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glu is getting mature. This is an example of a markdown file processed with glu (results in a PDF) and checked for accessibility by PAC. All green!

You get a perfectly tagged document from a markdown source with no additional work.

OpenSource, MIT license.
#accessibility #PDFUA #glu #boxesandglue #markdown

Fixed two long standing bugs in the line breaking algorithm in boxes and glue. I had to re-read the Knuth paper about optimum fit line breaking... Both fixes are in v0.2.18

#boxesandglue #knuth #digitaltypography

Finally created a first real world example for the boxes and glue command line interface at https://github.com/boxesandglue/boxesandglue-examples/tree/main/commandline/zugferdinvoice

Creating 1,000 EN 16931 compliant invoices in 14 seconds on an 2021 m1 MacBook Pro is not bad...

#boxesandglue #highspeedpublishing #zugferd

So for Grazer Linuxtage (#glt25) I consider submitting a talk. I came up with two talk ideas so far. Which talk would you be interested in?

*Current state of digital typesetting*
a comparsion and explanation of typesetting engines like #TeX/#LuaLaTeX, #typst, #SILE, #boxesandglue, and frontends like #Quarto

*New features in CSS3*
This talk assumes you are familiar with #CSS, but you need an update for the latest #CSS3 features with a focus on typography and line-based typesetting

XTS news: This has been a pretty busy week. Here are the news:

* XTS version 0.0.2 is released (https://github.com/speedata/xts/releases/tag/v0.0.2)
* There is the beginning of a manual at https://doc.speedata.de/xts/
* The example repo is at https://github.com/speedata/xts-examples
* XTS is now BSD licensed!

What is #XTS? The XML typesetting system is a PDF database publishing software to create product catalogs and other high demand output. #speedata #boxesandglue