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I recently started Chess again, so I wanted to typeset some chessboards. With the chessboard package by Ulrike Fischer this is pretty much straight forward. Here’s a 2-page example what the package can do. It can do much more, I’ll post additional examples if I find some time.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[left=1cm,right=1cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{chessboard,xskak}
\usepackage{graphicx,booktabs}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\begin{document}\centering
 
\scalebox{2}{\chessboard[setpieces={Ne4,Ka1,ka2}]}
 
\scalebox{2}{%
\setchessboard{showmover=false}
\newchessgame
\chessboard}
 
\scalebox{2}{%
\setchessboard{showmover=true}
\chessboard[setpieces={Ka1,ka2,Rb1,rb2,Nc1,nc2,Qd1,qd2,Be1,be2,Pf1,pf2,Qd3},
    pgfstyle=straightmove,
    arrow=stealth,
    linewidth=.25ex,
    padding=1ex,
    color=red!75!white,
    pgfstyle=straightmove,
    shortenstart=1ex,
    showmover=true,
    markmoves={d3-h7,d3-a6,d3-b1,d3-f1,d3-d8,d3-d1,d3-a3,d3-h3}]
}
 
Capital letters for white, small letters for black.
 
\begin{tabular}{cll} \toprule
Letter & English & German \\ \midrule
K & King & König \\
Q & Queen & Dame \\
R & Rook & Turm \\
N & Knight & Pferd \\
B & Bishop & Läufer \\
P & Pawn & Bauer \\ \bottomrule
\end{tabular}
 
\end{document}

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Here’s a simple example for the exsheets/tasks packages, taken from the tasks Documentation.

\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl}
 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{tasks}
\usepackage{exsheets}
 
\begin{document}
 
\settasks{
counter-format = qu.tsk,
item-indent = 2em,
label-width = 2em,
label-offset = 0pt
}
 
\begin{question}[type=exam]{4}
I have these two tasks for you. Shall we begin?
\begin{tasks}(2)
\task The first task: easy!
\task The second task: even more so!
\end{tasks}
\end{question}
 
\begin{solution}[print]
Now, let's see\ldots\ ah, yes:
\begin{tasks}
\task This is the first solution. Told you it was easy.
\task This is the second solution. And of course you knew that!
\end{tasks}
\end{solution}
 
\end{document}

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Whenever I have to put something on an arbitrary position on a page, I like to use the eso-pic package. Here’s a short example how it works:

\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrreprt}
 
\usepackage{eso-pic,rotating,graphicx}
\usepackage{blindtext}
 
\author{John Doe}
\title{Some Thesis}
 
\begin{document}
 
\AddToShipoutPicture*{\put(200,200){\rotatebox{45}{\scalebox{3}{Examiners copy}}}}
\maketitle
 
\blindtext
 
\end{document}
 
<a href="http://uweziegenhagen.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/eso.png"><img src="http://uweziegenhagen.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/eso.png" alt="eso" width="491" height="711" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2915" /></a>

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Here is a short piece of code that shows how the set document language may be evaluated during the LaTeX run. Credit goes to Heiko Oberdiek for his nice iflang package.

\documentclass[english]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel,iflang}
\newcommand{\tr}[2]{\IfLanguageName{ngerman}{#1}{#2}}
 
\begin{document}
 
\tr{Deutscher Text}{English text}
 
\end{document}

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ifthen.sty allows the definition of various interesting constructs to control, which parts of a document are printed. Here’s a short example for the use of boolean variables:

\documentclass{minimal}
 
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newboolean{somevariable}
\setboolean{somevariable}{false}
 
\begin{document}
 
\ifthenelse{\boolean{somevariable}}{Text if somevariable is true.}{Text if somevariable is false.}
 
\end{document}

ifthen (PDF)

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Here’s a small example how to typeset conditional text. There may be other solutions available (see etoolbox or use LuaTeX), however I like ifthen.sty

\documentclass{minimal}
 
\usepackage{ifthen}
\newboolean{somevariable}
\setboolean{somevariable}{false}
 
\begin{document}
 
\ifthenelse{\boolean{somevariable}}{Text if somevariable is true.}{Text if somevariable is false.}
 
\end{document}

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I’d like to maintain one of my presentation in German as well as in English without having to deal with multiple documents. As I use babel anyway, I of course want to use the language defined for it.

