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Vielen Dank an das Redaktionsteam der #DieTeXnischeKomödie vom #DANTEeV für die neueste Ausgabe 3/2026 u.a. mit interessanten Buchvorstellungen von "Drucksachen gestalten mit #ConTeXt und #LuaMETATeX" von @fiee sowie dem #TeXLaTeX Beginner's Guide von Stefan Kottwitz.

How do Computational Literary Studies (CLS) have a "disciplineness" that other subfields of DH do not?
And what are us others missing out on because we don't?

Welcome back to hot take hour at the #TeXLaTeX Ninja blog!

Would love to hear your thoughts about processes of (sub-)discipline formation within the #DH or #ComputationalHumanities!

http://latex-ninja.com/2026/09/13/dh-as-a-discipline-and-the-sub-disciplines-of-dh/

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

#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

Bonjour à toutes et à tous ! 👋

Poussé par un collègue qui avait cette idée depuis un moment mais n'avait pas les compétences pour coder ça en #LaTeX...

On commence un nouveau projet : GéomaTeX → https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/geomatex/

Il redige le texte, je m'occupe des figures. 👌

L'idée : une bibliothèque de méthode pour tracer des figures rédigé en LaTeX.

Merci encore à @cpierquet dont le paquet OutilsGeomTikZ facilite grandement le travail ! 🙏

EDIT : lien CTAN vers OutilsGeomTikZ → https://ctan.org/pkg/outilsgeomtikz

#TeXLaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle3 #TeamMaths #REL #LaForge

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

Heute gabs beim #TexLateXMeetupDresden was auf die Zahlen.

Wer in einem Dokument mit Zahlen (mit und ohne Einheiten) hantieren muss, der sei das Paket `siunitx` wärmstens empfohlen.

Damit können Zahlen konsistent dargestellt werden – mit oder ohne Tausendertrennung–, einheitliche Kommatas gesetzt werden; und die Einheiten sind nach SI-Spezifikationen ordentlich formatiert.

Besonders auch geeignet wenn vielerlei Zahlen aus unterschiedlichen Quellen importiert werden (die evtl auch unterschiedliche sprachspezifische Trennzeichen aufweisen), oder wenn das Dokument für einen anderen Sprachraum veröffentlicht werden soll.

Mal eben alle Tausendertrennzeichen (.) durch einen kleinen Abstand ersetzen? Mit siunitx ganz einfach.

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/siunitx

Der Nächste Termin ist der 27.8. um 18 Uhr in der SLUB, Zentralbibliothek, Raum 0.46.
Komm vorbei, wenn du irgendwas mit Dokumenten machst.

#TexLaTeX #mathematischerFormelsatz
#wissenschaftlichesSchreiben

TeX-Veranstaltungen findet ihr ab sofort (auch) unter
https://treff.tech/@tex_de

ConTeXt-Veranstaltungen unter
https://treff.tech/@contextgroup

… beides nach wie vor auch unter
https://foss.events

#TeXConTeXt #TeXLaTeX #Einladung #Events #Veranstaltungen #Stammtisch #Mobilizon

@dewomser @FrOSCon
Wir werden beide Tage da sein. #DanteeV #TeXLaTeX #Context

Vielen Dank an die Redaktion von #DieTeXnischeKomödie vom #DANTEeV für das Heft 2/2026 vom Mai u.a. mit einem interessanten Artikel von Henning Hraban Ramm zur Schnittgestaltung bei Büchern, die zumindest bei meinem Druckexemplar nicht so gut gelungen ist.
Trotzdem sehr spannend, dass man so etwas mit #TeXLaTeX umsetzen kann (aber das war ja irgendwie auch schon klar 😉).

