LaTeX

LaTeX related.

matlab2tikz v0.0.5 released

Jan 4 2010

The next version v0.0.5 of matlab2tikz has just been released to the wild.

The script has undergone significant changes in large parts and can now deal with more MATLAB® plots than ever. For example, support for zplane plots and frequency response plots has been added. Also, thanks to verbose user input, a number of bugs with existing functionality has been fixed.

New command line options are:

  • silent (boolean, default false): be less verbose with warnings.

BibTeX: How to cite a website

Jun 21 2009

With the increasing importance of the internet for scientific research, need increases for properly citing online resources. Unfortunately, when the main LaTeX citation machinery BibTeX was created, this was not to be forseen; this is why there is to date no canonical way to cite, say, a website. Different workarounds have emerged, using for example some trickery with the @MISC type (see below), but the right way™ hasn’t been found yet.

Auto 1 fonts for LaTeX v0.1 released

Jun 19 2009
The University of Antwerp’s corporate design font is Underware’s Auto. Actually, it ships in three different variants (Auto 1, Auto 2, Auto 3 — how imaginative!), the first of which is used most often in all documents.

The new LCDF typetools and TTF files in LaTeX

Jun 14 2009
For quite some time now, people are generating TeX font metrics out of TTF files to be able to use TrueType fonts from within (La)TeX. Although the developments of pdflatex have brought significant alleviation to this process by making it possible to natively use TTF files, it is still far from straigtforward to actually get a font run with ligatures, kerning, and all the fine points those LaTeX fanboys are after.

matlab2tikz v0.0.4 released

Jun 9 2009
Again, after around three months of development, the next version v0.0.4 of matlab2tikz has been released.

The script has mainly evolved around its user interface and includes many bugfixes and improvements. Support for error bars has been added, custom file encoding is now possible, and quiver plots are handled in a better way.

It is now possible to evoke the script with options, for example 'height' and 'width' to determine the dimensions of the resulting plot.