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Version 6.0 of the powerful LaTeX editor WinEdt has been released. Its interface has been improved but some awaited features like folding and unicode support will come later with version 6.1.
WinEdt is a popular (La)TeX editor on Windows. A new major release, version 6, has just appeared on the WinEdt homepage. The interface has received a lot of attention, with new icons and menu arrangements. One thing that a lot of people have been hoping for is UTF-8 support, but the release notes say Avoid sending [...]
I conducted an Introductory Workshop to LaTeX at MMU (Cyberjaya Campus) yesterday (8 March). If anyone's interested, the workshop materials (slides, worksheet, sample code, MiKTeX installation guide) are available here.
Most chemistry journals use numbered citation styles, with all of the references appearing at the end of the article in a References section. However, there are some that place the references at the bottom of the page they occur on, as footnotes. This is a bit more awkward to achieve than a simple section, but [...]
I found out these useful tools:BibTeX2HTML : http://www.lri.fr/~filliatr/bibtex2html/doc/Springerlink BibTeX converter; http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~niu/cgi-bin/springer.cgi...and I wonder why on earth Springerlink did not put their BibTeX export format by default...? IEEE and ACM did that!
UK-TUG recently posted the latest edition of Baskerville to members. This is available to everyone in electronic format: download the PDF. New articles are always welcome: please contact the editor with ideas!
So if you updated all your packages in one go and finds that your beamer presentations don't compile anymore, this is why. Don't panic though (42), there's a workaround: put the following line before \documentclass{beamer}:\makeatletter\let\ifGm@compatii\relax\makeatother\documentclass{beamer}Read this post for more information.
There is a clash between the current versions of the geometry package and the beamer class. So if you update all your packages and try to process a beamer document you will get the following error. ! Undefined control sequence. \Gm@lmargin ->\Geom@lmargin This is due to a new version of geometry (v5.0). Until the geometry package developers fix the [...]
I recently posted some information on building biblatex-biber. Since then, v0.5 of biblatex-biber has appeared and there are some positive changes. The code now creates its own file to grab the required Perl modules. So on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) and Ubuntu (9.10) all I needed to do after downloading the source was perl Build.PL sudo [...]
For some time now, ConTeXt can read files directly off the web. So, you can say \starttext \component {https://docs.google.com/MiscCommands?command=saveasdoc&docID=0AbXLuM4SVI8PZGc2Y2QzamhfOWNzM3Z3aGM5&exportFormat=txt} \stoptext process it with context. ConTeXt will figure out the file name is a url, use curl to download it and read the downloaded file. On subsequent run, ConTeXt just checks if a file with the same name exists, and [...]
A while ago I talked about the variation between different chemistry publishers in their LaTeX support. Looking for something on the Royal Society of Chemistry site today I find that the people at Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics have created an updated template for TeX users. I’d say that is good news: remember of course that [...]
After the beta release of 3.31 in October 2009 the actual Version 3.31 of the TeX/LaTeX-IDE WinShell has been released by Ingo H. de Boer yesterday.
There is now finally a Malaysian CTAN mirror server at ftp://mirror.upm.edu.my/ctan/! Oh joy oh joy! Hopefully now all downloads and updates will be a breeze (M'sian network latency being what it is :p) (oh ye of little faith liantze, baaad girl!)It's already showed up in MikTeX's mirror list. For TeXLive users, just point your repository to ftp://mirror.upm.edu.my/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/.
In my post box a few days ago was the proceedings of the EuroTeX 2009 conference (TUGBoat 30:3, which I get as a joint member of TUG and UK-TUG). Quite a few of the articles are about ConTeXt, not surprising as the 3rd ConTeXt meeting took place in parallel to EuroTeX. The highlights will [...]
Today version 2.31 of TeXShop has been released. TeXShop is a free and open source TeX editor and previewer for Mac OS X written by Richard Koch. The new version requires at least System 10.4 (Tiger) but System 10.5 (Leopard) is strongly recommended.
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