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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…
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TeX4ht and BibLaTeX 2.2
Read more: TeX4ht and BibLaTeX 2.2TeX4ht has been updated to cope with the newest incarnation of biblatex ver. 2.2. All its 43 example files provided with documentation have been tested and seem to work fine. Each example file with html output plus all the auxiliary files generated have been archived and provided below for users to check for problems, if…
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Jelly Bean on your Galaxy Nexus Phone
Read more: Jelly Bean on your Galaxy Nexus PhoneGalaxy Nexus phone comes with a lot of different firmware variants which are updated by Samsung except three which are maintained by Google. If you are fortunate to get a Nexus phone with Google maintained firmware, you will receive updates over the air (OTA) as soon as new releases are made. Samsung releases are usually…
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TeX4ht and biblatex
Read more: TeX4ht and biblatexThe very powerful LaTeX bibliography processing package namely, biblatex.sty often clashes with TeX4ht. I do not have much knowledge about the innards of biblatex. However, I could fix problems found in biblatex.4ht consequent to two previous revisions. Now one more revision had taken place, as we can expect, TeX4ht fails to work with current version…
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TeX4ht: Low-level Commands
Read more: TeX4ht: Low-level CommandsThere are four commands which are very useful to write custom configuration for TeX4ht. They are:
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Software Freedom
Read more: Software FreedomSeptember 18 is the day of software freedom, celebrated by people around the world who believe in the four basic freedom aspect of software — freedom to run, study, change and distribute copies with or without changes. It is the result of the techno-political resistance movement led by Richard Stallman (RMS) who is credited with…
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KSSN: A Venerable Silent Mathematician
Read more: KSSN: A Venerable Silent MathematicianA funny incident happened when Prof KSS Nambooripad (KSSN) started his career as a faculty member in the maths department of UC College, Alwaye in central Kerala. One of the students stood up and asked why should they learn mathematics, as he could not find any compelling reasons to learn it.