Setting up CID fonts for Ghostscript – technical notes
While working on the into Ghostscript, we had to navigate a lot of unclear waters, at least unclear to me. While there are some pages describing the final setup, the reasons for that was...
100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
Exactly 100 years ago the first genocide of the 20th century started: The Armenian Genocide at the hands of the Turks. The Ottoman empire, the predecessor of Turkey, ordered the deportation and execution of...
Murakami Haruki’s answer on atomic energy
The well known writer Haruki Murakami (村上春樹) – I have blogged about several of his books – also provides some kind of counseling service. He is running his advice page 村上さんのところ. The readers can...
PiwigoPress release 2.29
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release incorporates lots of security related fixes by Rüdiger Schulz, bit thanks to him. PiwigoPress supported from...
Plex Home Theater 1.3.7 Debian
Update 2015-05-04: 1.3.7 is gone from the repository, and locations have changed depending on sid or jessie in use, please see for Version 1.4.0. Recently Plex Plex Home Theater was updated to 1.3.7 fixing...
git bisect – bug hunting made easy
While developing the script to integrate , we found a strange discrepancy between different versions of GhostScript. With the Yu fonts as distributed with OSX, newer versions of GhostScript crash, while my relatively old...
PiwigoPress release 2.28
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release fixes a long open bug. Some time ago I added the feature to download images from...
Setting up CJK fonts for GhostScript
After long discussions on the MacTeX mailing list, and thanks to much work of many contributors, I can finally announce the CJK font integration script for GhostScript. While far from perfect, especially because GhostScript...
TeX Live: the new multi fmtutil
Some time ago I posted a few articles on internals of TeX Live, which might be of interest for the general user, too: and . With and the pretest for 2015 about to start,...
TeX Live 2014 frozen – pretest starting soon
So there we are, each year around April TeX Live gets frozen. Today’s update was the last of TeX Live 2014. From now on we concentrate on updating binaries and packaging in preparation for...
Managing slides and handouts in LaTeX
Now that my teaching season has started, I need to produce slides and handouts for lots of lectures. For saving paper I print the handouts in 2-up, so two slides per page. Till now...
Hitomi Kanehara – Snakes and Earrings
Prized and highly recommended here and there, I finally came around to read Hitomi Kanehara‘s (金原 ひとみ) short novel Snakes and Earrings, which won the Akutagawa prize in 2003, and was made into a...
Impressions from Hawaii, the Big Island
As I am still in Hawaii, I don’t want to spend too much time in front of the computer, so here are only some short impressions from our stay on the Big Island. What...
Slick Google Map 0.2 released
I just have pushed a new version of the Slick Google Map plugin for WordPress to the servers. There are not many changes, but one that has been requested already in the ancestor, the...
Rewriting fmtutil in Perl
TeX Live 2015 is still a few months of, but one of the things I am planning for it is to rewrite fmtutil in Perl, and change its functionality slightly. This follows the rewrite...
Tutorial: Lists in CafeOBJ
I have created a new tutorial for CafeOBJ that will introduce users to functional programming the CafeOBJ way, in particular list processing and programming. We introduce lists, and define functions on them: length, append,...