Der Löwe und ich machen uns startklar für die #CLT2026 (@clt_news)

Mal sehen was dieses Jahr so für Fragen am #DanteEV Stand vorbeikommen und was wir so dazu lernen. Also falls ihr zufällig gerade die eine oder andere Frage dabei habt... Wir werden versuchen zu helfen. Bei den Themen wie #TeX & Friends, insbesondere #TeXLaTeX, #eRechnung, #ZUGFeRD , #TaggedPdf ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, relativ hoch, dass das klappt.

I was already having misgivings about #CPython when I saw a required #Rust dependency coming up (although I know many here have no issues with this), but now that there have been #LLM commits to the project, I'd like to look at alternatives. It seems great that #Pypy exists, although I worry that it will end up replicating undesirable behavior from CPython in the future.

I had been learning C++ with the goal of writing extensions using CPython. As it happens, I already have a physical copy of a book on #Lua and many applications are written in C++ with Lua scripting on top, so I'm going to swap out Python for Lua in an upcoming project. I'm excited to be able to experiment with #LuaLaTeX or writing scripts for #GeanyIDE. The language shows up in way more places than I realized.

#Python #cpp #CPlusPlus #programming #Scripting #ScriptingLanguage #TexLatex

I was already having misgivings about #CPython when I saw a required #Rust dependency coming up (although I know many here have no issues with this), but now that there have been #LLM commits to the project, I'd like to look at alternatives. It seems great that #Pypy exists, although I worry that it will end up replicating undesirable behavior from CPython in the future.

I had been learning C++ with the goal of writing extensions using CPython. As it happens, I already have a physical copy of a book on #Lua and many applications are written in C++ with Lua scripting on top, so I'm going to swap out Python for Lua in an upcoming project. I'm excited to be able to experiment with #LuaLaTeX or writing scripts for #GeanyIDE. The language shows up in way more places than I realized.

#Python #cpp #CPlusPlus #programming #Scripting #ScriptingLanguage #TexLatex

I was already having misgivings about #CPython when I saw a required #Rust dependency coming up (although I know many here have no issues with this), but now that there have been #LLM commits to the project, I'd like to look at alternatives. It seems great that #Pypy exists, although I worry that it will end up replicating undesirable behavior from CPython in the future.

I had been learning C++ with the goal of writing extensions using CPython. As it happens, I already have a physical copy of a book on #Lua and many applications are written in C++ with Lua scripting on top, so I'm going to swap out Python for Lua in an upcoming project. I'm excited to be able to experiment with #LuaLaTeX or writing scripts for #GeanyIDE. The language shows up in way more places than I realized.

#Python #cpp #CPlusPlus #programming #Scripting #ScriptingLanguage #TexLatex

I was already having misgivings about #CPython when I saw a required #Rust dependency coming up (although I know many here have no issues with this), but now that there have been #LLM commits to the project, I'd like to look at alternatives. It seems great that #Pypy exists, although I worry that it will end up replicating undesirable behavior from CPython in the future.

I had been learning C++ with the goal of writing extensions using CPython. As it happens, I already have a physical copy of a book on #Lua and many applications are written in C++ with Lua scripting on top, so I'm going to swap out Python for Lua in an upcoming project. I'm excited to be able to experiment with #LuaLaTeX or writing scripts for #GeanyIDE. The language shows up in way more places than I realized.

#Python #cpp #CPlusPlus #programming #Scripting #ScriptingLanguage #TexLatex

I was already having misgivings about #CPython when I saw a required #Rust dependency coming up (although I know many here have no issues with this), but now that there have been #LLM commits to the project, I'd like to look at alternatives. It seems great that #Pypy exists, although I worry that it will end up replicating undesirable behavior from CPython in the future.

I had been learning C++ with the goal of writing extensions using CPython. As it happens, I already have a physical copy of a book on #Lua and many applications are written in C++ with Lua scripting on top, so I'm going to swap out Python for Lua in an upcoming project. I'm excited to be able to experiment with #LuaLaTeX or writing scripts for #GeanyIDE. The language shows up in way more places than I realized.

