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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.
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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/
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Behold an innovation in academic publishing that, astonishingly, is an IMPROVEMENT, not an abomination.
Instead of marking up proofs and sending them back, I am allowed to make direct edits to the publisher's source file in LaTeX.
Is this genuinely new, or have I just been publishing in old fogey journals? I still smart over having been forced to change a beautiful LaTeX document into MICROSOFT WORD DOC, of all things, when the article was accepted back in 2021.
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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.
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Service toot: Just in case you need a reason to update your #TeXLive:
#minted finally release the 3.0.0 which provides an own binary which makes the python/ #pygments setup obsolete. This also drops the requirement of shell-escape (or different hacks) to use the syntax highlighting.
Ensure to not only update the package itself, as you also need to update the settings which allow it to run in restricted mode.