can be downloaded separately Note: There is a file embedded… Continue Reading →
Version 5.6 (2016/05/02) of chemmacros comes with a whole bunch of improvements and changes – no breaking changes, though. Here’s an overview over the changes: [cci_latex]base[/cci_latex] module: comfortably adding support for [cci_latex]cleveref[/cci_latex] and [cci_latex]fancyref[/cci_latex] with [cci_latex]\ChemCleverefSupport[/cci_latex] and [cci_latex]\ChemFancyrefSupport[/cci_latex] [cci_latex]lang[/cci_latex] module:… Continue Reading →
As of version 5.5 the [cci_latex]chemmacros[/cci_latex] package includes a new module named polymers. Currently it mostly defines a few macros for usage in the [cci_latex]\iupac[/cci_latex] command (provided by the mandatory nomenclature module) such as [cce_latex]\NewChemIUPAC\copolymer {\textit{co}} \NewChemIUPAC\statistical{\textit{stat}} \NewChemIUPAC\random {\textit{ran}} \NewChemIUPAC\alternating{\textit{alt}}… Continue Reading →
A minor update of the LaTeX Thesis Template has been released. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. The documentation can be downloaded separately Note: There is a file embedded… Continue Reading →
I published version 5 of chemmacros nearly two months ago and so far the transition seems to have been a lot smoother than I anticipated. There have been a few support emails and posts on TeX/LaTeX stackexchange but nothing too… Continue Reading →
A mindmap showing TeX projects supported by DANTE e.V., the german language TeX user group with home page at www.dante.de DANTE sponsors their server costs for the web sites shown in the mindmap. TeX forums TeX galleries TeX blogs Tools,… Continue Reading →
A simple tree with a style for all nodes. Edit and compile if you like: % A simple Tree % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[sibling distance=10em, every node/.style = {shape=rectangle, rounded corners, draw, align=center, top color=white,… Continue Reading →
A bar chart can be used for comparing values. Here we create a horizontal bar chart. The pgfplots package provides an easy way. In this example, I reduced axis data to focus on the values. So I do not show… Continue Reading →
A priority chart showing a common TeX workflow from bottom to top, using the smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A bottom-up chart of a TeX workflow % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[priority… Continue Reading →
A diagram showing various TikZ drawing tasks, using the smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A descriptive diagram of TikZ tasks % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[descriptive diagram]{ {Style,{Define shapes, colors, shading, and… Continue Reading →
A mindmap of TeX concepts. Edit and compile if you like: % Mindmap % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border = 60pt]{standalone} \usepackage[landscape]{geometry} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{mindmap} \usepackage{metalogo} \usepackage{dtklogos} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \path [ mindmap, text = white, level 1 concept/.append style =… Continue Reading →
A horizontal tree, growing to the right. I created a basic style for tree nodes, and derived styles for specific kinds of nodes. Edit and compile if you like: % Decision tree % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz}… Continue Reading →
A flowchart showing how we may choose a math environment. It shows using styles, placing nodes in a matrix, and drawing arrows using loops. Edit and compile if you like: % Flowchart % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=20pt]{standalone} \usepackage[a4paper,vmargin=3cm]{geometry}… Continue Reading →
PDF blend mode requires TikZ version 3.0 or above. Edit and compile if you like: % A Venn diagram with PDF blending % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{scope}[blend group = soft light] \fill[red!30!white] ( 90:1.2)… Continue Reading →
A flowchart showing a common TeX workflow, using the smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A flowchart of a TeX workflow % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[flow diagram:horizontal]{Edit, \LaTeX, Bib\TeX/ biber, make\-index, \LaTeX}… Continue Reading →
A diagram showing a TeX workflow using the clever smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A circular diagram of a TeX workflow % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[circular diagram:clockwise]{Edit, pdf\LaTeX, Bib\TeX/ biber, make\-index,… Continue Reading →
A diagram of TeX engines using the clever smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A diagram of TeX engines % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \usepackage{metalogo} \usepackage{dtklogos} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[bubble diagram]{\TeX\ engines, \TeX\ (dvi), pdf\TeX, \XeTeX,… Continue Reading →
A diagram presenting TeX software using the smartdiagram package. Edit and compile if you like: % A diagram of TeX software % Author: Stefan Kottwitz % https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/latex-cookbook \documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{smartdiagram} \begin{document} \smartdiagram[constellation diagram]{\TeX\ software, Editor, Compiler, Converter, PDF Reader} \end{document} Click… Continue Reading →
My leadsheets package is one of my newer packages. It seems to already have some fans – I get the occasional email asking for support and on github it has at the moment of writing 7 people who watch it… Continue Reading →
A minor update of the LaTeX Thesis Template has been released. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. The documentation can be downloaded separately Note: There is a file embedded… Continue Reading →
A minor update of the LaTeX Thesis Template has been released. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. The documentation can be downloaded separately Note: There is a file embedded… Continue Reading →
A few days ago I released a beta Version of my LaTeX-Thesis-Template on code.google.com. This Version is complete and tested with TeX Live 2013 on Windows 7, 64 bit. However since it has been completely rewritten and only been tested… Continue Reading →
Die folgenden Folien und Übungen wurden in einer zweitägigen Einführung von LaTeX verwendet. Die Zielausrichtung lag auf der Erstellung von einfachen Protokollen mit Ausblicken auf Themen, die bei Bachelor und Masterarbeiten relevant sind. Note: There is a file embedded within… Continue Reading →
A simple example of a commutative diagram using TikZ, short and readable. It has been posted as answer to the question http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/45741/213 of Elias. A matrix is used for positioning the main nodes Arrows are drawn as edges, between the… Continue Reading →
In graph theory, models and drawings often consists mostly of vertices, edges, and labels. So, it may be possible, to use a simpler language for generating a diagram of a graph. The tkz-graph package offers a convenient interface. The code… Continue Reading →
Die folgenden Folien und Übungen dienten zur eintägigen Einführung von LaTeX für die Erstellung von Bachelor und Masterarbeiten. Note: There is a file embedded within this post, please visit this post to download the file. Note: There is a file… Continue Reading →
A submatrix within a matrix should be highlightened. Instead of simply drawing a rectangle, we can use TikZ for producing a rectangle node, using the fit library for fitting the desired area, defining a style for the highlighted node, so… Continue Reading →
A calendar example from the PGF manual. Modifications are changes in font family and size commands shaded background circle shaded month circles font sizes and distances. Edit and compile if you like: % A calendar of circles % Author: Till… Continue Reading →