It has finally happened. The tikzmark has burst its bonds and is loose upon an unsuspecting TeX public. We can only hope that they are spared the worst of it.
No-one, repeat no-one, should download it from CTAN unless they truly understand the consequences of using the tikzmark. There is a tikzmark support group for those who find themselves (ab)using it and who need help.
Knot theory is an area of mathematics that usually comes under the aegis of topology and geometry, though it can reach as far as physics and biology and shoelaces. At the cutting edge it involves quite intricate and complicated mathematics, but it is one of those areas where it is quite easy to grasp the basics quite possibly because of the simplicity of the central concept and the visual nature of the subject.
Drawing them, though, is something of an art. In this post I’ll introduce some new tools for helping draw knots, and similar diagrams using one new TikZ library, knots[^1], and one updated one, hobby.
Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for today’s interview: our friend Leo Liu, 33k+ rep, 217+ badges, 467+ answers, author of the zhmCJK package, and a very active member in our community. Get ready for this awesome interview!
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Dear friends, welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a special guest for today’s interview: our friend Marc van Dongen, author of an awesome book on LaTeX and friends, and a movie star! Get ready for this awesome interview!
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Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Ulrike Fischer, 41k+ rep, 181+ badges, and our font expert. Get ready for this awesome interview!
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Today, Google created a doodle (a special logo commemorating a holiday or event) celebrating Bram Stoker’s 165th anniversary. As egreg brilliantly reminded us in the TeX chatroom, November 8th is also an important date for a very special person, it’s the birthday of Hermann Zapf! Hermann is 94 today.
Hermann Zapf at EuroTeX 2006 in Pont-a-Mousson, France (by Adam Twardoch).
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Welcome to the TeXtalk! We have a very special guest for today: our friend Peter Grill, 56k+ rep, 301+ badges, and our resident TikZ expert. Get ready for this awesome interview!
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The TeX-sx site is a great place to ask TeX-related questions, but there are some really common questions that it makes sense to collect up in a Frequently Asked Question list. In English, UK-TUG founded such a list many years ago, and it’s grown under the stewardship of Robin Fairbairns to be an excellent resource. In German, DANTE have an FAQ list, but it’s not had the same loving care that the English equivalent has received. That’s a surprise, as there are a lot of German-speaking TeX users.
TeX-sx regular and DANTE board member Patrick Gundlach (‘topskip’) has now taken this situation in hand, and has set up texfragen.de as a new FAQ in German with a sensible back-end and a Creative Commons license. The list is just being set up, and what is needed is help to grow the information. That’s easy to contribute as the site is build on GitHub, and e-mail contributions are welcome. I hope our German-speaking TeX-sx contributors all add an answer or two!
Some time ago, I wrote a blog post about generating LaTeX code with a template engine. Yesterday, I finished an application for a client which had a lot of templates; since my hands were already dirty in the template clay, I decided to revisit the whole idea and come up with some sort of merging tool. And yes, there’s also a duck involved.
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