I asked in TSX and egreg came up with the perfect solution, Heiko Oberdiek’s iflang package.

\documentclass[ngerman]{scrartcl}
\usepackage{babel,iflang}
\newcommand{\tr}[2]{\IfLanguageName{ngerman}{#1}{#2}}
 
\begin{document}
 
\tr{Deutscher Text}{English text}
 
\end{document}

This solution works well, in the case of five or ten languages I’d probably use a template engine.

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These are the German slides for my presentation at the 2013 Gießen German TeX Users Conference. It shows examples for the following packages.

PDF, German

• arara
• censor
• menukeys
• ocgx
• progressbar
• pgfgantt
• romanbar
• parnotes
• smartdiagram
• tikzsymbols

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Here a simple example to illustrate the workflow with biblatex and biber (on TeX Live 2012). It also prints a second bibliography just for the books (one in this case)

literaturvz.bib contains:

@Article{lit1,
author = {Nabuurs, S.B. and Spronk, C.A.E.M.},
title = {Biomolecular Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy Allows for Major Errors},
year ={2006},
volume = {2},
journal = {PLoS Comput. Biology}}

@Manual{gaussian,
author = {M.J. Frisch and G.W. Trucks and H.B. Schlegel and G.E. Scuseria and M.A. Robb and J.R. Cheeseman and J.A. Montgomery Jr. and T. Vreven and K.N. Kudin and J.C. Burant and J.M. Millam and S.S. Iyengar and J. Tomasi and V. Barone and B. Mennucci and M. Cossi and G. Scalmani and N. Rega and G.A. Petersson and H. Nakatsuji and M. Hada and M. Ehara and K. Toyota and R. Fukuda and J. Hasegawa and M. Ishida and T. Nakajima and Y. Honda and O. Kitao and H. Nakai and M. Klene and X. Li and J.E. Knox and H.P. Hratchian and J.B. Cross and C. Adamo and J. Jaramillo and R. Gomperts and R.E. Stratmann and O. Yazyev and A.J. Austin and R. Cammi and C. Pomelli and J.W. Ochterski and P.Y. Ayala and K. Morokuma and G.A. Voth and P. Salvador and J.J. Dannenberg and V.G. Zakrzewski and S. Dapprich and A.D. Daniels and M.C. Strain and O. Farkas and D.K. Malick and A.D. Rabuck and K. Raghavachari and J.B. Foresman and J.V. Ortiz and Q. Cui and A.G. Baboul and S. Clifford and J. Cioslowski and B.B. Stefanov and G. Liu and A. Liashenko and P. Piskorz and I. Komaromi and R.L. Martin and D.J. Fox and T. Keith and M.A. Al-Laham and C.Y. Peng and A. Nanayakkara and M. Challacombe and P.M.W. Gill and B. Johnson and W. Chen and M.W. Wong and C. Gonzalez and J.A. Pople},
title ={Gaussian 03, Revison C.02},
year = {Gaussian, Inc., Wallingford CT, USA, 2004}}


The TeX document (filename is biblatex-test-biber.tex) contains:

\documentclass[11pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[german]{babel}

%\usepackage[style=authortitle-dw,backend=bibtex8]{biblatex}%authortitle-icomp
\usepackage[style=authortitle-icomp,backend=biber]{biblatex}%
\usepackage[babel,german=quotes]{csquotes}%guillemets

\addbibresource{literaturvz.bib}

\begin{document}

\cite{weinhold}

\clearpage

\parencite{weinhold}

\clearpage

\footcite[12]{weinhold}

\clearpage

\smartcite[12, smart]{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citeauthor{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citetitle{weinhold}

\clearpage

\citeyear{weinhold}

\nocite{*}

\printbibliography 

\printbibliography[title={Book references},type=book]

\end{document}

To create the final PDF run:

1. pdflatex biblatex-test-biber
2. biber biblatex-test-biber
3. pdflatex biblatex-test-biber

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Translators and correctors are usually paid on the number of standard pages, commonly having 60 characters per line and 30 lines per page. The stdpage package helps you generate those normpages. Here is a short example for the use of this package:

\documentclass[12pt,ngerman]{scrartcl}
 
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}
 
\usepackage{stdpage}
 
\begin{document}
 
\blindtext[5]
 
\end{document}

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