I’m currently writing a report in using Overleaf. As I’m getting the premium version for free through my Uni, I’ve had no problems so far. Now I’m working in a place with unstable internet and using Overleaf has become very annoying....
If you’re on Linux, I found Gummy to be the closest to Overleaf’s constant recompilation. My default has always been TexStudio, it has a good UI, but you can also use a VSCode extension. These are all just editors, though. You’d also need to download LaTeX locally. On Windows, that’s MikTeX, on Mac it’s MacTeX, and on Linux texlive is usually already installed, but you may need to install packages. On Debian-based distros, they’re grouped into collections like texlive-science.
I will say that I’ve helped friends who were very used to overleaf to a local editor, and they were quite frustrated that TeXStudio wasn’t exactly 1:1 with the overleaf UI. Please know beforehand that if you’re expecting to be able to do things like open images in the TeX editor to check on them before inserting them, that’s not gonna happen.
OH: Warum sollte man eine Tagung in Saarbrücken abhalten, wenn man das auch in Weimar machen kann.
Grüße aus dem Festsaal des Gothe Nationalmuseums in Weimar vom Start der #DANTE2024. Bin gespannt auf das Programm zu #TeXLaTeX, #TeX, #TeXConTeXt & Friends
Weiter ging es mit zwei kurzen Lightning talks. Einmal die Vorstellung des maloch beamer themes als gepflegter Fork des metropolis themes. Hat ein paar Fest Abhängigkeiten entfernt und ist dadurch flexibler. (https://ctan.org/pkg/moloch, vorgestellt von @samcarter)
Adelheid Bonetsmüller stellt danach ein plain #TeX Skript vor, dass für die Berechnung vom nächsten Freitag den 13. verwendet werden kann. (Link wird nachgereicht, hab den Namen vergessen)
(Some people add %O %S after evince, but those are unnecessary in my case.)
The command runs xelatex, creates a pdf, and opens it in #Evince; and it continues running so that any change in document.tex appears in Evince shortly after it is saved.
I've also created an #Emacs command to run the process.
Guy complaining about the ragged2e package being extremly slow.
Luckily someone else was nice enough to report that bug so I was able to fix it 6 months ago and could blame that guy for not updating :P
I know most people don't do regular #TeXLive updates. But there might reasons that there were more than 1.4k updates publsihed on CTAN in 2022. So please ensure you're on the latest version before complaining.
PS: There are 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 reasons to offer well-formatted HTML alongside PDF, or to stop PDF-only publishing. Accessibility is first, followed closely by making work friendly to mobile users, users with low bandwidth, and users who need to text-mine, cut/paste, or use machine translation.
Also wenn ich #TeX und #LaTeX von Grund auf verstehen will, dann komme ich wohl um das Buch von Donald Knuth "The TEXbook" nicht drum herum oder? 🤔
Das Spannende an dem Buch ist aktuell, dass auf den ersten Seiten keine Übungen am Programm kommen, sondern man grundsätzliche Dinge über Typografie lernt. 😅
Ein völlig anderer Ansatz, der mir gut gefällt. Alles erstmal ohne PC.
Moonlander, kinesis, ergodox, so many options for split keyboards - but not a single one with a built in trackpoint! Surely there must be a market for it... Hey Tex.com.tw - I love my shinobi, but would you please split it ergonomically down the middle for me, so that my back also loves it? #ergonomics#keyboard#shinobi#tex#kinesis#SplitKeyboards#splitkeyboard
Wir treffen uns das nächste Mal am Dienstag, 16.5., ab 19:00 Uhr in der Gaststätte »Deutsches Haus« / »Orpheo« (Luitpoldstraße 25, Erlangen). Neben #TeX wird bei griechischer Speise auch entspannt über Gott und die Welt diskutiert.
I feel that my next frontier of hacker learning is #TeX. It feels (at least from the distance I'm at right now) like the next level in text formatting and publishing. I have a feeling it might be as revolutionary as when I learned #vim after using nano/gedit for years.
For a person who doesn't write "publishing" documents very often, is it worthy?
[en below] Falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere TeXnische Problem habt… wir bieten im #TeX LaTeX & Friends Village auf dem #cccamp23 jeden Tag von 11:30–13:00 die Möglichkeit beim Helpdesk vorbeizukommen. Ihr dürft auch gerne mit beliebigen Fragen vorbeikommen und wir gucken wie wir weiterhelfen können.
Le saviez-vous ? (moi pas, je découvre, and I think it's beautiful)
Le système libre de composition de documents #TeX ne suit pas une progression croissante dans sa numérotation de version.
En effet, depuis la version 3, les mises à jour sont indiquées en ajoutant une décimale supplémentaire, s'approchant ainsi toujours un peu plus de π, et donc de la stabilité absolue, à chaque itération.
La dernière version est la 3.141592653 et elle date de janvier 2021.
Another reason to hate #Microsoft. I took data from a colleague’s #Powerpoint slide to put into a #LaTeX document. When I processed my file I kept getting errors and I couldn’t see anything with #Emacs that was wrong with the file. It turns out that the original file contained a #zero-width #Unicode character which I couldn’t see! The solution was to use od -c | less to spot anything untoward in my #TeX source #TextFile.
Post your daily driver keeb. Doesn’t have to be mechanical. Here’s mine (minus the artisans, they’re just window-dressing whenever I take it to meetups). #Mechanicalkeyboards#mechanicalkeyboard#mechkeys
After weeks (months?) of neglecting guix-devel email and/or taking vacations, I learn that something unbelievable happened: all of #TeX Live has been imported in #Guix, as 4K+ individual packages, including “collections” and “schemes” (≅ meta-packages): https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Using-TeX-and-LaTeX.html
Thumbs up to Nicolas Goaziou for this achievement!
Kto pisał dokumenty w LaTeX, ten wie, że przypomina to miłość (nie seks, on jest alegorią dla innych metod składu 😜 ): i słodko, i gorzko, rozkosz wielka i ból nie mniejszy, za to wiernie, stale i spolegliwie.
Ale LaTeX miał (i ma) poważne słabości, bo nie przeskoczył do natywnego Unikodu, ani nie przyjął aktualnych standardów fontów (TTF/OTF) - stąd też i ból. A LaTeX_3e w bólach się rodzi i narodzić nie może
Ale od paru lat rozwija się projekt SILE https://sile-typesetter.org/, który pełnymi garściami czerpie z LaTeXa, ale zaczyna tam, dokąd ten jeszcze się nie doczołgał. Polecam sprawdzić.
"Knuth knew that high-resolution digital typesetting machines could produce precise shapes, but the expertise of professional typesetters had been lost in the transition. What if, he wondered, computer software could do the same job? In 1977, Knuth spent the summer as well as part of his sabbatical year working on just such a digital typography program"
➥ Increment Magazine
Falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere TeXnische Problemchen oder Fragen habt und auf den #clt2024 unterwegs seid, gerne beim DANTE Stand vorbeikommen.
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What are some good Overleaf (Latex) alternatives?
I’m currently writing a report in using Overleaf. As I’m getting the premium version for free through my Uni, I’ve had no problems so far. Now I’m working in a place with unstable internet and using Overleaf has become very annoying....