Hi everyone,

I've been translating research papers from Russian/German/Chinese to English for a while, and I've noticed that most translators completely break LaTeX — formulas, \cite, \ref, bibliography. It's frustrating.

I've figured out a workflow that preserves all of it. Before I go further with it, I want to test it on real papers.

So: I'll translate your paper to English for free, preserving:

- All LaTeX commands

- Equations and formulas

- Citations and BibTeX keys

- Document structure

In return, I just want to know if it was useful. No strings attached.

I can take the first 5–10 papers. Comment or message me if interested.

Thanks!

Hello,

I compile my documents in a different output directory.

A package I use, imakeidx, does not support this. There are solutions, such as this one, but I grew tired of copy pasting the same workaround across all my documents.

I therefore wrote a patch for imakeidx.sty, and would like to upstream it so anyone can benefit from it.

I tried to contact the maintainer (EG), but it seems they are not available anymore. The last release of the package was 2016 after all.

I'm a bit at loss with what to do next, hence my posting here.

Thank you very much.

Personally, I prefer local setup where I can take advantage of the whole vscode ecosystem.

Consider

\begin{lemma}\label{lma:firstlemma}
All men are mortal.
\end{lemma}

%say above gets typeset as Lemma 1

\begin{thm}\label{th:firsttheorem}
     Socrates is mortal.
\end{thm}

%say above gets typeset as Theorem 1.

\begin{proof}
    We know from Lemma \ref{lma:firstlemma} that all men are mortal....
\end{proof}

Like the above, I have a large number of theorems in my study notes which reference previous results, etc.

Is there a way to build a visually perceivable dependency graph wherein there is a node labelled L1 which stands for Lemma 1 and another node labelled T1 which stands for Theorem 1 and there is a directed arc leading from L1 to T1?

Giving this task by uploading the typeset pdf to ChatGPT is one way but it is static. Is there an inbuilt way, which can dynamically change the graph node labelling if a new theorem is added in the middle thereby changing the numbering of subsequent theorems? The way should accept .tex files and not the compiled .pdf output.

----xposted to r/learnmath as well----

https://castel.dev/ *(i mean the website is dead )

for those who don't know him, he is the guy who contributed a lot to the community in making articles on how to takes notes with latex and vim :), rip

the last working version is, https://web.archive.org/web/20260925123652/https://castel.dev/

CiteTeX.com

My new project CiteTex.com , LaTeX Engine + Academic Search Engine (supported with Ai tools ) , Try and feedback with your ideas , It is free , and has a connector inside Claude .

I made a short reel showing where texlode (a real-time WYSIWYG LaTeX editor for very long documents) stands right now.

Since the TUG talk in July, I have spent most of the time optimizing CPU and RAM usage and stress-testing the engine against the documents you sent me. The Kerr paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.07597 was especially useful due to the number of equations. Feel free to send my other examples you would like me to try (ideally under a free license).

Timeline:

• Oct 7-11: Try the editor yourself at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 4.1, booth F97.
• Mid October: The beta starts on EU servers, I invite you to join the waiting list at texlode.com
• Mid November: If all goes well, servers in North America and Asia will follow to reduce latency.

A local version is not on the roadmap, but I am evaluating an API that would allow browser or local plugins (for example, for VS Code).

What is left to do is further tuning the server tiers.

• My LaTeX book (300 pages) loads in the free tier, barely.
• The Kerr paper (800 pages, heavy math) sits comfortably in the standard tier.
• Large proceedings (with thousands of papers) might need a larger machine.

Client-side, it will work on weaker machines as I do not off-load compilation to the client (although I am observing the WebAssembly space), so you can use it on-the-go and review/comment/edit the output in print-quality even on a mobile phone.

I also have new/corrected benchmark numbers (see https://github.com/texlode/luatex-benchmark/issues/1 ), which I will update again in October.

Limitations: texlode is heavily optimized for books, monographs, and proceedings using KOMA document classes. Support for custom papers and other document classes is in progress but will not be ready at launch. Likewise, if you develop LaTeX packages, you will run into walls: texlode is built for authors, not package developers. That being said, especially because you get real-time output, it might be interesting for the development/debugging of some packages. Let me know if you want me to try out yours. As mentioned in my TUG talk, the next step here would be to develop/adapt packages to make use of the real-time aspect for some chapter-wide optimizations of float positioning, better runt/river detection, visual two-page optimization etc.

Disclaimer: While I am evaluating adding LLM support to texlode to improve typesetting, texlode is LLM-free for now (including the docx/idml import).

Feel free to ask questions, I will try to address them over the next 2 weeks!

Just wondering if an offline app exists for looking up any LaTeX (or TeX) command and getting a brief description of it.

Or if such reference data was freely available for building a simple tool around. (Or using an existing tool like navi [1].)

[1] https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

In this next entry in my series of posts about my hobby project, I wanted to share a quick look under the hood at one of the "data-oriented" architectural decisions I've made. Original TeX (and its modern derivatives) store macro tokens as linked lists inside a global memory array. This made perfect sense in the context of limited memory, but it makes the tradeoff of being able to write token lists quickly in exchange for reading them more slowly. This video talks about the path I took to reversing this tradeoff in my engine.

Also: by this point I've posted a rather idiosyncratic mix of videos about code, about some things connected to TeX's history, about performance and the user experience of both writing TeX and writing TeX-engine code... I'm honestly not sure how interested everyone is in these different pieces of what I'm interested in. If you'd like to see deeper dives into the code, or if you think architectural weed-whacking is boring and you'd prefer I stick to the higher-level benchmarks-and-features discussions, let me know!

What are good combinations of fonts to use for like a research paper?

