Category LaTeX Alive (Will Robertson)
I have a bright and shiny new home: http://wspr.io See you there š See also: Original Source by Will Robertson
The name of this site is not very accurate at the moment. Life has become rather busy and complicated in the last few years, so apologies to any readers that hoped for more from me on the LaTeX front. I… Continue Reading →
As an aside before I start work on belatedly fixing some of unicode-mathās more pressing shortcomings, Iāve also started work tidying up the breqn package: https://github.com/wspr/breqn The breqn package was the brainchild of Michael J. Downes (of amsmath fame), and… Continue Reading →
Major releases of fontspec donāt happen too often: v2.1 2010 / 09 v2.2 2011 / 09 v2.2b 2012 / 05 (“TeX Live 2012”) v2.3 2013 / 02 v2.4 2014 / 06 The new version on its way to CTAN now… Continue Reading →
LaTeXās support for graphics through the graphicx package is reliable and works well, but occasionally I find its options somewhat limiting. One thing that often causes me to stop and immediately recompile a document Iām working on happens when an… Continue Reading →
When using a numerical bibliography style, itās considered bad form (at least by me) to have a linebreak before the citation. You might see suggestions in LaTeX guides to write … something profound~\cite{robertson2013}. to avoid the citation number (ā[72]ā, or… Continue Reading →
Iām a big fan of the refstyle package. (Before I knew it existed, I started writing something similar myself. Iām glad I found refstyle before it was too late!) The refstyle package automates the use of cross references; while vanilla… Continue Reading →
Very behind on taking care of the Herries Press packages (PDF) which Iām maintaining. Apologies to all who have emailed with suggestions, comments, and questions, and to whom Iāve unfortunately not been able to respond. Funny request today: how can… Continue Reading →
In May 2012, Javier Bezos wrote the following message to the LaTeX-L mailing list: Babel gets back on track and it is again actively maintained. The goals are mainly to fix bugs, to make it compatible with XeTeX and LuaTeX… Continue Reading →
Somewhat to my surprise, I have a new version of pstool to release. This is a LaTeX package I maintain that provide an easy workflow (I hope) for including psfrag graphics into pdfLaTeX documents. This allows, say, graphs from Matlab… Continue Reading →
Hereās a photo I took of Donald Knuth at the TUG 2010 conference during his āEarthshaking Announcementā. Iām not sure exactly how it has been distributed (perhaps Facebook) but I see itās now floating around the internet. Iām not a… Continue Reading →
This yearās been a bit of a rollercoaster for being busy and trying to make decisions. After flipping-flopping over the last six months, Iāve decided at the last minute to attend TUG 2012 in Boston in July. (Thanks to Steve… Continue Reading →
Lucida Math OpenType As part of the next incarnation of the Lucida typefaces, Iāve been testing out the OpenType versions of the maths fonts. Itās fair to say that most people will have seen a Lucida font in one form… Continue Reading →
Non-textual tabular requirements I once wrote a procedure for drawing tabulars with square cells; it was one of my earliest experiences with LaTeX programming, actually. When Iād done so, I received a comment āwhy doesnāt LaTeX allow this easilyā? Well,… Continue Reading →
The latest version of fontspec now returns proper error messages when a font cannot be found: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ./small.tex:6: ! fontspec error: “font-not-found” ! ! The font “Ggeorgia” cannot be found. ! ! See the fontspec documentation for further information. !… Continue Reading →
The latest issue of the PracTeX Journal (discl.: I used to be a production editor there some years back) contains a set of interesting challenges: typeset and solve a KenKen puzzle. I havenāt seen this puzzle before; it looks fun… Continue Reading →
Trends in recent years for texhax and the Mac OS X TeX mailing lists. And a comparison with tex.stackexchange.com. Manuel PĆ©gouriĆ©-Gonnard asked whether Iād looked at the number of posts to the texhax mailing list when I posted last night… Continue Reading →
With new LaTeX sites around nowadays such as tex.stackexchange.com and latex-community.org, it seems that the comp.text.tex newsgroup, the mainstay of the TeX support world, is in decline. Newsgroups in 2011 are an anachronism from the younger days of the internet,… Continue Reading →
Funny problem in mathtools vs. francais babel. (Only a coincidence that Iām debugging two babel problems back-to-back.) Morten HĆøgholmās mathtools package has an option to turn the colon into an active character so that writing := produces a colon-equals sign… Continue Reading →
A user of Peter Wilsonās fonttable package reported an interesting bug in the interaction between it and the Spanish module (if not others) of babel. Hereās the problem in a nutshell: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[spanish]{babel} \begin{document} $\lim x_n$ {\font\x=cmr10\x hello} $\lim x_n$… Continue Reading →