CSTUG Saturdays
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I attended a CSTUG (the Czech-Slovak TeX User Group) meeting some time
ago. It was on-line for the first time so it was easy to attend. There
was a presentation about the Czech Mathematics Library [1] but many
other interesting things were also mentioned. I was aware that
there is a thing called the Overleaf[2] which is the on-line LaTeX
editor/compiler. It allows several people to collaborate on a document
just as other office packages do. The difference is that this one uses
the LaTeX. Of course, this is a paid service (some $100 for one-year
access with github storage and other add-on functions) but for small
projects there is a limited access.
I think that it can be useful on devices where is no native LaTeX
installation available (various tablets and others). It seems work well
on my Ubuntu Touch tablet (the BQ M10 FHD one). There have been other
similar services like the (La)TeX on-line editor at the Mendel
University in Brno [3]. I tried to use the [3] in the past but the
original version (while compatible with older browsers) was not very
easy to use and the modern one was not very good on a tablet (both work
well on a desktop but on my desktop I always have the locally installed
LaTeX).
Other interesting (but not that positive) news included informations
about the recent LaTeX core changes which are not backward-compatible.
You know, the TeX itself IS backward compatible but the macro
packages (which the LaTeX is) are often not. So there was change in
implementation in some native language characters (which made probably
all Czech packages for university theses invalid - it is already fixed
in these packages, though) and change in template reading which made
even more issues.
I also have found that many of modern on-line communication platforms
refuse to ran in the Firefox browser so I have to use the Chromium for
them (the MS Teams, the Cisco Webex). I'm glad that this thing runs on
the ppc64le at all...
Written on the Cambridge Z88 because I needed to make break from using
of so advanced technologies..
References:
[1]
https://dml.cz
[2]
https://overleaf.com
[3]
https://tex.mendelu.cz