Tag: latex

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  • TeXLive = (La)TeX + Batteries

    Posted on Sept. 5, 2008 at 22:54 +0200 Tagged with , , , ,

    One of the problems I had to fight for a long time when using TeX over the years was that I often found a snippet on the net that was supposed to do exactly what I've been looking for, but when I then tried to use it at least one .sty or some other kind of package was missing and it was once again Google-time. When I switched to the fruity side of computing MacPorts installed TeXLive for me. TeXLive is a TeX distribution by the TUG, the TeX User Groups, that's at least according to the German news-site heise.de the biggest TeX distribution out there.

    So 2 days ago the TUG released this year's edition of the distribution that comes with tons of new stuff, most notably a package manager (tlmgr) that lets you easily add, remove and update TeX packages. People using MiKTeX should know this whole idea of actually managing TeX packages ;-) For a complete listing of additions, checkout the relevant page in the docs.

    And perhaps, while working on my master thesis, I can finally dig a little deeper into TeX without having to google for packages every couple of seconds thanks to TeXLive :-)

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  • LaTeX: Section label vs. Figure label

    Posted on June 11, 2007 at 18:04 +0200 Tagged with

    Just found out something about LaTeX that I ... actually hadn't anticipated: The whole cross-referencing seems to be quite fragile.

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  • PDFView: A new PDF viewer for Mac users

    Posted on Dec. 27, 2006 at 13:42 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    It's not like there is a shortage on PDF support on MacOSX. First of all, you get a quite good PDF viewer with Preview.app bundled with MacOSX and there is also the Acrobat Reader series by Adobe ... although Acrobat Reader 8 is the slowest app I've ever seen.

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