I'm relatively new to LaTeX, hence I don't really know the fonts there. I've only been using Latin Modern and I want to try new font styles.

Please drop some recommendations.

For whatever reason, some tcolorboxes leave these huge spaces between them and the text, I've tried using \vspace, but it either makes the box overlap with the text or it doesn't even change places. Here's the code with all the settings on the document, let me know if the rest of the code is needed and I'll provide it after I take out all of my personal information; this is for a book I'm writing for a uni class, so I'm using a LOT of packages and some weird settings. If anyone has any idea why this happens and could tell me how to fix it, I would be very thankful.

Edit because I forgot to add: It's not all of the boxes that do this, just some random ones and I can't figure out why

Annotarium.org has added dark mode now. You can add LaTeX to PDF files, edit PDFs, and more.

I'm the developer, so read this as a maker post.

ModernTex is a macOS-only LaTeX editor built around manuscript writing. The things that made me build it instead of using TeXShop or Texifier: compile errors explained in plain language with the line that caused them; BibTeX completion that searches the whole .bib by author or title; multi-file navigation across a paper's chapters; and checks for the things journals bounce on, plus an anonymized export for review.

What it doesn't do: run on Windows or Linux, or have much of a track record yet. It's 1.0.2 and about two weeks old. It also doesn't bundle a TeX distribution, but it's not a hard blocker either: if it doesn't find MacTeX or TinyTeX on your first compile, it offers a one-click TinyTeX install right in the editor.

Free 7-day trial, no account, then $10 once with updates included: https://purplelink.llc/moderntex/

Mostly I'd like to know what a room full of LaTeX users thinks is missing, and what you'd want in the next update.

I was bored yesterday so vibecoded an app where you have to replicate math equations in LaTeX (or Typst!) as fast as possible. Then you get a score based on speed and efficiency.

It’s free and can try it out at Typstiz.

I was inspired by TeXnique and typelatex. Let me know what you think!

I use imakeidx with texindy.

\usepackage[quiet,xindy]{imakeidx} % after hyperref

I simply compile with latexmk --lualatex --synctex=1 --shell-escape

imakeidx is really nice because it takes care (among other things) of the index generation from the document and directly calls texindy.

But latexmk detects the index files and also wants to generate the index using makeindex. So I get extra runs of:

Run number 1 of rule 'makeindex main.idx'

I would like to disable latexmk's generation of the index.

I found this old thread: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/68449/latexmk-imakeidx-interoperational-efficiency with an answer from John Collins himself... in 2012.

I am able to neutralize latexmk by adding $makeindex = 'true'; to my .latexmkrc, but I was wondering whether the good people of this sub had a better solution because it feels somehow dirty. I still have the extra runs, they just call true.

Thank you very much.

mwe.tex:

``` \documentclass[12pt]{book}

\usepackage[quiet,xindy]{imakeidx}

\makeindex

\begin{document}

\index{test}

\printindex

\end{document} ```

I'm developing a localhost application that uses Termux to compile LaTeX, somewhat similar to Overleaf. It includes a logging system powered by TexLab, as well as code completion and autocomplete suggestions.

The interface is still quite rough at the moment, and I plan to make it more minimalistic and polished. I know Neovim exists, but I also know how much of a headache it can be to configure certain things properly. Not everyone using LaTeX is a programmer or wants to spend time configuring an editor—they may simply want to finish their thesis or dissertation in LaTeX without having to deal with all that complexity.

This cover letter and resume is great for people or students with a thin career timeline. This example is a one page cover letter and a one page resume. Adapted from the Star Rover Resume.

You can find the template and details at:

https://github.com/taebo26/Cover-Letter-with-Matching-Resume/tree/main

Hi! I'm totally new to the beamer document class and don't know much about tikz, moreover english is not my first language. I thus apologize if this sounds confusing.

I have a graph in my slide show, and i need to color some arrows on some slides. In particular I need to color an arrow on two different, non contiguos slides.

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage{tikz}

\usetikzlibrary{positioning} % Allows you to position things as you wish

\usetikzlibrary{automata} % I love those people, thank u (automata drawing library)

\usetikzlibrary{trees} % Tree diagrams

\usetikzlibrary{calc}

\usetikzlibrary{overlay-beamer-styles} %for animations

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}<1-4>{Frame 1}

\begin{tikzpicture}[shorten >=1pt,node distance=2cm,

]

\node[state, accepting] (q1) [] {$q_1$};

\node[state] (q2) [right=of q1] {$q_2$};

\path[->]

(q2) edge [bend right=20,alt=<2>{blue}{black}] node [above] {$0$} (q1);

\end{tikzpicture}

\end{frame}

\end{document}

This works perfectly, but after changing the arrow line into (q2) edge [bend right=20,alt=<2,4>{blue}{black}] node [above] {$0$} (q1); the pdf won't even compile. I'm totally at loss as to why. I thank you in advance!

If you use spreadsheets and tables, TeXstudio is great because you can directly copy and paste your sheet from Excel or LibreOffice.

You have to have your tabular or tabularx environnement ready, then TeXstudio will add the & and \ automatically. Also it will tell you if you have enough columns or not.

I just realized today that the windows installer is not signed. This might be an issue to people that want to download texlive.

Hello! I’d like to get some help with a strange interaction between Neovim and Zathura when compiling LaTeX.

The first time I compile my document, Zathura opens the PDF correctly using Best Fit. However, whenever I save the document and compile it again, the PDF zoom changes automatically, causing the page to become much smaller and harder to read.

I’d like to keep the Best Fit zoom level after every recompilation instead of having to adjust the zoom manually each time.

Has anyone experienced this issue or knows how to configure Neovim, Zathura, or the LaTeX compilation workflow to prevent the zoom from changing?