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[1/3] #DANTE2025 Friday starts with “Storytelling with Frank [Mittelbach]”. He admits that it took a while for himself to realize how bad we treated users relying on assisting technology like screen readers! He tries to give a rough overview of this impression by playing screen reader recordings of an untagged document compared to the work the tagging-project did so far. The examples can be found at latex3.github.io/tagging-proje

#a11y#TeXLaTeX#LaTeX
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#DANTE2025 is starting at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.

Mr. Lion and me are extremly curious about discussions and expecting a boost concerning tagging and accesibility of #TeXLaTeX.

We already realized yesterday, that there is too little time for all the projects we are working on… but … we are all trying our best.

I will try to sum up the talks below this.

#TeX#LaTeX
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EN in first answer.

Die #DANTE2025 startet an der Hochschule Darmstadt.

Der Löwe und ich sind startklar gespannt auf die Diskussionen. Vermutlich wieder viel zu tagging und Barrierefreiheit.

Gestern beim Vorabendtreff haben wir schon festgestellt, dass alle hier noch viel zu viel Dinge getan haben wollten… aber leider hat der Tag nur 24h … aber wir bleiben dran.

Unter diesem Toot versuche ich wieder etwas die Vorträge zusammenzufassen.

Der TeX Löwe (Stofftier) sitzt mit einer schwarzen Stoffmaske neben einem Laptop auf einem Tisch im Vortragsraum.
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David Weir :v_enby:

Was looking at the source to a very early arXiv paper (arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9210243). The PDF is unavailable, for reasons that are obscure ("pre-1996 submission which cannot be processed"). But there's a lot of history in the source code: it looks like it was submitted, as a single file, emailed from BITNET to the arXiv via a gateway. It also uses a now-obscure TeX package phyzzx (ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/).

I know I'll sound like a young person when I say this but I'd love to know how that worked in practice and what it was like to be in academia before everyone had access to a TCP/IP internet connection but after internetworked computers were ubiquitous. Sort of like the TV series Halt and Catch Fire but with physicists.

Screenshot of source code to arXiv submission. The visible lines read: %Paper: hep-ph/9210243 %From: <GRADWOHL%UCLAHEP.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> %Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:19 PDT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % 1.) The file has to be "TeXed", using the macropackage `phyzzx'. % 2.) The 5 figures are available on request. They can be received % through e-mail in form of PS files, or by regular mail. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\input phyzzx \hsize 6.5truein \vsize 9.0truein \hoffset 0.2truein \voffset 0.06truein
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Ich wollte vorhin gerade tooten, und schon kamen Menschen mit Fragen vorbei … ;-)

Aber jetzt euch für euch: Der Löwe, ein paar andere und ich sind heute auf den #CLT2025 am #DANTEeV Stand und beantworten wieder Fragen rund um #TeX & Friends. Also falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere #TeXLaTeX Problemchen habt, oder Anregungen oder einfach nur den Löwen besuchen wollt …

Er verteilt heute auch wieder kleine Löwen Ansteck-Pins. @clt_news

Foto zweier Stofftier TeX-Löwen, von denen einer eine schwarze Stoff-Maske träger, sitzen auf dem Tisch am DANTE Stand bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2025. Der Löwe mit Maske hat auf dem Schoß einen kleinen TeX-Löwen Ansteck-Pin aus Metall.
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The pretest für #TeXLive 2025 has started!

In case you want to help finding bugs before the release have a look at tug.org/texlive/pretest.html

You can also install it additionally to your normal #TeX environment and fall back in case you face any issues. But it's always better to find issues as early as possible.

Of course we are building docker images for the pretest on the #IslandOfTeX again. I'll add more information as soon as they are published.

www.tug.orgPretests - TeX Live - TeX Users Group
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Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

"#ComputerModern is the family of typefaces developed by #DonaldKnuth for #TeX. It's so good-looking that some scientists do research just so they can write it up in Computer Modern.

The cm-unicode project compiles versions of the Computer Modern fonts in a few formats, including TTF. I've run them through codeandmore's @ font-face kit generator and FontSquirrel to get all the weird formats that the various browsers insist on. This page shows off each typeface, with links to packages containing everything you need to use them in your own pages."

checkmyworking.com/cm-web-font #trypography #TypeDesign

www.checkmyworking.comUsing Computer Modern on the web
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Christof Schöch

@ElenLeFoll Very legitimate question!

#Quarto is great for writing papers, books, presentations in #Markdown and for rendering them (using #Pandoc under the hood) to formats such as HTML, XML or PDF.

#Typst is great for rendering Quarto content to #PDF without the large installation and complexity that comes with using #Tex/LaTeX instead.

My current use case is creating a template for term papers. It would take most of the worries about layout and citations off of student's minds.

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Sara Teinturier

« (Xe)LaTeX appliqué aux sciences humaines » : plus de 12 ans après sa sortie (ce temps qui passe !!!), l'ouvrage écrit par @maieulr reste d'une pertinence totale pour celles et ceux qui découvrent #LaTeX depuis / pour les #SHS.
Je viens de le prêter à une amie en pleine rédaction de maîtrise et... bingo !
Cerise sur le sundae : disponible en version papier, il l'est aussi en version PDF librement téléchargeable, ainsi qu'en dépôt github, sous licence Creative Commons 3.0 Partage à l'Identique - Paternité.
Le site de Maïeul contient également quelques correctifs et compléments apportés au livre depuis, et nombre de trucs et astuces pour utiliser LaTeX avec les besoins et contraintes des SHS.

#TeX #socialsciences #academic #academia

geekographie.maieul.net/95

geekographie.maieul.net(Xe)LaTeX appliqué aux sciences humaines - Geekographie MaïeulesqueJ'ai le grand plaisir d'annoncer la sortie de mon livre sur LaTeX appliqué aux sciences humaines et sociales (SHS).
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Achim Domma

#TeX #LaTex related tools have very good support for PDF generation, but are focused on text based layout. Free graphical layouts are usually hard to do or require at least a lot of experience with the tool.

There are various #Python libraries for image and #PDF generation. That's currently my best option, but not a very convenient one.

Does somebody know a better option? HTML->PDF with better output than "Save as PDF" would be preferred.

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