Robin Fairbairns has released a new version of the famous UK TeX FAQ. v3.19 is containing 10 new answers to frequently asked questions and many answers have been revised.

The Inconsolata font package has been released on CTAN yesterday. Inconsolata is a monospaced (”typewriter”) font designed for code listings and the like by Raph Levien. It’s supporting several encodings including T1, OT1 and LY1. The font can be used by loading inconsolata.sty. The package provides a font scaling option [scaled=X] and would redefine the typewriter [...]

The German LaTeX forum goLaTeX.de has been inaccessible since one week, from May 28 on. Today it’s available again, at last. There was a technical problem that the provider didn’t solve quickly. The forum will stay alive.

In standard tabular environments multicolumn headings will be aligned to the left when they are wider then the text below, even if they contain a “c” as format parameter. Here’s a very small demonstration example: documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article} usepackage{eurosym} begin{document} begin{tabular}{r@{.}l} multicolumn{2}{c}{Price in euro} \ hline 79 & 50 \ 9 & 85 \ 10 & 00 end{tabular} end{document} Output: The [...]