A day in the life of a TeX.sx moderator
I was asked recently to write about a day in the life of a moderator…
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…
Stack Exchange is institutional member of the TeX Users Group
The TeX Users Group (TUG) is a not-for-profit organization for TeX users word wide. TUG…
The Braids Package
Introduction As Seamus has already said, there have been several packages that started life as…
Keeping on top of the unanswered questions
Keeping a lid on the number of unanswered questions is an ongoing challenge. A little…
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,…
It’s me, LaTeX, do you copy?
I was wondering what we could expect from our text editors when typesetting LaTeX documents.…
Do the Knuth Shuffle
Introduction That Donald Knuth is a genius is an axiom that I doubt any user…
How TeX.SX improves TeX and friends for everybody
It’s not just people who ask questions on the site that benefit from the experience…