TeX Live 2013 released
In the last hours Karl Berry has finally put the release 2013 of TeX Live online. That means that new installations from tlnet will use the 2013 package base. But be warned, mirror updates...
クライミング 大鳥居（滋賀県）
雨の天気予報の金土曜日の予定を諦めて、そのかわりに日曜日の日帰りのクライミングが決められた。目的は明星山になった。日曜日の朝５時に森本ＩＣで集合して、まだ結構迷っていた。天気予報はそんなに悪くなくても、朝ずっと雨が降っていたから、どうなるかな〜？
The Pain of DRM
There is this new book you really want to read, published in Germany, hard to get in Japan, but there is a eBook version, so you are happy. You purchase the eBook happily (for...
Chick Corea – Stanley Clarke – 福井県立音楽堂ハーモニーホール
昨夜初めて福井県立音楽堂ハーモニーホールに行ってきた。Chick Corea – Stanley Clarke Duetは北陸へ来たのは、ジャズが大好きな僕の大喜びだった。
de Jong: Schriftwechsel and Lunde: CJKV Information Processing
The following two books cover two very different, though somehow related topics. Stephanie & Ralf de Jong’s Schriftwechsel (in German!) introduces basic principles of typography and especially font design. What sets it apart for...
Starship Titanic/Kawakyu – Douglas Adams – Towel Day
Today is Towel Day, the annual celebration of the author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). So today – honoring Douglas Adams incredible creations – I want to present the famous Starship Kawakyu – upps, Starship Titanic...
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...
