StackExchange has been sold
The StackExchange network by Stack Overflow Inc., has been sold to Prosus for 1.8 billion dollars. That includes the TeX Stack Exchange Q&A site aka TeX.SE. Prosus is a technology investor and...
View ArticleScientific WorkPlace/Word/Notebook discontinued
MacKichan Software, Inc. stopped it’s business on June 30, 2021. Their products Scientific WorkPlace (SWP), Scientific Word, and Scientific Notebook, that are based on LaTeX, will not be sold or...
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The Island of TeX in 2020 and 2021
In 2020, the Island of TeX introduced Docker images for easily reproducible builds as well as a semi-official response to the need for continuous integration. These images were among the first using...
View ArticleDANTE Herbsttagung 2021
The following text is in German because it’s about the German language user group meeting 2021. Im vergangenen Jahr sind leider beide DANTE-Tagungen wegen der Pandemie ausgefallen. Die Frühjahrstagung...
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An Overleaf extension for recognizing symbols
Antioch Sanders told us on LaTeX.org about his new project that he called extexify. That’s a browser extension for finding LaTeX symbols by drawing them with mouse or finger on the display. It is...
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Book Review “LaTeX Beginners Guide”, 2nd edition
In the TeX world, the name Stefan Kottwitz is best known for the websites and forums he runs, but Stefan is not just a server admin but also a book author. The first edition of his LaTeX beginners book...
View ArticleBerliner LaTeX-Stammtisch
Heute, am Donnerstag, 13. Januar 2022, gibt es den ersten Berliner LaTeX-Stammtisch des Jahres 2022, um 19 Uhr. Nur für Berliner? Weiß nicht, hab ich gerade auf Twitter gefragt. Weil es ist ja online...
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Aktion: LaTeX-Bücher als Geschenk für DANTE Neumitglieder
An English translation of this post is here: LaTeX.net/members. Da ich mir mehr LaTeX-Freunde für unseren Verein DANTE e.V. wünsche, möchte ich die Werbung von Neumitgliedern mit einem LaTeX-Buch...
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LaTeX books for new DANTE members
That’s an English translation a German blog post that you can find here: LaTeX.net/verein. I’d like to support promoting becoming a new member of DANTE e.V. because I wish to see more LaTeX friends...
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Twitter durchgespielt
Dienstag abend hat die LaTeX Community Twitter erfolgreich durchgespielt: es wurde das Level erreicht, dass LaTeX in Deutschland auf Twitter trendet, den Abend lang. Und zwar in der korrekten...
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LaTeX Cookbook second edition published
The second, improved, and extended edition of the LaTeX Cookbook was published this month, March 2024. The first edition, published in 2015, has been revised, and the code examples have been updated to...
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