I’m currently writing a report in using Overleaf. As I’m getting the premium version for free through my Uni, I’ve had no problems so far. Now I’m working in a place with unstable internet and using Overleaf has become very annoying....
If you’re on Linux, I found Gummy to be the closest to Overleaf’s constant recompilation. My default has always been TexStudio, it has a good UI, but you can also use a VSCode extension. These are all just editors, though. You’d also need to download LaTeX locally. On Windows, that’s MikTeX, on Mac it’s MacTeX, and on Linux texlive is usually already installed, but you may need to install packages. On Debian-based distros, they’re grouped into collections like texlive-science.
I will say that I’ve helped friends who were very used to overleaf to a local editor, and they were quite frustrated that TeXStudio wasn’t exactly 1:1 with the overleaf UI. Please know beforehand that if you’re expecting to be able to do things like open images in the TeX editor to check on them before inserting them, that’s not gonna happen.
OH: Warum sollte man eine Tagung in Saarbrücken abhalten, wenn man das auch in Weimar machen kann.
Grüße aus dem Festsaal des Gothe Nationalmuseums in Weimar vom Start der #DANTE2024. Bin gespannt auf das Programm zu #TeXLaTeX, #TeX, #TeXConTeXt & Friends
Weiter ging es mit zwei kurzen Lightning talks. Einmal die Vorstellung des maloch beamer themes als gepflegter Fork des metropolis themes. Hat ein paar Fest Abhängigkeiten entfernt und ist dadurch flexibler. (https://ctan.org/pkg/moloch, vorgestellt von @samcarter)
Adelheid Bonetsmüller stellt danach ein plain #TeX Skript vor, dass für die Berechnung vom nächsten Freitag den 13. verwendet werden kann. (Link wird nachgereicht, hab den Namen vergessen)
Falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere TeXnische Problemchen oder Fragen habt und auf den #clt2024 unterwegs seid, gerne beim DANTE Stand vorbeikommen.
Post your daily driver keeb. Doesn’t have to be mechanical. Here’s mine (minus the artisans, they’re just window-dressing whenever I take it to meetups). #Mechanicalkeyboards#mechanicalkeyboard#mechkeys
I feel that my next frontier of hacker learning is #TeX. It feels (at least from the distance I'm at right now) like the next level in text formatting and publishing. I have a feeling it might be as revolutionary as when I learned #vim after using nano/gedit for years.
For a person who doesn't write "publishing" documents very often, is it worthy?
For my international audience (because i can't believe my #German audience could have missed this).
After the recent #antifascist#antifa demonstations there has been a popularisation of the #antifasticker meme. People from all walks of live appropriate symbols from their lived experience and combine it with the antifascist logo for something amusing. Here are some samples with alt-texts providing a translation/explanation. A thread 🧵1/10 : #WorkerRights #colorblind#nyancat#cthulhu
Kto pisał dokumenty w LaTeX, ten wie, że przypomina to miłość (nie seks, on jest alegorią dla innych metod składu 😜 ): i słodko, i gorzko, rozkosz wielka i ból nie mniejszy, za to wiernie, stale i spolegliwie.
Ale LaTeX miał (i ma) poważne słabości, bo nie przeskoczył do natywnego Unikodu, ani nie przyjął aktualnych standardów fontów (TTF/OTF) - stąd też i ból. A LaTeX_3e w bólach się rodzi i narodzić nie może
Ale od paru lat rozwija się projekt SILE https://sile-typesetter.org/, który pełnymi garściami czerpie z LaTeXa, ale zaczyna tam, dokąd ten jeszcze się nie doczołgał. Polecam sprawdzić.
Le saviez-vous ? (moi pas, je découvre, and I think it's beautiful)
Le système libre de composition de documents #TeX ne suit pas une progression croissante dans sa numérotation de version.
En effet, depuis la version 3, les mises à jour sont indiquées en ajoutant une décimale supplémentaire, s'approchant ainsi toujours un peu plus de π, et donc de la stabilité absolue, à chaque itération.
La dernière version est la 3.141592653 et elle date de janvier 2021.
(Some people add %O %S after evince, but those are unnecessary in my case.)
The command runs xelatex, creates a pdf, and opens it in #Evince; and it continues running so that any change in document.tex appears in Evince shortly after it is saved.
I've also created an #Emacs command to run the process.
Guy complaining about the ragged2e package being extremly slow.
Luckily someone else was nice enough to report that bug so I was able to fix it 6 months ago and could blame that guy for not updating :P
I know most people don't do regular #TeXLive updates. But there might reasons that there were more than 1.4k updates publsihed on CTAN in 2022. So please ensure you're on the latest version before complaining.
Please do not use the #ASCII grave accent (0x60) as a left quotation mark together with the ASCII apostrophe (0x27) as the corresponding right quotation mark (as in `quote'). Your text will otherwise appear rather strange with most modern fonts (e.g., on #Windows and Mac systems). Only old X Window System fonts and some old video terminals show ASCII 0x60/0x27 as left and right quotation marks, while most modern systems follow the ISO and Unicode standards instead. If you can use only ASCII’s typewriter characters, then use the apostrophe character (0x27) as both the left and right quotation mark (as in 'quote'). If you can use #Unicode characters, nice directional quotation marks are available in the form of characters U+2018, U+2019, U+201C, and U+201D (as in ‘quote’ or “quote”).
If you work in an environment where the UTF-8 encoding is already used everywhere (e.g., Plan9 and most modern GNU/Linux installations), you could even decide to use proper directional quotation marks, as in ‘quote’ or “quote”.
Check your source code directories with
grep *`
to find out, where modifications are necessary. Then use (with proper care!) something like
perl -pi.bak -e "s//'/g;" file1 file2 ...`
to make the necessary substitutions automatically, or make the edits manually instead.
The use of 0x60 (grave accent) as a special control character in the Unix shell (to denote command substitution as in command or better $(command)), in #Perl, in #Lisp, or in #TeX/troff (to denote a proper left single quotation mark) does not have to be changed and remains unaffected https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
What are some good Overleaf (Latex) alternatives?
I’m currently writing a report in using Overleaf. As I’m getting the premium version for free through my Uni, I’ve had no problems so far. Now I’m working in a place with unstable internet and using Overleaf has become very annoying....