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Towards 21st Century Digital Typography
The years 2078 to 2082 will be the 100th anniversary of Don Knuth's creation of TeX, Metafont and the Computer Modern fonts. Being already more than middle-aged, I won't be there to celebrate.
I'll be giving a talk on this at the online 2021 TeX Conference (5-8 August). The abstract is below. At tomorrow's (15 July, 18:30 UK time) TeX Hour your views on this topic will be most welcome. For details see contact.
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Lighter TeX Runs Faster
Summary This post is making TeX working better on the cloud. It does this by making a custom TeX Live that contains only the resource your document needs. It's preparation for the TeX Hour tomorrow (Thursday 25 March). There's a proof-of-concept at the URLs at the foot of this page.
In case you didn't know, every Thursday (18:30 to 19:30 UK time) there's a zoom TeX Hour. The zoom URL and other details are here.
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Render Latex Multiple Ways
Summary This post is about LaTeX to PDF and LaTeX to HTML. It's preparation for the TeX Hour tomorrow (Thursday 18 March). In case you didn't know, every Thursday (18:30 to 19:30 UK time) there's a zoom TeX Hour. The zoom URL and other details here.
At tomorrow's TeX Hour I'll attempt to give a history of producing PDF and HTML from a single source file, and related topics. Also, questions can be asked and there'll be discussion.
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A Blind Math User Story
Summary A user story is a description of a system, from the point of view of a user of the system. Here give the user story of an engineering college student who is blind.
For background see User Stories and Acccessibility. Every Thursday (18:30 to 19:30 UK time) there's a zoom TeX Hour. Details here.
Once upon a time … This month on the Blind Math list Kellee Sanchez wrote
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A Visually Impaired Coder's User Story
Summary A user story is a description of a system, from the point of view of a user of the system. Here give the user story a person who's blind attending a software boot camp.
For background see User Stories and Acccessibility. Every Thursday (18:30 to 19:30 UK time) there's a zoom TeX Hour. Details here.
Once upon a time … This month on the Visually Impaired coders list Jana Schroeder wrote
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