#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

Hm cool.
Es gibt für #texlatex ein Braille Paket.

https://ctan.org/pkg/braille

Damit kann ich Texte schreiben und es wird automatisch in Braille übersetzt. 😃

Wenn ich jetzt keinen speziellen Braille Drucker habe, gibt es mit normalen Laserdruckern oder Nadeldruckern ggf. einen Trick, wie ich bspw. so drucken kann, dass sich ein Relief ergibt?
Ich meine manche Druckerzeugnisse aus Laserdruckern hinterlassen ein leichtes Relief.
Kann man das durch Mehrfachdruck an gleicher Stelle verstärken? 🤔

Traditional TeX users’ favourite band is Computer Modern Talking. ☝️🤓

#nonsense #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

Nach zwei Tagen mit Overleaf als blutige Anfängerin in TexLatex sieht so eine erste Beispielseite aus.
Ich find's gut. Noch könnte mir schon vorstellen, den gesamten Buchsatz so zu machen. 😊

#texlatex #buch #schreiben #autorinnen_leben #buchsatz

Wen es interessiert, hier die Screenshots wie es vorher war und was Overleaf daraus gemacht hat und wie ich halt jetzt mit richtigen Absätzen das Ergebnis erziele, das ich eigentlich haben wollte. Also die richtige Formatierung für Dialoge.

Das schien mir nicht zu gehen, ohne, dass ich den Quelltext anpasse.

@fluggs
@TeXhackse

#texlatex #buchsatz #overleaf

Ich übe zur Zeit Buchsatz in #TexLatex mit Overleaf. Macht schon Spaß. Nachteil ist nur, dass es aus dem Quelltext (mein Manuskript) die Einzüge bei Dialogen nicht übernehmen kann, das wird viel Arbeit, falls ich doch ins SP gehe.
Das ist dann wohl der Vorteil von Programmen wie Scribus, aber bei denen brauch ich so lange bis ich da durchsteige. 😬

EDIT: Habe vielleicht schon ein Workaround! Aber danke für die Hilfeangebote! 😊

#schreiben #autorinnen_leben #Buch #Buchsatz #latex

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

Jemand eine Idee, was da beim kompilieren mit #latexmk schief läuft? Ich bekomme immer die Fehlermeldung:
"C:\texlive\2025\bin\windows\runscript.tlu:933: command failed with exit code 12:
perl.exe c:\texlive\2025\texmf-dist\scripts\latexmk\latexmk.pl -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -pdf -outdir=u:/Schule/EFG2 u:/Schule/EFG2/Test_GSM_251009"

Wenn ich das von der Kommandozeile mache geht es

#texlatex

Jemand eine Idee, was da beim kompilieren mit #latexmk schief läuft? Ich bekomme immer die Fehlermeldung:
"C:\texlive\2025\bin\windows\runscript.tlu:933: command failed with exit code 12:
perl.exe c:\texlive\2025\texmf-dist\scripts\latexmk\latexmk.pl -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -pdf -outdir=u:/Schule/EFG2 u:/Schule/EFG2/Test_GSM_251009"

Wenn ich das von der Kommandozeile mache geht es

#texlatex

Jemand eine Idee, was da beim kompilieren mit #latexmk schief läuft? Ich bekomme immer die Fehlermeldung:
"C:\texlive\2025\bin\windows\runscript.tlu:933: command failed with exit code 12:
perl.exe c:\texlive\2025\texmf-dist\scripts\latexmk\latexmk.pl -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode -file-line-error -pdf -outdir=u:/Schule/EFG2 u:/Schule/EFG2/Test_GSM_251009"

Wenn ich das von der Kommandozeile mache geht es

#texlatex

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dreaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

#TeXLaTeX #PhDLife

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dreaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

#TeXLaTeX #PhDLife

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dreaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

#TeXLaTeX #PhDLife

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dreaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

#TeXLaTeX #PhDLife

I just discovered #sioyek, a very fast and simple cross-platform PDF viewer that is designed around reading books or scientific papers. I auto-reloads when the file changes, so is well-suited for a #latexmk workflow. Reloading is quasi-instant and also doesn't redraw everything with this dreaded flicker like many other viewers do (looking at you #evince 😑). Right-clicking on an internal link a opens a real, scrollable subwindow preview, nice! 👍

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

#TeXLaTeX #PhDLife

@arendjr
I wrote everything with #TeXLaTeX. Nothing else for serious stuff.🤭
#esit: #LaTeX -> #TeXLaTeΧ (In order to avoid #BDSM confusion🤭)

Bonjour à tous ! 👋

Je vous partage des supports concernant les #angles en #6e. 📐📏
En .tex et en pdf. 📄
Beaucoup d'exercices sont des transcriptions en #LaTeX de ce qu'on trouve dans les manuels #Sesamath. 😉
La fiche d'exercices comprend un #PixelArt en dernière page. 👾🎨

