CSTUG Saturdays
===============

I attended a CSTUG (the Czech-Slovak  TeX User Group) meeting some time
ago. It was on-line for the first  time so it was easy to attend. There
was a  presentation about  the Czech Mathematics  Library [1]  but many
other  interesting  things  were  also  mentioned.  I  was  aware  that
there is  a thing  called the  Overleaf[2] which  is the  on-line LaTeX
editor/compiler. It allows several people  to collaborate on a document
just as other office packages do.  The difference is that this one uses
the LaTeX.  Of course, this is  a paid service (some  $100 for one-year
access with  github storage and  other add-on functions) but  for small
projects there is a limited access.

I think  that it  can be  useful on  devices where  is no  native LaTeX
installation available (various tablets and others). It seems work well
on my Ubuntu Touch  tablet (the BQ M10 FHD one).  There have been other
similar  services  like  the  (La)TeX  on-line  editor  at  the  Mendel
University in  Brno [3]. I  tried to  use the [3]  in the past  but the
original version  (while compatible with  older browsers) was  not very
easy to use and the modern one was not very good on a tablet (both work
well on a desktop but on my desktop I always have the locally installed
LaTeX).

Other interesting  (but not  that positive) news  included informations
about the recent LaTeX core  changes which are not backward-compatible.
You  know,  the  TeX  itself  IS  backward  compatible  but  the  macro
packages (which  the LaTeX is)  are often not.  So there was  change in
implementation in some native  language characters (which made probably
all Czech packages for university theses  invalid - it is already fixed
in these  packages, though) and  change in template reading  which made
even more issues.

I also have  found that many of modern  on-line communication platforms
refuse to ran in the Firefox browser  so I have to use the Chromium for
them (the MS Teams, the Cisco Webex).  I'm glad that this thing runs on
the ppc64le at all...

Written on the Cambridge Z88 because  I needed to make break from using
of so advanced technologies..


References:

[1] https://dml.cz
[2] https://overleaf.com
[3] https://tex.mendelu.cz