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Montag, Juli 5th, 2010
I was recently browsing sample PDF pages from a major german, alleged typographically pretentious publisher in the humanities, as I noticed the use of wrong range-dashes and poorly justified paragraphs. Since the PDF was made with 3B2, this finally encouraged me, to compare TeX's abilities on a real-life ...
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Donnerstag, März 11th, 2010
Publishing online BibTeX references is not just matter of converting a .bib
file to XML/HTML. If there is a print (PDF) edition, two very important items
should be the same in both print and online versions:
same entries
same sorting
Further editing of the online references includes for example
abreviation of the author/editor names
inclundig and formatting ...
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Dienstag, Juli 28th, 2009
If you try to \input a non-existing file, you get an error and if in interactive mode, you are prompting to type a new filename. But if you do the same with \include, no error occurs, just a little warning "No file ...". This behaviour, although documented, is sometimes ...
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Dienstag, Juli 28th, 2009
We had to produce a book catalogue from publisher's data. The layout was also predefined. We got a Word file with fields-like data:
#001 Springer, Anne; Münch, Karsten; Munz, Dietrich (Hg.)
#002 Sexualitäten
#003 Eine Publikation der DGPT
#004
#005 Bestellnr.: 854 #006 ISBN 978-3-89806-854-3
#007 2008 #006 455 Seiten #006 Gebunden
#008 ? (D) 39,90
#009 Die ...
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Freitag, Juli 17th, 2009
We had a book to set from a translated original. The index entries were taken also from the first book, translated and put in a list. So, in the first preview of the new book we set the index list as enumerate and asked the lector to mark the text ...
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Sonntag, Oktober 19th, 2008
After describing the publisher's demands on typesetting list entries in a previous article, here comes the TeX-code that does the job. It is really plain TeX, because the whole catalogue is set with ConTeXt, and since I'm not familiar with that package, all my macros had to be done on ...
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