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Major releases of fontspec don’t 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 →
LaTeX’s 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 I’m working on happens when an… Continue Reading →
Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens, with Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley. The LATEX Companion -– 2nd ed. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-201-36299-6. 2004, Pearson Education, Inc., Boston, MA. Courtesey: Paulo Cereda The 1,200 pages long The… Continue Reading →
An Aspiring Scientist’s Frustration with Modern-Day Academia: A Resignation On Leaving Academe Machine Learning that Matters
Hello friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today’s interview: our friend Khaled Hosny, 13k+ rep, 96+ badges, a very active member of our community and our XeTeX/LuaTeX resident expert. Get ready for this awesome… Continue Reading →
Nasser M. Abbassi had filed a feature request at TeX4ht project for multicolumn support in TeX4ht which is lacking at the moment. This link provides the latest specifications of W3C relating to multicolumn layout in HTML which some of the… Continue Reading →
When using a numerical bibliography style, it’s 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 (‘[72]’, or… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today’s interview: our friend Nicola Talbot, 3k+ rep, 20+ badges, 55+ answers, package writer, and author of a great series of TeXnical books! Get ready for this awesome interview!… Continue Reading →
I’m a big fan of the refstyle package. (Before I knew it existed, I started writing something similar myself. I’m glad I found refstyle before it was too late!) The refstyle package automates the use of cross references; while vanilla… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for today’s interview: our friend Leo Liu, 33k+ rep, 217+ badges, 467+ answers, author of the zhmCJK package, and a very active member in our community. Get ready for this awesome… Continue Reading →
Very behind on taking care of the Herries Press packages (PDF) which I’m maintaining. Apologies to all who have emailed with suggestions, comments, and questions, and to whom I’ve 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 →
Dear friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for today’s interview: our friend Marc van Dongen, author of an awesome book on LaTeX and friends, and a movie star! Get ready for this awesome interview! Paulo Cereda… 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 →
I have for long ignored blogging, but today I came across the useful linux command “paste” and I thought I should write it down. In the past I have used quite a few smart tricks to handle data or output… Continue Reading →
Here’s a photo I took of Donald Knuth at the TUG 2010 conference during his “Earthshaking Announcement”. I’m not sure exactly how it has been distributed (perhaps Facebook) but I see it’s now floating around the internet. I’m not a… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Ulrike Fischer, 41k+ rep, 181+ badges, and our font expert. Get ready for this awesome interview! Paulo Cereda Dear friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! Our interviewee… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Peter Grill, 56k+ rep, 301+ badges, and our resident TikZ expert. Get ready for this awesome interview! Joseph Wright Dear friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! Our… Continue Reading →
Hello there, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Joseph Wright, one of our TeX.sx moderators, 60k+ rep, 415 badges, member of the LaTeX3 team, member of the biblatex taskforce together with Philip… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Aditya Mahajan, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, 18k+ rep, 91+ badges (including the ConTeXt badge), 310+ answers so far, and our resident ConTeXt… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Philip Kime, also known as PLK, our biber/biblatex expert. He’s the project leader of the biblatex task force, together with Audrey and Joseph Wright, and a great… Continue Reading →
This post discusses the creation of beamer presentations using a combination of markdown, pandoc, and LaTeX. This workflow offers the potential to reduce typing and increase readability of beamer presentation source code. Source code for an example presentation is provided… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the *TeXtalk!* We have a very special guest for today: our friend [Andrew Stacey](http://tex.stackexchange.com/users/86), a well-known member of our community, trusted user, 40k+ rep, 274 badges, and one of the resident TikZ experts. Get ready for this great… Continue Reading →
The following post documents the steps I needed to take in order to convert a project using Sweave LaTeX into one using knitr LaTeX. Additional Resources It is fairly straightforward to convert a document from Sweave LaTeX to knitr LaTeX…. Continue Reading →
The following is the Cayley graph , where is the additive group of the vector space (where is the field of three elements), and . \begin{tikzpicture} \tikzset{VertexStyle/.style={draw,rectangle}} \grEmptyCycle*[rotation=90,prefix=a,RA=2,Math]{{(1,2)},{(0,0)},{(2,1)}} \grEmptyCycle*[rotation=90,prefix=b,RA=4.5,Math]{(2,0),(1,0),(1,1),(0,1),(0,2),(2,2)} \EdgeInGraphLoop{b}{6} \SetUpEdge[style={bend right=10}] \EdgeDoubleMod{a}{3}{0}{1}{b}{6}{1}{2}{3} \EdgeDoubleMod{a}{3}{0}{1}{b}{6}{2}{2}{3} \SetUpEdge[style={bend left=10}] \EdgeDoubleMod{a}{3}{0}{1}{b}{6}{4}{2}{3} \EdgeDoubleMod{a}{3}{0}{1}{b}{6}{5}{2}{3} \end{tikzpicture} See… Continue Reading →
