Old new friend
A few weeks ago Shinsaku Fujita submitted a new update of XyMTeX to CTAN. Why is this worth mentioning? Because of two (or three) reasons:
Author: Clemens
Documents With Style
Last edited: 2015/07/10 People have asked me how I create the manuals of my packages, one has even asked me if I would write a document class similar to classicthesis. I am not going to do this but can provide my basic preamble settings. It is not very complicated, actually.
chemmacros v4.0
My chemmacros bundle has reached version 4.0. The step to a new major version has been made for two reasons: 1) the bundle has been extended with a new package: chemgreek. 2) every sub package can now be loaded and used independently. In all versions 3.* the ghsystem package, the …
New German Q&A Site
About two weeks ago a new German Q&A (question and answer) site similar to TeX.sx has been started: texwelt.de/wissen. Detailed information in German can be found in the announcement post on the TeXwelt blog.
News in the TeX world: TeXwelt.de
Since a few hours there’s a new German blog about everything in the TeX and LaTeX world. So if you’re German or are able to read and write in German take a minute to read this post.
About footnotes
You all know how easy it is to add footnotes in LaTeX. Most times it is as easy as calling \footnote{This is the footnote.}. Typographically the result often is not very pleasing, though. Let’s look at the following small example:
How I fell in love with emacs
Back in the day when I first started studying I did not know anything about LaTeX or editors, I didn’t know that Linux/Unix existed, and a computer was some tool to play games with and write reports with MS Word. I remember that I once saw a report by a …
About Orbitals
A version 4.0 of my package bundle chemmacros is coming nearer. The most notable difference will be that the chemformula package will be usable as a standalone package. This is not what I am going to ask you about. You may know that chemmacros provides some orbital pictures:
Guitar Tablatures
Some of you already know that I like to play the guitar in my spare time. And there is no such hobby that it cannot be combined with LaTeX. This is why there is my rather badly maintained musixguit package. But this isn’t what this post is about. I don’t …
The inputenc package
Have you ever wondered how the inputenc package works? In this case you should read JLDiaz’ wonderful answer on TeX.sx: