#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? 🤔

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

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

Die aktuelle „TeXnische Komödie“ (Mitgliederzeitschrift von DANTE) enthält einen langen Artikel über die Verwendung einer OpenType-Schulschrift mit TeX live 2019, XeLaTeX und 7 bit ASCII.

Ich verstehe wirklich nicht, warum der nicht abgelehnt wurde – so etwas war 2019 schon veraltet, ist nur noch peinlich und wirft ein ganz schlechtes Licht auf die TeX-Szene.

#TeXLaTeX #DANTE #OpenType #TeXlive

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

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

We are excited that we are participating in #GSOC2026 with 3 projects:

- "Improved handling of older documents with OCR and AI-powered tools."

- "Improved #LibreOffice -JabRef integration" with one particular aspect of compatibility with other reference managers.

- "Improving startup times for JabKit" by leveraging the power of #GraalVM

#javafx #jabref #academia #bibtex #TexLatex #opensource #bibliography
cc  @frankdelporte @foojay

The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing

A JabRef contributor wrote this nice article for his university course:
https://kai505.medium.com/the-invisible-infrastructure-of-academic-publishing-48772c9606f8

#texlatex #jabref #bibtex #academia #bibliography

Happy Valentine's Day, and more important, today is "I Love Free Software Day! The day to express gratitude to all those #opensource contributors.

And of course we would like to thank all people who contribute to #JabRef in so many ways. This keeps us motivated.

#javafx #java #bibliography #texlaTeX #latex #bibtex #academia #academic
#Freesoftware #FreieSoftware

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

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

Does anyone have a config to share for
- #TeXLaTeX editing,
- that uses #latexmk
- and #Emacs for editing *and* pdf previewing?

`latexmk` is running fine, but the previewing part is not (yet)

#latexmk is great for auto-compiling your documents.

However, it fails in some cases and I'm currently bitten by a nasty one:

- \includgraphics'ed PDF is corrupt (It's a missing, unlocked #gitAnnex / @datalad file)
- that stops biblatex from properly finishing the .bcf XML file
- *before* fetching the missing PDF (with #DataLad), latexmk runs biber on the now corrupt .bcf (fails and deletes the .bbl)
- vicious cycle repeats literally forever - latexmk is in an endless loop 🙄

#TexLaTeX

@isibell Guess you mean #latexmk.

latexmk --lualatex -pretex=’\newcommand\thecolor{white}' -usepretex foo.tex

You can simplify it by using config files as latexmkrc. Having a look at 'texdoc latexmk' helps a lot here.

#TeXLaTeX