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Tammy Kolda<p>Milestone/Nerd Alert: I've created 2⁵-1 YouTube videos about TikZ and PGFPLOTS at @UnlockingLaTeXGraphics. For those who don't know, TikZ and PGFPLOTS are tools for creating beautiful graphics directly within your LaTeX documents. The learning curve is arguably steep, but the payoff is immense. With these videos, I'm hoping to make it easier for more people to use these tools. I've also written a book with the same name. Check it out and share with your network. Thanks! <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/texlatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>texlatex</span></a> </p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/@UnlockingLaTeXGraphics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/@UnlockingLaTeXGra</span><span class="invisible">phics</span></a></p>
Jürgen Hubert<p><a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/WritersCoffeeClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritersCoffeeClub</span></a> 6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?</p><p>My writing and editing process is:</p><p>1. Write the first draft of my translation on my e-ink tablet. This will have quite a few mistakes, and I often don't bother to look up some of the more complex words.</p><p>2. Do a first round of editing on my desktop PC at least one day later. I try to get this cleaned up as much as possible.</p><p>3. Proofread the text on my _other_ e-ink tablet, at least one day after Step 2. Correct any mistakes and improve anything else I can find. Schedule this text for my Patreon page.</p><p>4. Some time later, typeset the text with <a href="https://mementomori.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> . I will usually find a few problems at this stage as well, which I will correct.</p><p>5. _Much_ later, I will assemble individual translations into a larger book, which will get _three_ further rounds of proofreading (two by me, one by a copywriter) as well as feedback from alpha and beta readers.</p><p>In other words, editing is a continual process that accompanies all other steps of writing.</p><p>Yet I _still_ have accumulated a bunch of errata which I want to include in future printings...</p>
Marei<p>[1/3] <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTE2025</span></a> Friday starts with “Storytelling with Frank [Mittelbach]”. He admits that it took a while for himself to realize how bad we treated users relying on assisting technology like screen readers! He tries to give a rough overview of this impression by playing screen reader recordings of an untagged document compared to the work the tagging-project did so far. The examples can be found at <a href="https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/documentation/wtpdf/fulldoc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">latex3.github.io/tagging-proje</span><span class="invisible">ct/documentation/wtpdf/fulldoc</span></a></p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/a11y" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>a11y</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeX</span></a></p>
Marei<p>Afterwards Erik Braun roughly explained the technical infrastructure and changes of last year to cleanup the historically grown server blob. A lot of stuff was improved but there still is a lot of work left and <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CTAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CTAN</span></a> is once again asking for volunteers.</p><p>So in case you have too much free time or always wanted to clean up, automate or document old infrastructure… You are welcome to join them!<br>(And I always offer cookies when uploading a package update… you can take those!)</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTE2025</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a></p>
Marei<p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTE2025</span></a> is starting at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt. </p><p>Mr. Lion and me are extremly curious about discussions and expecting a boost concerning tagging and accesibility of <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a>.</p><p>We already realized yesterday, that there is too little time for all the projects we are working on… but … we are all trying our best.</p><p>I will try to sum up the talks below this.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a></p>
Marei<p>EN in first answer.</p><p>Die <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTE2025</span></a> startet an der Hochschule Darmstadt. </p><p>Der Löwe und ich sind startklar gespannt auf die Diskussionen. Vermutlich wieder viel zu tagging und Barrierefreiheit. </p><p>Gestern beim Vorabendtreff haben wir schon festgestellt, dass alle hier noch viel zu viel Dinge getan haben wollten… aber leider hat der Tag nur 24h … aber wir bleiben dran.</p><p>Unter diesem Toot versuche ich wieder etwas die Vorträge zusammenzufassen.</p><p><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a></p>
Christian Lawson-Perfect<p>Can any <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> experts explain to me why `\renewcommand{\&gt; }{\rangle}` doesn't work in pdflatex, but `\renewcommand{\&gt;}{\rangle}` does? (The working version has no space after `\&gt;`)</p>
Deyan Ginev<p>Easily my favourite April 1st paper this year. </p><p>Brave and terrifying. <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/arxiv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arxiv</span></a></p><p>paper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>homepage: <a href="https://neuralatex.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">neuralatex.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Richard Zach<p>I wrote up what I learned converting an open textbook in LaTeX to HTML and making it accessible <a href="https://richardzach.org/2025/03/accessible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">richardzach.org/2025/03/access</span><span class="invisible">ible-open-textbooks-in-math-heavy-disciplines/</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/TexLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/OER" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OER</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blind</span></a></p>
Marei<p>Jetzt nutzen allen ernstes Leute die Kommentarfunktion der Liste des <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/VGSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VGSD</span></a> für <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Erechnung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Erechnung</span></a> Lösungen für Supportanfragen bezüglich meines <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ZUGFeRD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZUGFeRD</span></a> Pakets.</p><p>Manchmal frage ich mich ob es nicht doch eine doofe Idee war, sowas einfach zur Verfügung zu stellen … </p><p>Also ich würde es wieder machen… aus Prinzip, aber es hinterlässt mich an manchen Tage ratlos …</p>
doctorambient<p>I swear that I will never again write a scientific paper in either <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MSWord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MSWord</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleDocs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleDocs</span></a>. Ever.</p><p>I don't care that my collaborators in a medical school can't handle <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a>. The costs of final typesetting and conversion are just Too Fucking High.</p><p>It's costing me more than a week of my life just to do menial shit that is fully automatic with my normal workflow. smh</p><p>I know that my normal tool chain lacks some collaboration tools, but I just don't care anymore.</p>
Markus Werle<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dilawar" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dilawar</span></a></span> I am definitely a <a href="https://nrw.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> fan, but it is simply impossible to write good code in it.</p>
