#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

#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

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

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

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

If anyone from the University of Hull follows me, did you know I maintain a set of latex templates that support the Hull Harvard referencing system? I don't remember who I inherited it from, but it's pretty cool and I've taken up the torch of maintaining it myself.

Yesterday, I updated it to the new Hull Harvard style (which required manually editing the hull.bst file, which was an adventure in and of itself if anyone would be interested in reading a blog post about it?). Please see recent commit message for further information if you're migrating:

https://git.starbeamrainbowlabs.com/Demos/latex-templates

Disclaimer: This may contain bugs, so please check referencing etc yourself just in case!

#Referencing #TeXLaTeX #BibTeX #OpenSource #Academia #AcademicWriting

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