#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

#JabRef team is on fire, with only 4 issues letf to fix for the beta release!

#javafx #opensource #javafx
#teXLaTeX #bibtex #bibliography #freesoftware #freesoftware

It's this time of the year for JabRef maintainers, users, and students who participated during #GSOC.

@InAnYan and @Hancong for coming all the way from #Switzerland and the #Netherlands by train (thanks #DB) and having quite an odyssey!

If you have an important issue we need to address, now is the chance to get it fixed in the next hours or days!

#jabref #java #javafx #opensource #bibtex #texlatex #bibliography #library #opensource #freesoftware

#GSOC2026 is nearly over, and thanks to Hancong, you can now collbaborate with #Zotero users on the same #LIbreOffice document.
He also worked on various other improvements, like support for footnote citations for #CSL styles and support for tracking changes mode.
You can already try it in the latest dev version and soon in the new beta!

Read more in the blog post:

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/15/Improved-LibreOffice-Intergration/

#opensource #java #javafx #citations #bibliography #bst #texlaTeX

You have PDFs that are just scans and want to search in them?
Thanks to Zeyad who worked on this during #GSOC2026, JabRef now has an #OCR feature. The OCR is done by an external tool, but the results are ingested back in JabRef and are available through the full-text search.
You can try this out in the latest dev version and hopefully soon in the beta.

For more info on the new feature, read the blog post:
https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/09/OCR-integration-in-JabRef/

#bibtex #teXLaTeX #java #academia #opensource #javafx

#biber v2.22 ist about to be released. Spent an unexpected amount of time on building the versions for Linux-musl_x86_64 and Linux_aarch64. The build system was very much out of shape after not being used for over a year. Expect the builds on CTAN shortly. #TeX #LaTeX #TeXLaTeX

Are you doing #SLR aka Systematic Literature Reviews?

Two contributors, Faneesh and Loay, worked this summer on improving JabRef's SLR feature.

The key change is the addition of a new native query mode; e.g., you can now formulate such queries for each catalog, and JabRef will send them directly to the website. And for reproducibility, JabRef will store all sent queries.

https://blog.jabref.org/2026/08/01/systematic-literature-reviews-in-jabref/

#research #academia #bibtex #pubmed
#opensource #teXLaTeX #java #javafx

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

For newbies feeling hesitant or frustrated about #Emacs and its Lisp flavor. tl;dr #Foss #lifelonglearning victories!

In 2010 or so I watched an interview with the immortal Carsten Dominik, creator of Org mode. He made an offhand remark to the effect of "I just love coding in Emacs Lisp, it's just how I think, it's just so natural, don't you agree?" And I was very unhappy. Because I could not agree. That discouragement stuck with me.

My wife always says "the time is going to go by anyway," and this is wisdom. By 2023 I had written "org-teach" for producing classroom materials, shared it at EmacsConf, actually used it in the wild. Others around here have done similar, @randyridenour @ericsfraga @asilata sorry if I'm forgetting you.

Long story short, the underlying #TeXLaTeX core couldn't do #taggedpdf until 2025. I asked on here for help and @yantar92 went to the mailing list and before I could say meta x @paaguti and @schuemaa had us all sorted out. So grateful!

https://codeberg.org/paaguti/pdf-ua2-tests/src/branch/main/ltx-talk-test

With these significantly changed dependencies I decided to rewrite the jank that was org-teach from scratch. And it feels like lightning shoots from my fingertips now. I can implement functionality almost as fast as I can think of it. Too messy to share quite yet. But this kind of workflow and software self sufficiency feels like a superpower. Emacs Lisp just feels natural now. After only a decade and a half!

But seriously, all my progress is thanks to this community.

#emacslisp

Since Detexify is now #AI slop, I have updated my one-pager of advice for learning mathematics to recommend The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List (https://tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comprehensive/symbols-a4.pdf) for finding symbols. This is kind of a bad solution, since Detexify solved the problem of knowing how to draw the symbol without knowing its name with a very appropriate use of traditional image recognition. It is absurd that there is no #FLOSS tool I can recommend instead. If no one builds it first, it'll go on my list of things to do.

My one-pager: https://aten.cool/one_pager.html
Sloppified Detexify: https://detexify.kirelabs.org/#/about

#NoAI #LLM #math #mathematics #Tex #LaTeX #TeXLaTeX #MachineLearning #ImageRecognition #NeuralNetworks

👻 🎃 JabRef 6.0-alpha.3 Release 🎃 👻

Trick or treat! Happy Halloween from the JabRef team! We are happy to announce the release of JabRef 6.0 Alpha 3

Release Highlights:

- Arm64 Linux support,
- Improved UI for Citations
- New Fetchers: #OpenAlex and #EuropePMC
- Initial Cite As You Write endpoint
- First CLI version #JabKit with integrity check
- #CSL style fixes for #LibreOffice
- #JavaFX 25

#java #opensource #linux #arm #bibliography #academia #citations #texlatex #JabRef #GSOC #gsoc2025

A couple of days ago we released the new Alpha 2 of Version 6.0 with many bug fixes and some fancy new things.

We improved the onboarding experience for new users, improved #CSL support in LibreOffice and for the #TexLaTeX users we now have support for analyzing blg files in the integrity check.