dilawar<p>An underappreciated feature of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> is that Rust code found in the wild is very much likely to work and is of good quality. The crate doesn't have to be super mature! </p><p>My experience with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rust</span></a> code in the wild is much much better than JS or python code which is not suprising if you think about it. Programmers coding in <br>"hard" languages generally write better code? Perhaps same thing is with <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Haskell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Haskell</span></a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TexLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLatex</span></a> ?</p>
スパックマン クリス<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@mguhlin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mguhlin</span></a></span> </p><p>I decided to go with the landscape pdf option. Students' chromebooks can't read epubs natively, and it would take a while for IT to okay an extension (and I prefer to avoid extensions).</p><p>Also, <a href="https://twit.social/tags/pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandoc</span></a> didn't add inter-document links when converting from <a href="https://twit.social/tags/TexLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLatex</span></a> to epub.* This is a "choose your own adventure" story, so jumping around the doc is 100% necessary.</p><p>End of day, a roughly 6x9 inch landscape pdf will probably work best.</p><p>* to be fair, I spent zero time looking for solution</p>
Cyril I. 🧮📐<p>Nouveau sujet dans AutomaTeX</p><p>🔗<a href="https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/automatex/6e/AutomaTex(20)/automatex(20).html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/</span><span class="invisible">automatex/6e/AutomaTex(20)/automatex(20).html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/AutomaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AutomaTeX</span></a> génère aléatoirement des exercices d'automatismes en <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a><br>(sans avoir besoin de connaître ce langage).</p><p>🏠Page d'accueil d'AutomaTeX : <a href="https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/TexLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/TeamMaths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamMaths</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/6e" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>6e</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/Cycle3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cycle3</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/TeamPE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamPE</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/WhyNot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhyNot</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/TeamProf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeamProf</span></a></p>
Marei<p>Ich wollte vorhin gerade tooten, und schon kamen Menschen mit Fragen vorbei … ;-)</p><p>Aber jetzt euch für euch: Der Löwe, ein paar andere und ich sind heute auf den <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/CLT2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CLT2025</span></a> am <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTEeV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTEeV</span></a> Stand und beantworten wieder Fragen rund um <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeX</span></a> &amp; Friends. Also falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> Problemchen habt, oder Anregungen oder einfach nur den Löwen besuchen wollt … </p><p>Er verteilt heute auch wieder kleine Löwen Ansteck-Pins. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@clt_news" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>clt_news</span></a></span></p>
Christian Testa<p>Over the past couple of years, I've really fallen in love with <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/tikz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tikz</span></a> and all of its quirks. </p><p>TikZ is a plotting/graphics package for LaTeX that is especially useful for creating mathematical diagrams. </p><p>The support for mathematical notation is unbeatable and the flexibility of the language is extremely high. Also, graphics rendered to pdf/svg in this way are extremely lightweight and reproducible. </p><p>I do find it very challenging syntax to remember though, so I put together this GitHub repository to keep track of tikz code I've written. </p><p><a href="https://github.com/ctesta01/tikz-examples/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/ctesta01/tikz-examp</span><span class="invisible">les/</span></a></p><p>Each graphic shown in the README is linked to its underlying .tex code. </p><p>Also the README has several links to documentation / tutorials that I've found helpful along with some tips I've learned from experience. </p><p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statistics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/probability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probability</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/geometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geometry</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/graphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>graphics</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a></p>
Jouni Seppänen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodontti.fi/@tomminieminen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tomminieminen</span></a></span> <a href="https://kamu.social/tags/Overleaf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Overleaf</span></a> on verkkoselaimessa käytettävä ohjelmisto, jolla voi tehdä ja esikatsella LaTeX-dokumentteja. Eräät tuntemani yliopistomatemaatikot käyttävät sitä ahkerasti, ja Helsingin yliopisto tietääkseni maksaa henkilökunnalle tilauksen.</p><p><a href="https://www.overleaf.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">overleaf.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://kamu.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://kamu.social/tags/matematiikka" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>matematiikka</span></a></p>
Dr. Max<p>After having done a lot of reviews for conferences again lately, let me give you some advice. If you submit a paper, and there is a Microsoft Word and a LaTeX template: Do yourself, the reviewers, the editors, and the readers a favour: use the <a href="https://c.im/tags/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> template and resist the seemingly easier alternative of Word. Almost all of the formatting errors are because of Word. It looks like shit. On top of that: in case your paper is rejected and you want to submit it to another conference, it's easy if you have content and format separately, it's a PITA if you have to format the whole text and bibliography to adapt to a different style.<br>Please. Use <a href="https://c.im/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a>. It is made for exactly that. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Word</span></a> is for something else (not sure what tbh).</p>
スパックマン クリス<p>Turning 80-ish (usa letter-sized) pages of reading into Google Slides so students can read more comfortably on their Chromebooks.</p><p>I really wish I could just use an HTML page, but last I looked Google Drive won't display HTML files as web pages. </p><p>I suppose I could make it 8.5x5.5 landscape PDF, but not sure how well that would work on their screens.</p><p>Any thoughts?</p><p>(Reading started in <a href="https://twit.social/tags/TexLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLatex</span></a>, so I can <a href="https://twit.social/tags/pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandoc</span></a> it into just about anything.)</p><p><a href="https://twit.social/tags/K12" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>K12</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/K12Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>K12Education</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/EdTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EdTech</span></a> <a href="https://twit.social/tags/GoogleDrive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleDrive</span></a></p>
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