TeX Live 2025
Tex Live is due for release today, 8th March 2025. Please see their website for updates.
This will no longer fit on a standard size DVD (4.7gb) you can create a USB stick from the image. If possible please try and use a torrent client as this reduces the pressure on the HTTP servers.
Torrents now available
Please follow TeX User's Group @TeXUsersGroup@techhub.social on Mastodon for updates.
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#Writing,#Documents,#DocumentPreparation,#LaTeX,#TeXLive
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Updating Mastodon Presentation
Intro
I last updated my Mastodon Presentation in 2020, I have been working on a new version using Overleaf and the LaTeX typesetting system.
I have tried to make sure it is clear what both the Fediverse is, what Mastodon is and how Mastodon fits within the Fediverse.
The old version, written in LibreOffice Inpress is here.
The new version is here
New version uses
- Overleaf Online editor
- LaTex + Beamer
- External assets e.g graphics
- main.tex
You can clone this in the usual way
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/zleap-guest/mastodonpresentation2024
I am still not very good at using git, and there is little in the way of support within Torbay at the moment.
License
Work released under creative commons. Please feel free to clone and fork so it works for you and how you would like to promote Fedi and Mastodon.
Contact
Please see contact page.
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#Mastodon,#Presentation,#Fediverse,#Advocacy.#Beamer,#LaTeX
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Overleaf Beta Testing
As I have signed up in the Overleaf beta testing programme, I am able to access new features early. The latest is testing their AI tool to help fix any errors to the LaTeX code.
This is going well so far, and seems a useful feature, especially as LaTeX can throw up problems that are harder to identify at times
Updates
7/7/2024 : I have made a video to illustrate how this feature can be used:
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#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#BetaProgramme,#AI,#Testing,#Document,#Writing
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TeX Live 2024
TeX Live 2024 is now available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.
Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.
Writing
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#TeXLive,#LaTeX,#Release,#Writing,#CTAN
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EdX LaTeX course update
I have nearly finished the course, however I seem to have gone past the deadline so my audit period has expired. I just need to complete the section on referencing, indexing and cross-referencing.
To be fair, I can do the above anyway, I do get a little mixed up on cross-referencing, so this section would have been useful for that.
I will get in touch to see if this can be extended for a week or so, so that I can complete.l
References
- IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists
- EdX
- IITBombayX
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#Course,#LaTeX,#Writing,#Learning
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LaTeX : Course takeaway – Page Orientation
I am still undertaking the EdX LaTeX Course, however one of the useful takeaways so far for me is to use the pdflscape package rather than the lscape package.
I have made a video which illustrates the difference between the two.
Video
This is just basic usage but it should be enough to get started.
Links
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#Writing,#LaTeX,#Overleaf,#pdflscape,'#lscape,#Portrait,#Landscape#PageOrientation
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EdX LaTeX course
I have signed up to the LaTeX course IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists [1] on the EdX website [2]. I have provided a link to university of Bombay for reference [3]
Looking at the course learning outcomes, I seem to know quite a lot already, however I need to improve how I organise and layout documents.
A while back I undertook an experiment on Acidity of Seawater and how this can be changed with eggshells. I want to go back to the write-up and make it look a much more professional, which I should be able to do with the help of this course.
Post for here
References
- IITBombayX: LaTeX for Students, Engineers, and Scientists
- EdX
- IITBombayX
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#Course,#LaTeX,#Writing,#Learning
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TeX Live 2023
TeX Live 2023 is should now be available. This is the latest release of the popular LaTeX typesetting system, software, related software, packages, documentation and other related materials and components.
Please give it a day or so, so that mirrors can be populated etc.
Writing
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#TeXLive,#LaTeX,#Release,#Writing,#CTAN
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How to write your homework using LaTeX
This is another video on using LaTeX to write documents. Should be useful or interesting to anyone using or considering switching.
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Typesetting Math multiplication
There are several different ways to express multiplication in Mathematics. As \LaTeX is (or can be) used to typeset mathematical and scientific expressions. The following may be useful.
In general we use the $\ce{\times}$ symbol to express multiplication, for example 12 $\ce{\times}$ 6
This can be type set using
12 $\ce{\times}$ 6
However it may also be expressed with * in which case we just use
12 * 6
In algebra, this can be expressed as:
AB
Where A is 12 and B is 6
However you may come across the use of a dot
12 $\ce{\cdot}$ 6
In which case we use
12 $\ce{\cdot}$ 6
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#LaTeX,#TypeSetting,#Maths,#Science,#Notation
This could be useful for typesetting the notation we used in the November stem group meeting for determining the speed of light
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