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Vielen Dank an das Redaktionsteam der #DieTeXnischeKomödie vom #DANTEeV für die neueste Ausgabe 3/2026 u.a. mit interessanten Buchvorstellungen von "Drucksachen gestalten mit #ConTeXt und #LuaMETATeX" von @fiee sowie dem #TeXLaTeX Beginner's Guide von Stefan Kottwitz.

How do Computational Literary Studies (CLS) have a "disciplineness" that other subfields of DH do not?
And what are us others missing out on because we don't?

Welcome back to hot take hour at the #TeXLaTeX Ninja blog!

Would love to hear your thoughts about processes of (sub-)discipline formation within the #DH or #ComputationalHumanities!

http://latex-ninja.com/2026/09/13/dh-as-a-discipline-and-the-sub-disciplines-of-dh/

Bonjour à toutes et à tous ! 👋

Poussé par un collègue qui avait cette idée depuis un moment mais n'avait pas les compétences pour coder ça en #LaTeX...

On commence un nouveau projet : GéomaTeX → https://lmdbt.forge.apps.education.fr/geomatex/

Il redige le texte, je m'occupe des figures. 👌

L'idée : une bibliothèque de méthode pour tracer des figures rédigé en LaTeX.

Merci encore à @cpierquet dont le paquet OutilsGeomTikZ facilite grandement le travail ! 🙏

EDIT : lien CTAN vers OutilsGeomTikZ → https://ctan.org/pkg/outilsgeomtikz

#TeXLaTeX #Géométrie #Cycle3 #TeamMaths #REL #LaForge

For newbies feeling hesitant or frustrated about #Emacs and its Lisp flavor. tl;dr #Foss #lifelonglearning victories!

In 2010 or so I watched an interview with the immortal Carsten Dominik, creator of Org mode. He made an offhand remark to the effect of "I just love coding in Emacs Lisp, it's just how I think, it's just so natural, don't you agree?" And I was very unhappy. Because I could not agree. That discouragement stuck with me.

My wife always says "the time is going to go by anyway," and this is wisdom. By 2023 I had written "org-teach" for producing classroom materials, shared it at EmacsConf, actually used it in the wild. Others around here have done similar, @randyridenour @ericsfraga @asilata sorry if I'm forgetting you.

Long story short, the underlying #TeXLaTeX core couldn't do #taggedpdf until 2025. I asked on here for help and @yantar92 went to the mailing list and before I could say meta x @paaguti and @schuemaa had us all sorted out. So grateful!

https://codeberg.org/paaguti/pdf-ua2-tests/src/branch/main/ltx-talk-test

With these significantly changed dependencies I decided to rewrite the jank that was org-teach from scratch. And it feels like lightning shoots from my fingertips now. I can implement functionality almost as fast as I can think of it. Too messy to share quite yet. But this kind of workflow and software self sufficiency feels like a superpower. Emacs Lisp just feels natural now. After only a decade and a half!

But seriously, all my progress is thanks to this community.

#emacslisp

‘Bertrand Russell & Trinity: A college controversy of the last war’ is a pamphlet written by G.H. Hardy in 1942, giving an account of the dismissal of Russell from his Trinity College lectureship in 1916 following his criminal conviction for anti-war political activity. (Hardy was at the time a fellow of Trinity and opposed Russell's ouster.)

Since there was no downloadable ebook, I made a re-typeset version, which I have just updated: https://archive.org/details/hardy_russellandtrinity

Creating this version was an exercise for me to learn how to (start to) adapt my LaTeX styles to the new interfaces created by the ongoing LaTeX tagging project [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/]. (A #TaggedPDF contains supplementary information to assist screen reading software, data extraction, etc.)

The updates are mostly behind-the-scenes source code changes, particularly to use the new template interfaces for sectioning. I have made the source available in case it is useful as an example to others: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/hardy_russellandtrinity

#GHHardy #BertrandRussell #WorldWarI #pacficism #literature #TeXLaTeX #Accessibility

Big update to the annotated edition of G.H. Hardy's ‘A Mathematician's Apology’: the PDF is now *tagged* (plus various minor improvements).

(A #TaggedPDF contains extra semantic information to assist screen-reading software etc.)

The new version is available (#OpenAccess as always) at https://archive.org/details/hardy_annotated

The LaTeX tagging system is still under development [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/], but I have been making progress in adapting my LaTeX styles to be tagging-compatible.

For the annotated ‘Apology’, I also had to re-implement a subset of the functionality of the "manyfoot" package (which is currently not tagging-compatible), because there are two different kinds of footnotes in the annotated ‘Apology’. (Hardy's original footnotes and the annotations.)

Although the PDF passes VeraPDF validation, there may of course be mistakes in the tagging. Feedback, especially from users of screen readers, would be much appreciated, especially because I now hope to add tags to ‘Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty’ [https://archive.org/details/cain_formandnumber_ebook_large].

#GHHardy #HistPhil #Mathematics #MathematicalBeauty #TeXLaTeX #Accessibility

‘Bertrand Russell & Trinity: A college controversy of the last war’ is a pamphlet written by G.H. Hardy in 1942, giving an account of the dismissal of Russell from his Trinity College lectureship in 1916 following his criminal conviction for anti-war political activity. (Hardy was at the time a fellow of Trinity and opposed Russell's ouster.)

I have uploaded a re-typeset version of Hardy's pamphlet to the Internet Archive [https://archive.org/details/hardy_russellandtrinity].

Creating this version was an exercise for me to learn how to (start to) adapt my LaTeX styles to the new interfaces created by the ongoing LaTeX tagging project [https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/]. (A #TaggedPDF contains supplementary information to assist screen reading software, data extraction, etc.)

Also, Hardy's work is in the public domain; there seemed to be no downloadable ebook version of this pamphlet; and I thought that it would be a useful companion to the ‘Annotated Mathematician's Apology’ [https://archive.org/details/hardy_annotated].

I have made available the #LuaLaTeX source code on #Codeberg, in case anyone is interested in how the style was created: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/hardy_russellandtrinity

#GHHardy #BertrandRussell #WorldWarI #HistPhil #TeXLaTeX #Accessibility

Smaller: methods to reduce the size of a PDF file

https://quantixed.org/2024/03/26/smaller-methods-to-reduce-the-size-of-a-pdf-file/

#computing #publishing #papers #pdf #science #TeXLaTeX #tftb

Smaller: methods to reduce the size of a PDF file

https://quantixed.org/2024/03/26/smaller-methods-to-reduce-the-size-of-a-pdf-file/

#computing #publishing #papers #pdf #science #TeXLaTeX #tftb

Smaller: methods to reduce the size of a PDF file

https://quantixed.org/2024/03/26/smaller-methods-to-reduce-the-size-of-a-pdf-file/

#computing #publishing #papers #pdf #science #TeXLaTeX #tftb

Smaller: methods to reduce the size of a PDF file

https://quantixed.org/2024/03/26/smaller-methods-to-reduce-the-size-of-a-pdf-file/

#computing #publishing #papers #pdf #science #TeXLaTeX #tftb

Anybody experienced in using #LaTeX or #TeX with #traditional #Chinese characters? I could use #ctexart and the #ctex package but it only seems to support #simplified characters. What I mean by this is not only being able to type #TraditionalChinese but also the article itself (section, table of contents...) should be in #traditionalCharacters, not simplified. #繁體字 #簡體字 #followerpower #boost #TeXLaTeX