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Looking for minute changes in PDF files

Kaveh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:59:24 +0000

Suppose you have two PDF files which are supposed to be identical, but have a suspicion that there is a minute difference, e.g. one word has been hyphenated. Here is our TeX package that will help find that change by simply superimposing pairs of pages, allowing for a quick visual check. The package is yours for free to download and use.

Geeky innards of TeX4ht

Kaveh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 03:34:13 +0000

For some 10 years we have been trying to convince the world, including our competitors, to use TeX in their workflow. Now we want to encourage them further, by releasing some of the magic behind our system. In particular, here is some uber-geeky stuff on how to use TeX4ht to get clean complex XML out of a LaTeX file.

TeX dbi

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:15:38 +0000

TeXdbi enables TeX to talk to SQL compliant database engines and generate beautiful reports.

LaTeX for Malayalam

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:56:40 +0000

LaTeX packages, pre-processor binaries and sources, fonts, TFMs etc., that are required to typeset Malayalam, the language spoken by 30 million people of south Indian state of Kerala.

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Parano

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:52:33 +0000

Parano package helps to add paragraph numbering.

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Table

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:07:57 +0000

This package provides the following:

include a landscape table as a float.
format the caption exactly to the width of the table.
some other hooks that would add a little extra vertical space around horizontal rules in the tabular.

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Bibcheck

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:04:58 +0000

LaTeX provides enough hooks to find out the wrongly cited or missed references. But it is difficult to find out an uncited bibliographic item in the body text while it is listed in the refrence list of your document. Bibcheck package helps you to find this out.

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Nomenclature

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:01:38 +0000

How often did you try to understand a theorem in a book, but just couldn’t figure out what all those strange symbols were all about? The nomencl package should help authors format a nomenclature. It uses the powerful capabilities of the MakeIndex program to generate such a list automatically using information provided by the author throughout the text.

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Paralist

Kaveh — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:59:39 +0000

This style file provides some new list environments. Itemized and enumerated lists can be typesetted within paragraphs, as paragraphs and in a compact version. Most environments have optional arguments to format the labels. Additionally, the LaTeX environments itemize and enumerate can be extended to use a similar optional argument.

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