TeX Live 2013 for Debian
I am currently preparing a new upload of TeX Live 2013 (prerelease) for Debian. This will bring several new changes to the Debian layout, following upstream changes: texlive-doc-? packages will disappear, the contents is...
Tsurugidake Komado Ridge
The second half of this years Golden Week was dedicated to another one of those ridges of Japanese mountaineering. Although I always try to avoid heavy backpacks and prefer staying in huts, this time...
ptex2pdf release 0.4
I have just uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it should be in tomorrow’s tlpretest. Changes came from a problematic case I had to solve for a colleague: quote the filename so that special chars...
ptex2pdf release 0.3
Yesterday I have uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it is already in today’s tlpretest. Changes are minimal: fix for the program when ptex2pdf is called with -u -e include the README into the source...
Setting up kanji embedding in TeX Live
Together with Hironori Kitagawa (北川 弘典) we finally updated the instruction on kanji embedding based on jfontmaps. The page is located at http://tug.org/texlive/updmap-kanji.html and describes the status of the upcoming TeX Live 2013 release....
Gaisi Takeuti – Proof Theory
One of the best works on proof theory finally is back in print – Gaisi Takeuti‘s Proof Theory. Originally published as Volume 81 in the series Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics...
Alpine sports climbing – Hohe Wand – Sag niemals nie
One of the pleasures of visiting Vienna is the chance to go alpine sport climbing with minimal access. The Hohe Wand can be reached in about 40min from Vienna, and offers a variety of...
jfontmaps release 20130418.0
This is a bug fix release: Fix for kanji-config-updmap-sys to call the right script fix for replacement setup for new families fix for wrong msgothic file name generate changelog from git For more details...
Hyougo-ken – Kobe – Rokko – Arima Onsen
Finally I managed to upload some photos from our trip to Hyougo-ken, visiting the foreigners’ houses and China Town in Kobe, Mount Rokko, and Arima Onsen. A nice and relaxed three day trip to...
tlmgr user mode
Starting from tomorrow, tlpretest will contain an extension to the TeX Live Manager called User Mode. This one probably one of the most asked features in recent times, that one can use tlmgr to...
How to write spam
Recently I found a nice spammed comment on this blog. It gives long text with variations, things spammers use. Only that the variations were not selected, but all included in the text. That is...
jfontmaps release 20130410.0
After quite some time of development today I uploaded jfontmaps release 20130410.0 to the CTAN servers. This release finally brings a working support for JIS2004 glyph shapes.
TeX Live development: svn and git
TeX Live development has a long history. First we were using perforce for a long time, after which we changed to subversion which is still the main development platform and the main central repository....
Preparing for TeX Live 2013 release
As recently announced, TeX Live will soon be frozen in preparation for testing the release 2013. That of course means for me to think about what critical new features I want to get into...
Multi-lingual blog – taxonomy – Tarski theme display II
An update to my about tagging post languages with the language used. Another thing I wanted is the display of flags instead of the short code of the language. In this post I explain...
Multi-lingual blog – taxonomy – Tarski theme display
As you might have seen, I am writing this blog in a few languages, mostly English of course, but also German (my mother tongue), Italian (where I lived for 2.5 years), and recently I...
