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Hi Stefan,

Guilty on all three counts. Hope you enjoyed them.

All three books were composed in LyX. The novels came out okay, but Built It code listings were an eyesore. So, LaTeX consultant Kathyrn Hargreaves transferred the source to a LaTeX editor and cleaned up the code boxes. I was determined ...

Hello,

Please help me find the best-of-best LaTeX tutorials, how-tos, and packages related to every aspect of book publishing.

I’m currently working with Karl Berry and others to develop a website devoted to LaTeX application in book publishing—fiction, nonfiction, technical, and academic. We’re ...

Hello,

As a writer/indie publisher I jumped for joy when I discovered the LaTeX markdown package. So I decided to write a how-to book for other indie publishers to help them write more typographically beautiful books with markdown efficiency. Spent six intense months and money on tech consulting, a ...

Hello,

I’m styling a book using the memoir document class. Please show me how to specify fonts.

I’ve scoured the user manual, but it totally eludes me. Somewhere on the web I read that fontspec is incompatible with memoir. Is the true?

Many thanks,

LRP

Thank you!

Upgrading to Ubuntu 20.04 did the trick---now tables work fine. Still some issues, however. But I'll ask about these in future posts.

I would like to thank Vít Novotný personally for his wonderful package, but here doesn't seem to a way to do so.

All the best,

LRP

Hello,

I'm running:
$ tex --version
TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.2.3
on
Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS

I'm striving to use the markdown package:
http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/CTAN/macros/generic/markdown/markdown.html

The User Manual says:

The package requires a working TeX ...

Hello,

New to tcolorbox and struggling.

Thanks to help from Paul Rubin I've defined a color box for displaying computer code as follows:

New Color Box Type cBoxA2colback=gray!25!white, colbacktitle=black, colframe=black!75!black,fonttitle=\bfseries, title=\listno\,comment, width=\textwidth

It ...