Still hacking anyway – LaTeX and DANTE at the Camp
Just 5 days to go, then the hacker camp SHA2017 will start. The name stands…
Twisting a Surface, or: a Doughnut in Outer Space
Do you know this delicious German pastry? (Photo by Guido Draheim). It’s called “ Spritzkuchen”…
TeX Live 2017 published
TeX Live 2017 has been published today. Note, we may need to wait a bit…
A LaTeX editor project on Kickstarter
(This article in German – auf Deutsch) At first I read it on LaTeX.org: there’s…
24 hours left: LaTeX books for $5
Update: Packt closed the $5 sale. Right now, Packt Publishing sells my two LaTeX books…
Building snowmen
It’s winter here, and we are waiting for snow. So we will use TeX instead…
Happy Christmas!
Happy Christmas to everyone! For all, who don’t celebrate christmas, have a great holiday season…
TikZ people
Why do we make fancy things with TikZ? Because we can. Nils Fleischhacker created tikzpeople,…
TeX shapes the landscape
Computer games and science fiction movies use procedural landscapes. Why not use TeX to generate…
Easy ball mindmaps
Since TikZ provides a mindmap library, drawing them is pretty easy: Define your styles Use…
Calculating IP addresses in TeX
Just testing this blog, why not writing a post as an exercise. 🙂 In big…
TUG 2016 in Toronto – The meeting
Here is a small report about the TUG meeting we had during the TUG 2016…