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TeX Live, Debian Developer, WordPress, ...
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TeX Live main site, TeX Live Manager
The TeX Live Manager (tlmgr) is the main administration and management program for TeX Live. It comprises several perl modules and the main program, summing up to several thousand of line of code. See the TUG web page dedicated to the TeX Live Manager: http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html
Debian main site, Debian QA page
Maintainer of various TeX related packages, in particular all the TeX Live related packages and supporting packages.
CafeOBJ dedicated page, cafeobj.org
CafeOBJ is a algebraic specification language, in which I have developed several specifications and contribute to the development of the language and interpreter. See the dedicated page for details.
PiwigoPress dedicated page, WordPress Plugin Site, GitHub Devel site
The PiwigoPress plugin for WordPress allows inclusion of photos from any open installation of Piwigo (Photo Manager). See the dedicated page for details.
Slick Google Map dedicated page, WordPress Plugin Site, GitHub Devel site
The WordPress plugin allows inclusion of Google Maps, with markers and KML support, in WordPress blog posts. See the dedicated page for details.
ptex2pdf dedicated page, GitHub Devel site
Converting documents from with various Japanese TeX programs (ptex/uptex/etc) to pdf is not necessarily trivial, and sometimes a dedicated program doing the necessary steps comes in handy, like in the case of TeXworks. The program is included at least in TeX Live. See the dedicated page for details.
tlptexlive dedicated page
Updates to TeX Live targeting users of Japanese. See the dedicate page (in Japanese).
Shotwell main site
I am contributing to Shotwell, a photo organizer for the Gnome Desktop. My contributions are mainly for supporting the Piwigo web album, and comment support.
Recent publications
  • TUG 2013 in Tokyo. TUGboat, 34(3):252-258, 2013.
  • TeX Live Manager’s hidden gems: User mode and multiple repository support. TUGboat, 34(3):293-296, 2013.
  • Redistributing TeX and friends. TUGboat, 34(3):297-301, 2013.
  • TeX Live 2008 and the TeX Live manager. ArsTeXnica, 6:6775, October 2008.
  • TeX (Live) on Debian. TUGboat, 29(1):136139, 2008.
  • TeX Live's new infrastructure. ArsTeXnica, 4:6973, October 2007.
  • TeX Live on Debian. TUGboat, 26(3):241242, 2005.
Recent talks
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  • Distributing TeX and friends: methods, pitfalls, advice. Talk at the TUG 2013, October 2013. Tokyo, Japan.
  • TeX Live Manager's hidden gems: User mode and multiple repository support. Talk at the TUG 2013, October 2013. Tokyo, Japan.
  • Managing diversity - distributing and supporting TeX Live. Talk at the Software Design and Analysis Laboratory Seminar, NAIST, April 2013. Nara, Japan.
  • Distributing TeX and friends. Talk at the FOSDEM 2013, Distribution Miniconf, February 2013. Brussels, Belgium.
  • TeX Live (2012): history, installation, usage, support for Japanese TeX users. Talk at Mathematical Software and Free Documents 15, September 2012. Fukuoka, Japan.
  • Typesetting with Kanji, tutorial on LaTeX, December 2011. Guangzhou, China.
  • TeX Live 2011 and some possible extensions. Talk at Japanese TeX User Group Meeting 2011, October 2011. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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