#texlatex — Public Fediverse posts

Behold an innovation in academic publishing that, astonishingly, is an IMPROVEMENT, not an abomination.

Instead of marking up proofs and sending them back, I am allowed to make direct edits to the publisher's source file in LaTeX.

Is this genuinely new, or have I just been publishing in old fogey journals? I still smart over having been forced to change a beautiful LaTeX document into MICROSOFT WORD DOC, of all things, when the article was accepted back in 2021.

#academicChatter #texLaTeX

Look at these lovely vintage style #TeXLaTeX docs by Foad Farimani! Exactly what I needed! (without knowing it...)

https://github.com/Foadsf

Hey; ich habe mal ne #texlatex Frage:

ich möchte eine Webseite zitieren und nutze dafür #biblatex und den Eintrag
```
@misc{wp,
title = {Wikipedia},
url = {https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo},
urldate = {2025-01-01T13:37:42},
author = {Franz, Ferdinand},
year = {2026},
note = {Notiz}
}
```

Ich habe als urldate auch die Zeit mit angegeben. Es wird mir aber im Literaturverzeichnis nur "Abgerufen am 1.1.2025" ausgegeben.
Wie kann ich die Felder urlhour und urlminute noch mit in die Ausgabe des Verzeichnises aufnehmen?

Muss ich dafür meinen kompletten Stil neu definieren?

Another milestone reached!
We crossed the 4500 stargazers on #github

And we are close to another milestone, the 6.0-beta. We worked hard and worked on improvements and bug fixes across JabRef. For example, we revamped the entry editor to make it easier to add/remove fields.

Curious? Try out the latest dev version and see for yourself!
https://builds.jabref.org/main/

#javafx #opensource #jabref #bibtex #biblatex #texlatex #java #academia #bibliography

Anzeichen, an denen man erkennt, dass eine studentische Arbeit mutmaßlich mit KI-Unterstützung geschrieben wurde oder Medienkompetenz komplett fehlt, Teil 73:

Auf der Titelseite wurde das Fakultätslogo aus der eingescannten Aufgabenstellung als schiefe Rastergrafik genutzt, obwohl man das Logo natürlich auch auf der Webseite (https://www.cd.ovgu.de/Fakult%C3%A4ten/Elektrotechnik+und+Informationstechnik.html) oder sogar ganz einfach in unserer #TeXLaTeX-Vorlage (https://de.overleaf.com/latex/templates/guidance-on-the-preparation-of-degree-theses/zvbvgkspxsvh) findet.

#AcademicWriting #ScientificWriting

🌞 JabRef 6.0 Alpha 6 released! 🌞

We are thrilled to announce a new alpha version! The version is formally an alpha but stable enough for usage.

Highlights:

- Revamped notifications and pop-up
- Improved generation and handling of inserted citations in LibreOffice
- Improved inspections for #biblatex and #bibtex

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/05/14/JabRef6-0-alpha6/

#javafx #bibliography #academia #citations #TexLatex #academic #opensource #research

@foojay @frankdelporte

I made a little extension to my Python-based LaTeX math renderer so it can be used to draw equations and Sympy expressions directly in the terminal as sixel graphics. Install with `pip install sixelmath` and give it a try! (in a sixel-supported terminal, of course).

Source: https://github.com/cdelker/sixelmath

#sixel #python #sympy #TeXLaTeX #terminal #equations #ziamath #konsole

Happy Holidays!

Here is a late present for you: We just released Version 6.0.alpha4.
This release contains a couple of UX improvements, a handful of new features, and the usual bug fixes.
A brand new feature is now the support for date groups based on any date field. Also supports year, timestamp fields, etc.

For more info, check out our blog post and the changelog!

https://blog.jabref.org/2025/12/26/JabRef6-0-alpha4/

#javafx #java #academia #opensource #bibliography #biblatex #bibtex #texlaTeX
@foojay @frankdelporte

Beginning to lose my mind again about #TeXLaTeX #BibLaTeX #BibTeX #Zotero fuckery. 😩

Zotero puts the "Extra" field from the GUI into the `annotation` field. This is happily ignored by biblatex. The quest begins, how to convince biblatex to *please* display my note on this preprint somewhere. All my attempts involving AtEveryBibItem or DeclareSourceMap pretty much in vain. LaTeX is so incredibly brilliant, but simple stuff like this can really kill you. Feels like :nixos: #NixOS 😅

#PhDLife

For some reason it is ridiculously hard to just ignore any first or given names with #BibLaTeX. Like any sane person, I'd like to only see surnames in the citations, authoryear style. BibLaTeX really doesn't want you to.

#TeXLaTeX

The interactive calculation sheet for #engineering, based on #emacs, #orgmode, #texlatex and #sympy is available in English [1], although the blog article is in German [2]. The template is also in English [3].

#Orgmode is so impressive, you could use #maxima, #octave, #gnuplot, #graphviz and almost 40 other languages with all their libraries right out of the box [4].

Have fun!

[1] https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/downloads/eng.pdf
[2] https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/post20250208_pencilandpaper.html
[3] https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/downloads/org_eng.zip
[4] https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/index.html

Interactive calculation sheets with #emacs, #orgmode, #sympy and #texlatex. Blog post: https://vennemann-online.de/flossblog/post20250208_pencilandpaper.html #foss #floss