The cake is a lie
It all started a few days ago, when we had a question on TeX.sx about…
Category: LaTeX
Non-Standard Code – A Workaround
Introduction After answering the question about macro for \left( and \right) I realized that there’s…
Building documents with rubber
It’s common to compile our documents a couple of times to ensure, amongst other things,…
I TeX therefore iPad
Introduction I have a new toy. It’s an iPad. Naturally the first thing that I…
The TQFT Package
Introduction I’ve now uploaded the second of the TeX-SX packages to CTAN. This is the…
Overkill is a good thing
Recently, a question was asked about how to get enumeration with non-sequential, random-ish numbers. (I…
Drawing Molecules
Introduction This a placeholder post. For reasons that are too lengthy to go into, I…
Control widows and orphans easily
In a question some time ago, I was trying to implement a wrapper around the…
The Braids Package
Introduction As Seamus has already said, there have been several packages that started life as…
A Short Journey with LaTeX
Like many open-source aficionados, I’ve used LaTeX for quite some time. I have at least…
SourceForge and LPPL
A few days ago, a nice question came up on TeX.sx about which open source…
Putting colors in initials
The lettrine package is very useful to typeset initials (or drop caps) in LaTeX. However,…