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We wish all participants an interesting & inspiring #EuroBachoTeX conference (starting tomorrow)!

https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/index_en.html

#BachoTeX #BachoTeX2026 #TeXConTeXt #TeXLaTeΧ

WYSIWYG LaTeX editor Compositor for Windows & macOS release 0.7 is now available! 🎉
See what’s new in this release: https://compositorapp.com/blog/2026-04-27/Compositor-Windows-07/ #LaTeX #TeXLaTeΧ

@Sascha
Ich könnte davon sprechen (bzw. schreiben), dass ich meine LaTeX-Poster gern auf Latexpapier drucken lasse. Was machte das mit Dir?
#TeXLaTeΧ

@Andrea

RE: https://techhub.social/@TeXUsersGroup/115985112166989604

A LaTeX package of pretty RPG icons for people to use in sheets for their tabletop roleplaying game sessions. I don’t really have a use for this, but by Io, I want to have one! #TeXLaTeΧ

Okay, gang, more vacation-work. Going all-in on #accessibility, and it appears I need #texlive2025 to produce semantically #taggedPDF output from #TeXLaTeΧ. I'm still on #Debian12 so here goes.

# may take several hours to run

LOL

Advice or pointers to resources welcome. Obviously the final goal is #OrgMode export in #Emacs.

https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

#debian #a11y

Well, that's just peachy. I’m currently working on making my #TeXLaTeΧ files accessible. The switch to LuaLaTeX worked like a charm. Now 3 different PDF validators give me 3 different opinions. VeraPDF's online tool says everything is fine. Canvas' Ally tool claims that the PDFs don’t have a title, which is just plain wrong. It also claims my SIunitx quantities are pictures without alt text. And Adobe Acrobat thinks my figure labeling is wrong, which is also incorrect. This will be a fun ride…

@IBI_HU @BerlinUAlliance @dkz2r @thecarpentries Vielen Dank für die Einladung an die HU! Der Workshop hat großen Spaß gemacht und konnte hoffentlich den Teilnehmenden die Tür in die große Welt von #TeXLaTeΧ öffnen. Bis zum nächsten Kurs!

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

Ich kann wirklich nicht verstehen, wie man als Mathematik- oder Physiklehrer, der professionelle Arbeit abliefern möchte, #Word und nicht #TeXLaTeΧ benutzen kann.
Das ist ja so, als würde ein Profi-Koch mit Maggi-Brühwürfeln kochen.
Oh, Moment… 😳

@malter365 Mit #TeXLaTeΧ

BEWARE of any software claiming to “support LaTeX.” It’s almost always MathJax, Markdown, or KaTeX instead, and these are not LaTeX. True LaTeX must be processed with an engine (installed locally or remotely on a server) to be rendered, similar to compiling source code. Merely having commands beginning with a backslash does not qualify as LaTeX. #TeXLaTeΧ #TeXAndLaTeX

@celesteh people use #TeXLaTeΧ

Public service announcement: If you used MacTeX to install #TeXLaTeΧ, tis the season to update it to the 2024 distribution for a wealth of new and updated packages.
https://tug.org/mactex/mactex-download.html

@dmm I would recommend looking at the tkz-euclide package which provides excellent support for doing geometry drawings in #TeXLaTeΧ. It builds on #TikZ and brings in lots of things you want as basic functionality. In pure tikz you would have to put in some work to get such behavior.

@mkreutzfeldt hmmm haben die echt #TeXLaTeΧ benutzt?
Falls ja: Dann ist wenigsten in der Hinsicht nicht Hopfen und Malz verloren.

#edit: #typo, #latex->#TeXLaTeΧ Vielen Dank für den Hinweis @TeXhackse

New blog post! Had these templates for a while but haven't blogged about them until now.

LaTeX templates for writing with the University of Hull's referencing style

https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/blog/article.php?article=posts%2F541-latex-writing-templates.html

#TeXLaTeΧ #writing

@ctietze Looks great. You just need to sub the moonlander for a Keyboardio, emacs for NeoVIM, #TeXLaTeΧ for the #SILE Typesetter, and whatever all that chrome is around the PDF for Zathura and you'd have my setup :)

New blog post: Syntax highlighting and word wrapping code in LaTeX

https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/blog/article.php?article=posts/526-latex-minted-word-wrapping.html

#latex #TeXLaTeΧ #blogpost

I've got a weird #TeXLaTeΧ question and I'm curious if #AskFedi can help: I want to typeset #Persian text, but when I try to load #farsi with #babel, I get an "There is no ini file for the requested language" message. The babel GitHub repo has babel-fa.ini, and it's in texlive-latex-base, but I can't find a way to install it into my minimal system with tlmgr, since CTAN has no babel-farsi or babel-persian package. Any ideas?

So, update on my #TeXLaTeΧ journeys:

It turns out that the transitions are just part of PDF since 1.5 and that's why Beamer supports them.
The issue seems to be that not every PDF viewer supports them yet, so it's still limited.

Regarding playing animations and films in Beamer, the feature relies heavily on using pdflatex to compile, since it was put together by someone ~20 years ago and will not be fixed for other compilers.