Category: TeX
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The LaTeX Tutorial
Read more: The LaTeX TutorialIt is only a pre-release version 1 for the user community to go through the book and suggest further modifications, corrections, etc. Many people have contributed to this volume, but notable among them is Dr E Krishnan, an ardent free software and maths education activist who served as the chief editor of the book. Apart…
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Awesome font Packages
Read more: Awesome font PackagesEverybody loves the icons provided by Font Awesome since they are pixel perfect, accessibility minded, desktop and web friendly. The free version of the font provides 1,535 icons and pro version provides 7016 icons which encompass almost all facets of human activities for which an icon might be necessitated when a software interface or web…
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Biblatex 3.0
Read more: Biblatex 3.0Biblatex package has undergone numerous changes because of its revision to version 3.0. The back-end namely biber (the modern equivalent of BibTeX program) which is needed to exploit all the features of biblatex has also been upgraded to a newer version with changes in the data structure of the resultant bibliographic listing file. Both these…
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TeXPortal, a TeX system for Android
Read more: TeXPortal, a TeX system for AndroidIf you’re an Android user looking for a complete TEX system in a tablet, here is a glad news waiting for you . An application namely, TEXPortal in combination with TEXpert will make a complete TEX system in your Android tablet or smart phone. TEXPortal is a complete TEXLive distribution ported for Android and TEXpert…
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TLC in ePub format
Read more: TLC in ePub formatFrank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens, with Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley. The LATEX Companion -– 2nd ed. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-201-36299-6. 2004, Pearson Education, Inc., Boston, MA. The 1,200 pages long The LATEX Companion (TLC) is now available in a variety of ebook formats — ePUB, mobi and PDF. To…
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TeX4ht and Multicolumn Layout
Read more: TeX4ht and Multicolumn LayoutNasser M. Abbassi had filed a feature request at TeX4ht project for multicolumn support in TeX4ht which is lacking at the moment. This link provides the latest specifications of W3C relating to multicolumn layout in HTML which some of the mainstream browsers support in varying degrees. Our initial efforts are pointed towards multicol package so…
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Biblatex 2.5
Read more: Biblatex 2.5Two updates have already been made for biblatex since we tested compatibility problems of TeX4ht with the package last. This time, except for one change of the string, URL, which was hardwired in previous versions, becoming a localization string, all the remaining changes relate to biber, the bib database processor. None of these have any…
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Biblatex 2.3
Read more: Biblatex 2.3You might have noted that biblatex has been updated to version 2.3 and the documentation documentation says: If an entry in the revision history states that a feature has been improved or extended, this indicates a modification which either does not affect the syntax and behavior of the package or is syntactically backwards compatible (such…
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An Annotated TeX Source
Read more: An Annotated TeX SourceMahesh wanted to see the annotated source of the TeX document that generated the output shown here. There are two components in the source: (1) document source, let us call it as test.tex, (2) a custom configuration for TeX4ht, let us call it as my.cfg.
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TeX4ht Supports Lettrine
Read more: TeX4ht Supports LettrineRaphaël Pinson has kindly contributed the code that enables TeX4ht to support lettrine package. (lettrine.sty helps to typeset dropped capitals in a LaTeX document.) This probably will solve the long standing problem of drop capital support in TeX4ht, even if all the options of lettrine package are not supported at this time. Hope, Raphaël will…