This year’s been a bit of a rollercoaster for being busy and trying to make decisions. After flipping-flopping over the last six months, I’ve decided at the last minute to attend TUG 2012 in Boston in July. (Thanks to Steve… Continue Reading →
Only time for a short post. Foreign words are italicized frequently in English; however, et al., i.e., e.g., and etc. probably should not be. It draws unnecessary attention to the words and modern style manuals will tell you not to… Continue Reading →
The purpose of the new package graphiso.sty is to use tkz-graph to produce an animation of a graph isomorphism in a beamer presentation, such as: You can find documentation and code at Github: rvf0068/graphiso.sty. See also: Original Source by Rafael
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend David Carlisle, member of the LaTeX3 project, editor of the MathML spec, a very active member of TeX.sx, 16k+ rep, 104 badges, and 325+ answers so… Continue Reading →
Hola amigos, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Gonzalo Medina, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, trusted user (44k+ rep), with 849+ answers so far and 208+ badges. Get ready… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Patrick Gundlach, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, close to 9k+ rep, 92+ badges (including the LuaTeX badge), 116+ answers, one of our representatives… Continue Reading →
\begin{tikzpicture} \begin{scope}[rotate=90] \grIcosahedral[form=1,RA=3,RB=1.5] \SetUpEdge[color=white,style={double=black,double distance=2pt}] \EdgeInGraphLoop{a}{6} \EdgeFromOneToSel{a}{b}{0}{1,5} \Edges(a2,b1,b3,b5,a4) \Edge(a3)(b3) \Edges(a1,b1,b5,a5) \Edges(a2,b3,a4) \end{scope} \end{tikzpicture} See also: Original Source by Rafael
Welcome to the TeXtalk! The special guest for today is our friend Yiannis Lazarides, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, a trusted user (34k+), 231+ badges and 444+ answers so far. Get ready for this great interview! Paulo… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for our second interview of the year: our friend Jürnjakob Dugge, also known as Jake, hi-rep user (32K+), 460+ answers so far, 178+ badges, and TikZ/PGF guru! It was a great… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! For our first interview of the year, we have a special guest: our friend Werner, hi-rep user (31k+), 792+ answers, 162 badges, one of the most active users of our community. It was a great interview!… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! For the third episode of the series, we have a legendary guest: our friend Martin Scharrer, TeX.sx moderator, highest rep user (54k+) and package-writing machine! Martin is surely the TeX version of Jon Skeet. It was… Continue Reading →
The cases environment defined by the amsmath package sets each case to be inline math style. This will look ugly when the formulas in the cases are complicated, such as fractions or integrals. Consider the following sample code: usepackage{amsmath} [… Continue Reading →
Welcome to the TeXtalk! For the second episode of the series, we have another special guest: our friend Thomas Titz, also known as lockstep, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, a trusted user (36k+), 650+ answers so far,… Continue Reading →
http://melusine.eu.org/syracuse/pstricks/ Many fantastic PSTricks examples.
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for the very first episode of the series: our friend Enrico Gregorio, also known as egreg, one of the most active members of TeX.sx, a trusted user (40k+) with 1075+ answers… Continue Reading →
This post is an update for this post from my old blog, which did not work with the newer versions of tkz-berge. The changes are: instead of \tikzstyle{every node} = [node distance=1.5cm] one now has to use the macro: \SetGraphUnit{1.5},… Continue Reading →
Lucida Math OpenType As part of the next incarnation of the Lucida typefaces, I’ve been testing out the OpenType versions of the maths fonts. It’s fair to say that most people will have seen a Lucida font in one form… Continue Reading →
For drawing some extra edges in a grid I used the following code: \begin{tikzpicture} \newcounter{xp} \newcounter{yp} \grGrid[prefix=a,RA=2,RB=2]{6}{6} \foreach \x in {0,2,4}{% \foreach \y in {1,3}{% \setcounter{xp}{\x} \setcounter{yp}{\y} \stepcounter{xp} \stepcounter{yp} \Edge(a\x;\y)(a\thexp;\theyp) } } \end{tikzpicture} For some reason the following code does… Continue Reading →
This is silly. There are better ways to do it. Still, it was sort of fun to write. \endlinechar=-1 \newread\in \newwrite\out \message{Please enter input file name: } \read16to\inname \openin\in=\inname \relax \ifeof\in \immediate\write16{Failed to open \inname.} \expandafter\end \fi \message{Please enter output… Continue Reading →
University thesis committees are fairly well-known in the typesetting world for having the most absurd requirements. One example requires heading text to be typeset centered and no more than 4.5 in wide in which the lines become progressively shorter. This… Continue Reading →
One thing that I dislike about LaTeX’s output—especially in two columns—is that lines of prose are not typeset on a grid. I’m hoping to do a series of posts on little things that can be done to improve the situation…. Continue Reading →
Ahhh PDFs…., or more formally, Portable Document Format files. I remember the days when I thought that PDFs were only for instruction manuals downloaded from the internet, or electronic copies of things that you don’t want people to be able… Continue Reading →