#Python #cpp #CPlusPlus #programming #Scripting #ScriptingLanguage #TexLatex

Vielen Dank noch an das Redaktionsteam der #DieTeXnischeKomödie des #DANTEeV für die neue Ausgabe mit interessanten Artikel u.a. zu #oPlotSymbl für die einfache Nutzung von Plot-Symbolen in #TeXLaTeX oder bunten Klammern mit dem Paket #rainbowbrackets.

👻 🎃 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

@stdevel
Ach. Interessant!
Hätte ich als #TeXLaTeX-Evangelist am #DanteeV-Stand aber vermutlich eh nicht besuchen können, auch wenn mir der Husten keinen Strich durch die Rechnung gemacht hätte. Gibts ne Aufzeichnung?

Working on a scientific paper and need to quickly insert a citation?

If you’ve used #JabRef before, you might know the “push to application” feature. Now, JabRef supports cite-as-you-write (CAYW)! (Also known as “cite while you write”)

In #TeXstudio, press c three times to open the citation dialog—no plugin needed.

🛠 Setup guide:
👉 https://blog.jabref.org/2025/07/25/cayw-endpoint/

Big thanks to @phlp for implementing this!

#AcademicWriting #BibTeX #TexLaTeX #CitationTools #GSoC2025 #OpenScience #ResearchSoftware

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

Ich wollte vorhin gerade tooten, und schon kamen Menschen mit Fragen vorbei … ;-)

Aber jetzt euch für euch: Der Löwe, ein paar andere und ich sind heute auf den #CLT2025 am #DANTEeV Stand und beantworten wieder Fragen rund um #TeX & Friends. Also falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere #TeXLaTeX Problemchen habt, oder Anregungen oder einfach nur den Löwen besuchen wollt …

Er verteilt heute auch wieder kleine Löwen Ansteck-Pins. @clt_news

Turning 80-ish (usa letter-sized) pages of reading into Google Slides so students can read more comfortably on their Chromebooks.

I really wish I could just use an HTML page, but last I looked Google Drive won't display HTML files as web pages.

I suppose I could make it 8.5x5.5 landscape PDF, but not sure how well that would work on their screens.

Any thoughts?

(Reading started in #TexLatex, so I can #pandoc it into just about anything.)

#K12 #K12Education #EdTech #GoogleDrive

@FrOSCon Erstmal Frühstück … aber dann!
#DanteeV #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

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

En ce moment, je m'amuse à reprendre toutes les illustrations de mes cours avec OutilsGeomTikz 📏 📐 de @cpierquet https://ctan.org/pkg/outilsgeomtikz

Ici, pour la #symétrie #centrale (#5e).

La fiche leçon #pdf et son code .tex est disponible sur #LaForgeEdu d' @apps ⤵️

🔗https://forge.apps.education.fr/lmdbt/latexiotheque/-/tree/main/5e/Sym%C3%A9trie%20Centrale/Lecon

Les fiches d'activités et d'exercices devraient suivre... ⏳😉

Bonne journée ! 🌅

#Cycle4 #TeamMaths #TexLaTeX #LaTeX

Im letzten Vortrag des Tages beschäftigt sich Hans Hagen mit „The Performance Narrative“ und gibt einen Überblick über die unterschiedlichen #TeX Compiler, deren Resourcennutzung, ein Paar Einblicke in Unterschiede zwischen #LuaMetaTeX und #LuaTeX sowie Faktoren, die Kompilierungszeiten beeinflussen.

#TeXLaTeX #TeXConTeXt @context

labeleR: a new #Rstats package to automate the production of conference badges, certificates, labels for laboratory samples, #herbaria, #insect #collections, etc.

Easily turn a data frame with info (e.g. names, affiliations, etc) into PDF docs with optional logos, signatures, QR codes...

The #Rmarkdown and #TeXLaTeX templates can be customised easily, or alternative templates used.

With I. Ramos-Gutierrez & @juliagdealedo

https://ecologyr.github.io/labeleR/