Hi Johannes

Hi @ManuelKuehner

Deutsch?

@ManuelKuehner Yes, but other user may be interested in the topic as well.

Ok. So I am not so active in LaTeX anymore since I work now. But I often supervise students and help friends.

So I want to give advice that is up to date if you know what I mean.

@ManuelKuehner Why are you collecting best-practice packages?

Ah

For exampel I didn't know of the inputenx package

@ManuelKuehner KOMA and memoir are widely used. Both require knowledge of their own set of macros and packages.

And if that's what one should use nowadays then I want to know :)

Yes. That's a problem for beginners. I see that too.

Same for bibtex and biblatex. In my university everybody was using bibtex and I was the only one using biblatex thanks to you guys

@ManuelKuehner Using the modern engines XeTeX or LuaTeX, you don't have to care about inputencoding. Alsmost every editor nowadays defaults to utf8.

@ManuelKuehner Manny journals still require BibTeX-compatible bibliographies. Never change a running system.

Maybe. But LaTeX is widely used and I think LuaTeX is not stable yet?!

@ManuelKuehner Somebody has to introduce the modern stuff.

My intention is to use LaTeX because there are many good book that I can recommend students.

@ManuelKuehner Stable enough. XeTeX is somewhere over version 0.99.

BibTeX never made version 1.

@ManuelKuehner There are also books one cannot recommend at all.

golatex.de/latex-fuer-dummies-t2896.html

I do not want to argue. Is's just a opinion. And in my experience LaTeX is at the moment the best compromise between functionality and documentation status :). So my question is very open - what do the best LaTeX users use and I will look into the details and recommend some of the stuff to people I know.

I know. I have a lot of book here in my room

I made an extensive LaTeX introduction and reviewed a lot of books.

bipede.de/Downloads/LaTeX-Kurs/Kurs-Folien_2011-11-17.pdf

Good idea

Not sure if he will consider helping

Haha: \section{\textsl{Geneigte Überschrift}}

@ManuelKuehner How long did you talk?

I am just typing

Or what do you mean?

The LaTeX introduction?

@ManuelKuehner Use the mouse and hover over my last post, it will show the reference point ;-)

about 5 hours inc. practice sessions

Ahhh. Great feature

@ManuelKuehner A friend of mine was giving an introduction: suedraum.de/latex/workshop_fsr4

Thanks. Looks very new. I will look into it and promote it if I like it.

I just scrolled through the presentation. Impressive

So. I will leave for the gym now. Rainy day in my town ;(

@ManuelKuehner Three hours, planned were 90 minutes

@ManuelKuehner Here too, have fun.

I can imagine that

Thanks for the time and attention

see you later maybe

Just checked, i didn't mention stuff like \textbf{} in my introductions. Please have a look at latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=88956#p88956