Category: TeX
Texinfo manuals on A4 paper
Add these three commands in the appropriate .texi file after @end titlepage. The first command selects A4 paper with better margins than the @afourpaper command. The second command turns on page headers suitable for two-sided printing (duplex printing). The third command starts the next chapter on an odd page number.
Read More → Texinfo manuals on A4 paperTeX Live 2015 on FreeBSD
Revision 392534 of the FreeBSD ports tree added TeX Live 2015. In the process, print/texlive-infra was replaced with print/texlive-tlmgr. If you already have TeX Live 2014 installed, e.g. print/texlive-full, then print/texlive-base conflicts with print/texlive-texmf and vice versa.
Read More → TeX Live 2015 on FreeBSD\goodlinebreak in TeX and LaTeX
I am in great need of keeping long words set in teletype fonts on the same line of output in both TeX and LaTeX documents. Neither TeX nor LaTeX breaks the line ahead of teletype text when horizontal boxes overflow. The command \allowbreak exists in Plain TeX, and maybe it even existed in Basic TeX […]
Read More → \goodlinebreak in TeX and LaTeXSolving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathsea
The 20141214 entry in ports/head/UPDATING says: 20141214: AFFECTS: users of TeXLive AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org Several scripts in print/texlive-base have been moved to devel/tex-kpathsea. Upgrading them can fail because texlive-base depends on tex-kpathsea, and the new ex-kpathsea tries to install files which were installed by the old texlive-base. The following error message indicates this situation: pkg-static: tex-kpathsea-6.2.0_1 […]
Read More → Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathseaBursdagskalender med plain TeX
Det hender at jeg bruker plain TeX, selv om favoritten er og blir LaTeX. For noen år siden lagde jeg en bursdagskalender som regner ut hvor gamle folk blir. Under finner du et sensurert eksempel. Du kan sniktitte på denne PDF-fila dersom du lurer på hvordan en slik kalender kan se ut.
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