📚 #Leçon : https://forge.apps.education.fr/lmdbt/latexiotheque/-/blob/main/6e/Les%20angles/Le%C3%A7on/
🎓 #Activités : https://forge.apps.education.fr/lmdbt/latexiotheque/-/tree/main/6e/Les%20angles/Activit%C3%A9s
✏️ #Exercices : https://forge.apps.education.fr/lmdbt/latexiotheque/-/tree/main/6e/Les%20angles/Exercices

N'hésitez pas à signaler les éventuelles coquilles. 📝

Merci une nouvelle fois à Cédric Pierquet pour son paquet d'outils géométriques : OutilsGeomTikz. 🙏
https://forge.apps.education.fr/pierquetcedric/package-latex-outilsgeomtikz

Bonne semaine à tous ! 🌟

#TexLaTeX #TeamMaths #Education #Cycle3 #Mathématiques

OH: “#PDF is a very complicated format, but you can work with it when you just learn to ignore everything you don''t understand.”

Just discovered that while sorting my notes from the pdf #tagging workshop by the #TeXLaTeX Project Team last week.

That day just was too full with other stuff I didn't manage to directly toot it :D But I still find it worth, as it describes actually a nice way to get stared debugging the tagging.

#TUG2024

Last session starts with Didier Verna's extensions to the Knuth-Plass algortihm. He developed them using his ETAP presented last year.

He is introducing an extra variant of contextual demerits to avoid the same word to be placed the same word at the beginning or end of successive lines also questioning if is worth or not depending on a lot of facts.

Link to the ETAP repo: https://github.com/didierverna/etap
Slides containing the data: https://tug.org/tug2024/slides/verna-knuth-plass.pdf

#typesetting #TeX #TeXLaTeX #TUG2024

[1/2] Just in case you use the units #TeXLaTeX package still somewhere within your documents (which always confuses me) you probably want to remove and replace it by #siunitx simple because that's the actively maintained one.

Joseph Wright is now talking about the last updates and plans for the package. The changes are much smaller than the complete reimplementation for v3.0.0 but he still is making the typesetting of numbers and units much easier.

#TUG2024

Antoine Bossard continues with language specific #typesetting:
Specifically Latin verse scansion.

Link to the preprint: https://tug.org/tug2024/preprints/bossard-verse.pdf

Showing how #unicode / #utf8 is improving also old languages, which I will use as a nice argument to get people to use unicode as some still are using #TeXLaTeX macros to insert accents or umlauts, which I just can't understand.

#TUG2024

#TUG2024 day 3 starts with the status update by Ondřej Sojka about his work on expanding the #hyphenation patterns across Slavic languages.

They use #MachineLearning to compare existing patterns to find out if they can be used or adapted to other Slavic languages.This work is not only to be used within #TeX / #TeXLaTeX of course and is (or will be) implemented e.g. in browsers or smartphone operating systems.

Preprint: https://tug.org/tug2024/preprints/sojka-slavic.pdf

#Typesetting

Last talk before the workshop of today @samcarter is once again advertising the moloch #beamer theme. As it's the maintained fork of the metropolis theme I totally agree with her to tell people they should use that one instead.

But there are still discussions to replace metropolis or to just have metropolis load moloch.
#TUG2024 #TeXLaTeX

https://ctan.org/pkg/moloch

Another but kind of different project was presented by Andrew Watters in a prerecorded talk.

He showed his “full spectrum litigator” which I'd describe as an #OpenSource toolchain for the nerdy #lawyer. ;-)

Setup looked similar to what I know from the ERP systems I work with using php to fill in variables into Templates, creating #TeXLaTeX code creating PDFs but also having Email handling and some more specific features.#TUG2024

[1/2] Jeffrey Kuan as a math professor who is passionate about #a11y is confronted with the claim that a #PDF created via #TeXLaTeX can not be accessible at all. Which is not true but applies to most of the created documents so far.

In his talk he is describing issues he is facing trying to fulfill the law requirements and as someone who actually wants to provide accessible material. Sadly both don't match in a lot of cases.
#TUG2024

[2/2] Same with the tagging sockets.

So just in case you are or plan to develop a package have a look at the publications of the #TeXLaTeX Project to keep yourself up to date with the common interfaces. It's much more helpful if people actually use those instead of having a huge bunch of packages implementing their own auxiliary macros as it was necessary back in the 90s.

You find them via https://www.latex-project.org/ or locally running `texdoc ltnews`

#TeX #TUG2024

[1/2] Spreading new concepts or improvements within the #TeX world is always a bit hard. Sadly there's a lot of users (or publishers) who sadly prefer to keep everything the way it was before. The more important it is that active developers use those interfaces instead of creating their own, as we now know, it's hard to clean that up in case there are incompatible changes.

Frank Mittelbach from the #TeXLaTeX project is once again talking about hooks to make developers using them. #TUG2024

[1/3] Continuing the #a11y topic Ulrike Fischer is giving an update on the status of the #TeXLaTeX tagging-project.
https://github.com/latex3/tagging-project

Also explaining that the LaTeX team is currently pushing the development of #PDF as well as validators and viewers towards PDF 2.0 and Well-tagged-pdf (https://pdfa.org/wtpdf/)

The current tagging structure in some cases is too simple to match the actually complexity of documents but this needs examples to illustrate.
#TUG2024

@norbu presenting #OpenAccess trying to include that aspect at #arxiv.

