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…
Great Questions I: Save Your Fingers
Introduction One of the suggested uses for this blog is to highlight great questions and…
Getting LaTeX on to the web
Introduction We have had quite a few questions on TeX.SX that reduce to: How do…
One year of TeX.SX
Today marks the first birthday for TeX.SX: the site began as a private beta year…
More than typesetting
There was I, four years ago, sitting in front of my lab computer, ready to…
A regular ‘answer the unanswered’ slot
A little while ago, the idea came up in chat of having a regular ‘answer…