(La)TeX Usergroup Berlin Treffen 14. Februar, diesmal mit Präsi über einfache Struktur für Bachelor/Masterarbeit mit Literaturverzeichnis und Visual Studio Code für LaTeX, sowie git als Versionskontrollsystem: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Berliner-Usergroup-TeXLaTeX/
English: (La)TeX Usergroup Berlin meeting Feb 14, this time with talk about simple structure for bachelor/master thesis with bibliography and visual studio code for LaTeX, plus git as version control system.
The iX recently published a LaTeX tutorial. Quick reviews are on
At this occasion, some recent and older articles from heise and iX, in German:
Why do I mention it? Because it’s interesting to read about TeX and LaTeX in general IT media, and comments by IT people can be quite entertaining, such as the usual rants of guys who used LaTeX fifteen or more years ago and still complain about old stuff without having seen how it developed in the meantime.
A declaration of love to the em dash: Regarding the Em Dash.
And a discussion on using the em dash and other punctuation, also considering TeX: on Hacker News.
The Short Math Guide for LaTeX is now available on CTAN. It has been significantly updated, contains more up-to-date information and additional notes such as about discouraged syntax and new recommendations. From 17 pages it grew to 21 pages. Furthermore, the source code of the document is now available. It covers all math basics and is a very efficient guide for the smart reader.
Here you can find it: https://ctan.org/pkg/short-math-guide
Besides the TeX Live Manager, there’s now a new handy tool: the TeX Live Cockpit.
A DANTE / LaTeX team will organize a tent village with workshops at the SHA hackers camp in the Netherlands next week, 4th to 8th August 2017.
Blog posts:
Wohoo! TeX Live 2017 has been released! Quick release info in
And of cause on the TeX Live homepage. Have fun!
Currently, the DESY in Zeuthen near Berlin hosts the DANTE 2017 meeting of the German speaking TeX users group DANTE.
Blog posts:
The rates for electronic membership (TUGboat and TeX software online, no paper/DVD) decreased: it’s now $15 for students, seniors and TeX friends from countries with modest economies, and $45 for regular (electronic) membership, both early bird until March 31, 2017.
By joining now, you can directly be part of and support the TUG TeX activities. You know,
What do you think? Like to comment here, or on my blog post?
It’s all up to us: http://tug.org/join.html
From time to time it is necessary to manually correct the spacing between two letters, i.e. to add some extra kerning. The macro to add this kind of horizontal space is \kern followed by the amount of spacing Since it is a TeX primitive the “argument” must not be in braces and the trailing space is optional.
Example
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\documentclass{scrartcl} \begin{document} Word W\kern-0.14em ord \end{document} |
The following image shows the result: The upper line uses the natural kerning with too much space between letters W and o and the lower line shows the manually correction.
It is suitable to use a font-size-relative length unit like em.
Of course this would be lot of work to do but it is a good idea to at least do it for titles, headlines and such. Furthermore there are typefaces/fonts requiring more corrections than others …