I've been following the amazing work by @dginev towards #ar5iv for quite a while and in case you might have missed that:
https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/

There's still a lot of work left, but I really love to see progress towards accessibility within the #TeX / #TeXLaTeX and generally #ScientificPublishing community. Especially showing arXiv it's possible to improve on a huge scale.

#TUG2024

Last talk of the session is Joseph Wright speaking about the concept of templates in the #TeXLaTeX kernel.

The concept of providing common interfaces for Layout adjustments exists for a long time within the #TeX world but is now a thing which is pushed by the current development status, as it simplifies preserving the tagging while allowing more flexibility for the layout.

This is using the joy of #expl3 to some higher level commands towards the users.

https://ctan.org/pkg/xtemplate

#TUG2024

Changxu Duan follows up presenting his work. Starting showing that LLMs are better with PDFs where they know the #TeXLaTeX source. Which is not surprising.

His Idea is to add the source as annotation or add it as simplified markdown or XML markup to the PDF document. In contrast to providing the full source attached this is preserving the connection to the object's position.
#TUG2024

Within tagging of typesetted math this is already quite common using the LaTeX code.

As there is a lot of #a11y in #TeXLaTeX for today Simon Pfahler is talking about color schemes for #colorblind people trying to increase awareness for these issues.

Generally the most important point probably is, that you should not encode a single value only in color.

https://ctan.org/pkg/colorblind

It's still in an early state of development but he requested suggestions and feedback to create it as useful as possible.
#TUG2024

Handout for my talk at #tug2024 conference is here: https://www.kodymirus.cz/presentations/responsive_handout.html #TexLatex

The first talk of day 2 #TUG2024 is given by @michal_h21 (#tex4ebook / #tex4ht) who is presenting on rmodepdf which is a tool to convert websites to ebook reader friendly pdf documents. I guess then converting to epub is also not a bit issue. It uses the reader mode and is using luaxml to process the html.

It's interesting to see it also the other way round. As he is usually known for #TeXLaTeX to #html facing different issues.

Link to the rmodepdf repo: https://github.com/michal-h21/rmodepdf/

@sarahalang starts her talk about #TeXLaTeX within #digitalHumanities with an explanation of DH, stating that usually she has to explain what LaTeX is. Showing her usecase and giving an insight but also explaining about issues which this might add for people without a technical background.

As usual with different subjects I think we all should do more skill sharing across as we just can't imagine how other's might benefit from this exchange.
#TUG2024

Interesting for people within the educational sector:
Wim Obbels, Bart Snapp and Jim Fowler prepared a presentation on the Ximera project. Some interactive math educational resource project with #TeXLaTeX input covering different outputs.

Was not aware – but seems to earn a view
https://github.com/XimeraProject

Project was in a “only bugfix” maintenance status, but now managed to receive funding and looks like making new progress.
Nice to see how funding is pushing projects back to life!

#TUG2024

Now @witiko is talking about the implementation of the themes for the #TeXLaTeX #Markdown package.

So in case you want a more TeXnical approach, which is more flexible than #pandoc this might be a thing for you. May proudly say I contributed small bits to the package, still much less, that I'd have wanted to, but thats the Issue with #OpenSource especially FOSS

He promised we'd all want a wolf plushie in the end, so I really hope he has one for Mr lion ;)

#TUG2024

#TeX / #TeXLaTeX infrastructure has grown wild in huge parts. Trials to modernize are in progress. One step recently taken is presented by Didier Verna talking about the TFM (TeX Font Metrics) validator.

The daily results for #TeXLive are published via https://texlive.info/tfm-validate/fonts.html

And it's not surprising to see that as soon as there are tests one finds issues in published projects. Totally matches my findings. We need more automated testing!

And I know it's a lot of work…

#TUG2024

After so many people were amazed by #latexmk's capabilities to auto-refresh a LaTeX document preview, check this out:

latex-lsp/texlab: An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab?tab=readme-ov-file

I didn't think there would be a language server for TeX documents but there you go!

In #Emacs/#Eglot, you now get auto-completion of all macros that are loaded by your project, even your own. 🤯

#texlatex #lsp

After so many people were amazed by #latexmk's capabilities to auto-refresh a LaTeX document preview, check this out:

latex-lsp/texlab: An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab?tab=readme-ov-file

I didn't think there would be a language server for TeX documents but there you go!

In #Emacs/#Eglot, you now get auto-completion of all macros that are loaded by your project, even your own. 🤯

#texlatex #lsp

After so many people were amazed by #latexmk's capabilities to auto-refresh a LaTeX document preview, check this out:

latex-lsp/texlab: An implementation of the Language Server Protocol for LaTeX https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab?tab=readme-ov-file

I didn't think there would be a language server for TeX documents but there you go!

In #Emacs/#Eglot, you now get auto-completion of all macros that are loaded by your project, even your own. 🤯

#texlatex #lsp