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Category: Tex

Various Tikz

Latex and Tikz allows to programmatically create beautiful documents, presentantions and graphics. Their documentation is clear but so extensive that one search the net for quick hacks, most often ending on Stack Exchange. Here’s some of the hints I found useful https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/217953/tikz-objects-drawing https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/415548/quotes-with-tikz https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63560/how-to-use-x-coordinate-of-a-point-and-y-coordinate-of-other-point#63562

KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

 KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web Type an expression: f(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty<br /> \hat f(\xi)\,e^{2 \pi i \xi x}<br /> \,d\xi See how it renders with KaTeX\KaTeXKATEX: f(x)=∫−∞∞f^(ξ)e2πiξxdξf(x) = \int_{-\infty}^\infty \hat f(\xi)\,e^{2 \pi i \xi x} \,d\xif(x)=∫​−∞​∞​​​f​^​​(ξ)e​2πiξx​​dξ Simple API, no dependencies – yet super-fast on all major browsers. Math typesetting on…

Like a lined notebook?

Well, I really want to make my next LaTeX notes looking like this! From templates – How to use Latex to print a document to look like a lined notebook? – TeX – LaTeX Stack Exchange Well, actually I want it with a squared, checkered background, like paper sheets used in booklets

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Oh, what a joy discovering that TexLive packages in CentOS 7 are bugged or crippled beyond any reasonable amount!

Furthermore TeXlive in distros like CentOS 7 is crippled since they don’t offer the TeXlive Manager called tlmgr. So updating packages is a pain, since it has to be done manually, which is far from being trouble-free — newer versions of LaTeX packages could depend on newer versions of other LaTeX packages and so on and so on.And at last, TeXlive is just a snapshot of CTAN, at least regarding LaTeX packages and lots of other stuff. So having a possibility to update sounds like a very good idea to me.So as conclusion: Just forget the TeXlive packages from CentOS 7. Install the regular TeXlive. [5] As prerequisites you need to install the CentOS packages “perl-Tk” and “perl-Digest-MD5”, afterwards the installation should be pain-free

From: [RESOLVED] missing texlive files in Centos 7? – CentOS

Quite frankly I consider quite a failure to rely on the TexLive specific installer

pst-stru

pst-stru from GIUSEPPE MATARAZZO deserve some attention since it allow to draw parametric diagrams! As far as I can say no other structure plotting offer this feature. It’s quite sad that it only works only on PostScript as “modern” Tex versions tends to work on PDF.