A couple of days ago we released the new Alpha 2 of Version 6.0 with many bug fixes and some fancy new things.
We improved the onboarding experience for new users, improved #CSL support in LibreOffice and for the #TexLaTeX users we now have support for analyzing blg files in the integrity check.
More info in our blog post: https://blog.jabref.org/2025/05/06/JabRef6-0-alpha2/
Nun sind all meine latex-Probleme mit Das Erwachen der Grottenschrate endlich gelöst. In der automatischen DE-Übersetzung sind im Inhaltsverzeichnis Kap. und Anhang nicht eingedeutscht worden. Außerdem waren die Fußnoten zwischen Inhaltsverzeichnis und Kapitel 1 nicht korrekt.
Ich weiß, Kleinigkeiten. Trotzdem, neue Versionen von https://www.dmsguild.com/product/456906 jetzt verfügbar.
From #CTAN:
Oliver Beery submitted an update to the fontscale package.
Version: 4.2.0 2025-04-30
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A flexible interface for setting font sizes
The long weekend in Germany gave me opportunity to do some minor latex improvements of my #dmsguild things. First update is the Fey'ri species, now with fixed page numbers, both for the 2014 and 2024 rules version
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/446748
#dnd #texlatex
@timpritlove
Danke, alles prima. (Was ist dieses „Pointer?)
Aber Deine Dokumentation könnte ich mal schön machen …. 
#TeXLaTeX
EDIT: now solved! It was a \makeatletter without a matching \makeatother.
well, I give up!
At least, I'm going to stop for lunch.
I've put a minimal example document with the error on my blog: https://checkmyworking.com/posts/2025/04/help-me-work-out-whats-wrong-with-this-latex/
Any help will be gladly received!
Debugging a #TeXLaTeX problem. The author is doing something complicated with titletoc and using tikz to draw a little table of contents at the start of each chapter.
For some reason, an itemize environment is making it throw a wobbler.
... except when I remove the \flushleft from before the \printcontents command that makes the mini TOC.
I don't understand any of this and I'm so confused.
I might have to stop writing #TexLatex packages -- I'm running out of distinguishable colours for the docs :)
Little update of the the perfectionist. I published Bugbear Awakening in Dec. 2022. I made it using Latex and am very happy with the approach. There were a few things I could not solve at that time and finally I found fixes. Here the problem was that the cover page was a separate file that was then merged which messed up where the page numbers are (they should be on the "outside" ). Just updated the Bugbear Awakening PDF where this issue is fixed.
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/419321
#ttrpg #dnd #texlatex
From #CTAN:
Paul Gaborit submitted the beamer-theme-albi package.
Version: 1.5
License: lppl1.3
Summary description: The Albi beamer theme
Two rounds of review for this manuscript. I hope we don't go to a third because my #TeXLaTeX skills don't stretch to making another layer of indentation for the rebuttal letter.
#WritersCoffeeClub 6. Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later?
My writing and editing process is:
1. Write the first draft of my translation on my e-ink tablet. This will have quite a few mistakes, and I often don't bother to look up some of the more complex words.
2. Do a first round of editing on my desktop PC at least one day later. I try to get this cleaned up as much as possible.
3. Proofread the text on my _other_ e-ink tablet, at least one day after Step 2. Correct any mistakes and improve anything else I can find. Schedule this text for my Patreon page.
4. Some time later, typeset the text with #TeXLaTeX . I will usually find a few problems at this stage as well, which I will correct.
5. _Much_ later, I will assemble individual translations into a larger book, which will get _three_ further rounds of proofreading (two by me, one by a copywriter) as well as feedback from alpha and beta readers.
In other words, editing is a continual process that accompanies all other steps of writing.
Yet I _still_ have accumulated a bunch of errata which I want to include in future printings...
[1/3] #DANTE2025 Friday starts with “Storytelling with Frank [Mittelbach]”. He admits that it took a while for himself to realize how bad we treated users relying on assisting technology like screen readers! He tries to give a rough overview of this impression by playing screen reader recordings of an untagged document compared to the work the tagging-project did so far. The examples can be found at https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/documentation/wtpdf/fulldoc
Afterwards Erik Braun roughly explained the technical infrastructure and changes of last year to cleanup the historically grown server blob. A lot of stuff was improved but there still is a lot of work left and #CTAN is once again asking for volunteers.
So in case you have too much free time or always wanted to clean up, automate or document old infrastructure… You are welcome to join them!
(And I always offer cookies when uploading a package update… you can take those!)
#DANTE2025 is starting at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.
Mr. Lion and me are extremly curious about discussions and expecting a boost concerning tagging and accesibility of #TeXLaTeX.
We already realized yesterday, that there is too little time for all the projects we are working on… but … we are all trying our best.
I will try to sum up the talks below this.
EN in first answer.
Die #DANTE2025 startet an der Hochschule Darmstadt.
Der Löwe und ich sind startklar gespannt auf die Diskussionen. Vermutlich wieder viel zu tagging und Barrierefreiheit.
Gestern beim Vorabendtreff haben wir schon festgestellt, dass alle hier noch viel zu viel Dinge getan haben wollten… aber leider hat der Tag nur 24h … aber wir bleiben dran.
Unter diesem Toot versuche ich wieder etwas die Vorträge zusammenzufassen.
Can any #TeXLaTeX experts explain to me why `\renewcommand{\> }{\rangle}` doesn't work in pdflatex, but `\renewcommand{\>}{\rangle}` does? (The working version has no space after `\>`)
Easily my favourite April 1st paper this year.
Brave and terrifying. #TeXLaTeX #arxiv
paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.24187
homepage: https://neuralatex.com/