More info in our blog post: https://blog.jabref.org/2025/05/06/JabRef6-0-alpha2/

#javafx #academia #opensource #ai #bibtex #bibliography

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

📢 Un petit message pour signaler deux nouveaux sujets d’#AutomaTeX en #6e (génération aléatoire d’exercices d’#automatisme). 🎲

🔗 https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/

📝 Au programme :
- Nombres #décimaux
- #Proportionnalité
- Calcul d’#angles
- #Symétrie axiale (avec des #panneaux #routiers 🚧 – merci @pierquetcedric pour son package LaTeX)

🔖 AutomaTeX 22 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(22)/automatex(22).html
🔖 AutomaTeX 23 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(23)/automatex(23).html

Disponible sur La Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs #LaForgeEdu en :cc: :ccby: avec la participation de @maudinou2002 😉👍

Bonne journée à tous ! 😊

#TeamMaths #TeamPE #Cycle3 #education #TexLaTeX

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

📢 Un petit message pour signaler deux nouveaux sujets d’#AutomaTeX en #6e (génération aléatoire d’exercices d’#automatisme). 🎲

🔗 https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/

📝 Au programme :
- Nombres #décimaux
- #Proportionnalité
- Calcul d’#angles
- #Symétrie axiale (avec des #panneaux #routiers 🚧 – merci @pierquetcedric pour son package LaTeX)

🔖 AutomaTeX 22 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(22)/automatex(22).html
🔖 AutomaTeX 23 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(23)/automatex(23).html

Disponible sur La Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs #LaForgeEdu en :cc: :ccby: avec la participation de @maudinou2002 😉👍

Bonne journée à tous ! 😊

#TeamMaths #TeamPE #Cycle3 #education #TexLaTeX

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

📢 Un petit message pour signaler deux nouveaux sujets d’#AutomaTeX en #6e (génération aléatoire d’exercices d’#automatisme). 🎲

🔗 https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/

📝 Au programme :
- Nombres #décimaux
- #Proportionnalité
- Calcul d’#angles
- #Symétrie axiale (avec des #panneaux #routiers 🚧 – merci @pierquetcedric pour son package LaTeX)

🔖 AutomaTeX 22 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(22)/automatex(22).html
🔖 AutomaTeX 23 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(23)/automatex(23).html

Disponible sur La Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs #LaForgeEdu en :cc: :ccby: avec la participation de @maudinou2002 😉👍

Bonne journée à tous ! 😊

#TeamMaths #TeamPE #Cycle3 #education #TexLaTeX

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

📢 Un petit message pour signaler deux nouveaux sujets d’#AutomaTeX en #6e (génération aléatoire d’exercices d’#automatisme). 🎲

🔗 https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/

📝 Au programme :
- Nombres #décimaux
- #Proportionnalité
- Calcul d’#angles
- #Symétrie axiale (avec des #panneaux #routiers 🚧 – merci @pierquetcedric pour son package LaTeX)

🔖 AutomaTeX 22 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(22)/automatex(22).html
🔖 AutomaTeX 23 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(23)/automatex(23).html

Disponible sur La Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs #LaForgeEdu en :cc: :ccby: avec la participation de @maudinou2002 😉👍

Bonne journée à tous ! 😊

#TeamMaths #TeamPE #Cycle3 #education #TexLaTeX

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

📢 Un petit message pour signaler deux nouveaux sujets d’#AutomaTeX en #6e (génération aléatoire d’exercices d’#automatisme). 🎲

🔗 https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/

📝 Au programme :
- Nombres #décimaux
- #Proportionnalité
- Calcul d’#angles
- #Symétrie axiale (avec des #panneaux #routiers 🚧 – merci @pierquetcedric pour son package LaTeX)

🔖 AutomaTeX 22 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(22)/automatex(22).html
🔖 AutomaTeX 23 : https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(23)/automatex(23).html

Disponible sur La Forge des Communs Numériques Éducatifs #LaForgeEdu en :cc: :ccby: avec la participation de @maudinou2002 😉👍

Bonne journée à tous ! 😊

#TeamMaths #TeamPE #Cycle3 #education #TexLaTeX

Un petit billet 📝 en plus ⤵️

🔗https://lmdbt.fr/blog/OutilsGeomTikz-exemple.html

Dans ce billet, nous allons explorer comment utiliser #TikZ et le paquet #OutilsGeomTikz pour créer des constructions géométriques en y intégrant des outils de géométrie 📏 📐.

cc : @sgtpepere 😉

#TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle4 #5e #Symétrie #Figure

Un petit billet 📝 en plus ⤵️

🔗https://lmdbt.fr/blog/OutilsGeomTikz-exemple.html

Dans ce billet, nous allons explorer comment utiliser #TikZ et le paquet #OutilsGeomTikz pour créer des constructions géométriques en y intégrant des outils de géométrie 📏 📐.

cc : @sgtpepere 😉

#TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle4 #5e #Symétrie #Figure

Un petit billet 📝 en plus ⤵️

🔗https://lmdbt.fr/blog/OutilsGeomTikz-exemple.html

Dans ce billet, nous allons explorer comment utiliser #TikZ et le paquet #OutilsGeomTikz pour créer des constructions géométriques en y intégrant des outils de géométrie 📏 📐.

cc : @sgtpepere 😉

#TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle4 #5e #Symétrie #Figure

Un petit billet 📝 en plus ⤵️

🔗https://lmdbt.fr/blog/OutilsGeomTikz-exemple.html

Dans ce billet, nous allons explorer comment utiliser #TikZ et le paquet #OutilsGeomTikz pour créer des constructions géométriques en y intégrant des outils de géométrie 📏 📐.

cc : @sgtpepere 😉

#TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle4 #5e #Symétrie #Figure

Un petit billet 📝 en plus ⤵️

🔗https://lmdbt.fr/blog/OutilsGeomTikz-exemple.html

Dans ce billet, nous allons explorer comment utiliser #TikZ et le paquet #OutilsGeomTikz pour créer des constructions géométriques en y intégrant des outils de géométrie 📏 📐.

cc : @sgtpepere 😉

#TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle4 #5e #Symétrie #Figure