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@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-03 09:35:45

For some reason it is ridiculously hard to just ignore any first or given names with #BibLaTeX. Like any sane person, I'd like to only see surnames in the citations, authoryear style. BibLaTeX really doesn't want you to.
#TeXLaTeX

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-03 11:57:48

If you #selfHost your own 🍃 #Overleaf, make sure to host a couple extra individual instances you can fall back to, because it will rate-limit your own compilation and lock you out when you least need it 😑
#TeXLaTeX

@tomkalei@machteburch.social
2025-10-02 09:15:43

We need to talk about "x_i to the power j". Which ones do you like?
#texlatex

@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-17 16:40:14

Once you are done fighting it, documents typeset with #TexLaTeX are pretty damn rad! 🚀
The automations you can put into place to help you focus on the actual writing are really something else:
- different modes for notes, submission, and publishing
- acronym or physical unit expansion only upon first mention
- auto-generated glossary or symbol list
- and of course a ton…

screencast of Zotero PDF viewer with a page of my WIP dissertation open (the topic is quantifying natural CO2 emissions at the Starzach site). The mouse hovers over different elements of the text, each time a popup shows the portion of the linked page, with a little red dot pointing at exactly the referenced element. In this document, this works for physical quantities (e.g. ρCO2 [kg/m³], which pops up the relevant section of the List of symbols), acronyms (e.g. CO2, which pops up part of the g…
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.org
2025-09-08 13:10:06

Beginning to lose my mind again about #TeXLaTeX #BibLaTeX #BibTeX #Zotero fuckery. 😩
Zotero puts the &quot…