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TeX Live 2013 has been released
What the #&$% Automatically censoring words in TeX by grawlixes / obscenicons
How to prevent rogue wireless access points on a network
Benefits of the Cisco "top of rack" design
Best dual-provider design for redundant WAN connections
How to diagnose a bridging (ethernet) loop? Troubleshooting tips
1G and 10G cabling - pros and cons of fiber vs. twisted pair (copper)
IPv6 address space layout best practices
You you want a networking Stack Exchange site? If yes, show your support
How (La)TeX projects are financed, or: where do LaTeX Companion royalties go
Re:New stable version TeXworks 0.4.5 released
on Sunday April 14, 2013 @12:14PM (#5547246)
TeXworks is slim and quick. It was one of the first TeX editors with an integrated PDF previewer and especially an automatically split screen for writing and previewing. The same GUI on Linux and Windows makes switching between platforms easy.
New stable version TeXworks 0.4.5 released
Re:LyX participates in the Google Summer of Code 2013
on Friday April 12, 2013 @05:45AM (#5537475)
Then ports of LyX to iOS and Android would be great: so we could use LaTeX on the iPad or Android tablets when we have Internet via WiFi or 3G/4G available.
LyX participates in the Google Summer of Code 2013
E-TeX - past, present and future of Extended TeX
TeX Live 2013 Release plan details announced today
LaTeX Tricks VII: lining up items, long names for labels, beamer, and floats
XeTeX now works with HarfBuzz and with 64 bit on the Mac
Texmaker 4.0 released, now based on Qt5
The missing unpublished old Italian translation of The TeXbook done by prisoners
Transplanting TeX Live from one Windows system to another one
The maximum number of pages in a PDF which TeX can produce
Re:How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?
on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:46PM (#5105809)
Which capable open source software from this century would you recommend?
When I divert from a class or a package, I look at the source and redefine it as I desire. I have full control with LaTeX regarding the finest details. Which software gives you full control?
Re:How can I explain the meaning of LaTeX to my grandma?
on Wednesday January 23, 2013 @05:07PM (#5105606)
I used it for creative writing. While I used LaTeX for the text, I heavily used TikZ: the "mindmap" library for drawing mindmaps, the "chains" library for story lines, the "trees" library for relations and connections of fictional characters, matrices for easy positiong, arrows for connecting. And a very good point was: I could use the same macros in the conceptional drawings as in the text, regarding macros for names for example which still could change, and so staying consistent.