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TeX Users Group<p>From <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CTAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CTAN</span></a>:</p><p>Cédric Pierquet submitted an update to the customenvs package.</p><p>Version: 0.3.4 2025-05-03<br>License: lppl1.3c cc-by-sa-4</p><p>Summary description: Custom environments (MCQ, list with picked items, ...)</p><p><a href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/customenvs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ctan.org/pkg/customenvs</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@cpierquet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cpierquet</span></a></span></p>
TeX Users Group<p>From <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CTAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CTAN</span></a>:</p><p>Cédric Pierquet submitted an update to the ProfLycee package.</p><p>Version: 3.11e 2025-05-03<br>License: lppl1.3c cc0 cc-by-sa-3</p><p>Summary description: A LaTeX package for French maths teachers in high school</p><p><a href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/proflycee" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">ctan.org/pkg/proflycee</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@cpierquet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cpierquet</span></a></span> 🇫🇷🏫</p>
TeX Users Group<p>Barbara Beeton has been awarded by TUG Board the title of "Wizard of Publications", in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the TeX community and to TUG, notably including her editorship of TUGboat and of all other TUG publications to date.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TUG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TUG</span></a></p>
Moss (the τεχie) <(fsm)>{{<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@timpritlove" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>timpritlove</span></a></span> <br>Danke, alles prima. (Was ist dieses „Pointer?)<br>Aber Deine Dokumentation könnte ich mal schön machen …. 😬<br><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a></p>
samcarter<p>I might have to stop writing <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TexLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLatex</span></a> packages -- I'm running out of distinguishable colours for the docs :)</p>
Jens Hannemann<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@nakieken" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nakieken</span></a></span> I remember that sound well. My girlfriend (now wife) and I were using <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TexLatex" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TexLatex</span></a> for the first time to write a seminar paper of about 40 pages, or so. You had to pre-compute the fonts for your printer, which took about half a day, and then, because of the high quality printout, a print would take another half day. The printer was in her dorm room. Yeah, she spent the night at my place... Luckily, for our diploma theses, we were later allowed to use the department's new HP Laserjet.</p>
TeX Users Group<p>TUG news: Motion 2025.2 is almost unanimously (with Karl Berry abstaining) approved. The motion awards Karl Berry with with a lifetime membership and the title of "Wizard of Systems" in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the TeX community.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/TUG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TUG</span></a></p>
Paul Cochrane 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TIL</span></a>: I just stumbled across `latexmk`'s "clean" option: `latexmk -c`. 🤯 </p><p>Now, instead of writing</p><p>rm -f *.aux *.fdb_latexmk *.fls *.log *.out</p><p>in my Makefile's `clean` target, I can just write</p><p>latexmk -c</p><p>How cool is that?!?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a></p>
Marei<p>[1/2] Die zweite Präsentation bleibt beim Thema Barrierefreiheit und Ulrike Fischer zeigt einige unterschiedlichen Varianten um <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> nach <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> zu wandeln.<br>Ein Ansatz, den ich zum Beispiel für das frühere Backend der <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@datenschleuder" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>datenschleuder</span></a></span> umgesetzt hatte, um epub mitzuliefern.</p><p>Es wird <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/tex4ht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tex4ht</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Pandoc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pandoc</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/LaTeXML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeXML</span></a>, <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/lwarp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lwarp</span></a> und auch der Weg via <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/NGPDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NGPDF</span></a> (HTML aus den <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/TaggedPDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaggedPDF</span></a>) gezeigt und verglichen.</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/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>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>[1/3] Der Freitag startet mit „Märchenstunde mit Frank [Mittelbach]“. Zuerst mit den Eingeständnis, dass es die Erkenntnis gebraucht hat wahrzunehmen, was wir mit den Dokumenten der letzen Jahrzehnten Personen, die auch <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ScreenReader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScreenReader</span></a> angewiesen sind „angetan haben“.<br>Er gibt allen, die sich bisher nicht Barrierefreiheit beschäftigt haben einen kleinen Einblick darüber was das bedeutet. </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/LaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaTeX</span></a> <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/TaggedPDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TaggedPDF</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/DANTE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DANTE2025</span></a></p>
Paul Cochrane 🇪🇺<p>Debian’s LaTeX packages are great. They’re easy to install and work well in the majority of cases. But they can be outdated. Some recent CTAN packages aren’t available in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> packages, especially if you’ve not upgraded your system in a while. By being careful, it’s possible to replace your Debian-installed LaTeX packages with a vanilla TeX Live installation. This post describes the steps involved in migrating to a bright, shiny, up-to-date <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> distribution.</p><p><a href="https://peateasea.de/replacing-debian-latex-packages-with-vanilla-tex-live/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peateasea.de/replacing-debian-</span><span class="invisible">latex-packages-with-vanilla-tex-live/</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>
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>
ConTeXt group<p>We pushed the first post-<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXlive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXlive</span></a> 2025 update. Apart from a few pending patches, we spend some time on what we call retrotex and retropost.</p><p>🧵 </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> because general <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LuaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LuaTeX</span></a> is affected.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TeXConTeXt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXConTeXt</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/LuaMetaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LuaMetaTeX</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>
Jens Kutílek<p>Typesetting a font specimen for a <a href="https://typo.social/tags/VariableFont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VariableFont</span></a> with <a href="https://typo.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> is one of the last adventures apparently ;)<br>But I got it working now. luaotfload seems to be buggy, but set to render the fonts with <a href="https://typo.social/tags/HarfBuzz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HarfBuzz</span></a> it seems to work.</p>
Omikhleia - Dragon Brumeux<p>Today's feeling? Pure joy! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SILE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SILE</span></a> 0.15.10 is available, and it simply wouldn’t have happened without <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@alerque" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>alerque</span></a></span>’s dedication—hats off! 🎩</p><p>I know <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TeXLaTeX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TeXLaTeX</span></a> are time-tested champions, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Typst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Typst</span></a> is making waves. But have you given SILE a chance?<br>✨ Very decent TeX-like math support<br>🤖 One of the smartest automated italic correction heuristics<br>📚 Improved Bib(La)TeX + CSL citation support<br>🔍 A revamped indexer package</p><p>Now’s the perfect time to explore SILE!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalTypesetting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalTypesetting</span></a></p>