March News Update : TeX Live 2019 & Intro to LuaTeX Part 2
Kate · March 10, 2020
TeX Live 2019 Update
TeX Live 2019 is now available! Following swiftly on from our upgrade to TeX Live 2018 in September last year, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve now upgraded our LaTeX compile servers to make TeX Live 2019 available. In our TeX Live 2019 blog you’ll find some notes on important changes in TeX Live 2019 together with some observations based on our own testing.
An Intro To LuaTeX Part 2
Have you ever wondered about LuaTeX or wanted to learn more about it? We previously shared the first part of an informative article titled An Introduction to LuaTeX (Part 1) : What is it - and what makes it so different?
In this article we reviewed LuaTeX as an extremely versatile TeX engine: a sophisticated, programmable, typesetting system which provides a wide range of tools for constructing document engineering and production solutions.
We are now happy to release the concluding installment, where we take a close look at the most vital component of the LuaTeX toolbox: the \directlua command. This command provides the gateway to programmatic control of LuaTeX's typesetting through the Lua scripting language.
Read the full article: An Introduction to LuaTeX Part 2: Understanding \directlua
Resources
We’re always interested in the topics you find most useful in working on Overleaf, whether they be help articles on a particular LaTeX topic, one of our how-to guides to using Overleaf, or a particular template you always come back to!
Here are some of the highlights that have proven popular over recent months:
Getting started with LaTeX:
Using Overleaf:
Popular template collections:
You can find more useful help files in our learn wiki! If you have a particular guide or template that you always seem to use, and would like to recommend it to others, do let us know!
Save The Date
ECEDHA 2020 - 18-21 March
We’ll be at booth 209 during the 2020 ECEDHA Annual Conference and ECExpo on 18-21 March in Orlando, Florida, United States.
UKSG 30 March - 1 April
We'll be at stand 58 throughout the UKSG 43rd Annual Conference and Exhibition on 30 March to 1 April in Brighton, United Kingdom.
If you’re going to either of these events and would like to book in for a one-to-one chat with our team please contact us - alternatively just pop by our stand and say hi - we'd love to hear from you!