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.
Category: other stuff
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 …
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 …
LaTeX and Friends
Marc von Dongen about his book LaTeX and Friends but also about LaTeX in general and what some of its big advantages are:
Is this going …
… to be my next package? \documentclass{article} \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage{libertine} \usepackage{elektrochemie} \begin{document} \setechemie{ membrane , electrodes = {Cu}{Zn} , anode-color = {red!20} , electrolyte-color = {blue!5} } \begin{tikzpicture} \drawcell \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
arara v3 — music on CTAN and in TeX Live 2012
I have told you about arara (the cool TeX automation tool) already. But it is time to write more as there are great news: Paulo recently published v3 of arara. He uploaded this version to CTAN which means arara also made it into TeX Live 2012: So, what’s new in …
LaTeX Templates
Many of you might have wished to have proper templates for different types of documents. Indeed there is a website that offers a bunch of these, www.latextemplates.com.
The new »acro«
My »acro« package (which I have described earlier already) has – to a certain degree – grown up and reached version 1.0. Why is that and what is new?