The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html
Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
très beau portrait #algorithmes #tex (#latex)
Je veux pas dénoncer @archiloque qui a fini les quatres tomes et s’en sert pour caler son bureau
seenthis met les tags en minuscules malheureusement (j’ai l’habitude d’écrire mes tags en camelCase).
What’s in a Name : A Guide to the Many Flavours of TeX - Overleaf Blog
▻https://www.overleaf.com/blog/500-whats-in-a-name-a-guide-to-the-many-flavours-of-tex
Unless you are a seasoned TeX user, or familiar with its ecosystem, the many “varieties of TeX” can be confusing; however, by the end of this article you should feel much more informed and at ease when engaging with any colleagues, authors or journal editors who are conversant with TeX-based terminology.
#TeX #LaTeX (ca finit par de la pub pour un service commercial, mais sinon c’est bien fait)
Je prends connaissance de cette #bibliothèque numérique #anarchiste :
The Anarchist Library
▻https://theanarchistlibrary.org
theanarchistlibrary.org is (despite its name) an #archive focusing on #anarchism, #anarchist texts, and texts of interest for anarchists.
Within the scope of our use of the term “anarchism” we have been quite broad, but broad does not mean infinite, and basically shrinks down to a set of ideas against the State and the capital. This immediately rules out the so-called “anarcho-capitalism”, “anarcho-nationalism” and similar crap.
What is so special about this site?
Often, you may find the texts hosted here on other sites that also aim to be digital libraries, and often the texts are taken from them (the source is always listed). But this #library provides (together with the on-line version of each text) one or more high quality PDFs in various sizes and and formats, as well as its plain text sources, and an #EPUB version for mobile platforms. We actively encourage the #DIY printing and the distribution of the texts, so you have the “imposed” version for Letter paper (USA) and A4 (rest of the world): just print double side, fold and clip, and the booklet is ready.
The site provides a way for distributors and friends to change the layout of the PDFs and to create collections of an arbitrary number of texts (1 or more). See the bookbuilder page.
The site also provides an advanced search engine.
Et donc je prends aussi connaissance de ce #CMS
Amusewiki
▻https://amusewiki.org/special/index
Amusewiki , a library-oriented #wiki engine. #Amusewiki is more than just a wiki engine, it’s also a powerful authoring, archiving and publishing platform.
Why would I want this engine and not MediaWiki / Drupal / WordPress / whatever?
Amusewiki is not a clone of existing CMS. It was created to manage large amounts of texts (books and articles) with a special focus on quality, printing and first rate reading experience.
The PDF and EPUB generation is not a nice addon, it’s the core feature.
If you only need a CMS for a fancy site, amusewiki is not for you.
Instead, you should consider amusewiki if:
- You want high-quality output (EPUB and #PDF with #LaTeX quality).
- You want a site with a #flat-file and #Git backend for long-term archiving.
- You want to be able to reformat the PDFs, merging texts into collections. Add a text and take a look at the bookbuilder
- You don’t want or need fine-grained user permissions.
- You don’t want or need talks, comments, forums, social, etc embedded into the site.
See the feature list for more details.
Peut-être connais-tu aussi, dans le même genre, la Kate Sharpley Library (▻http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net) ?
Là aussi il y a un fonds documentaire énorme. Elle a été fondée notamment par un militant anglais nommé Albert Meltzer.
Autopromotion : je publie une chronique sur ce personnage, dans mon blog, cet après-midi ou demain. Je suis en train d’y mettre la dernière main.
Ah je ne connaissais, merci ! J’irai lire ta note quand elle sera publiée :-)
How to write in LazyTeX instead of strict LaTeX
▻http://hroy.eu/tips/TeX/LazyTex
TL;DR Use Pandoc, write your document in a combination of YAML, Markdown and, when you need it, inline LaTeX. Read Pandoc’s README.
TeX is awesome. LaTeX was made to make it easier to use TeX and produce high-quality documents.
Still, there are two downsides with using LaTeX:
the source of your document is a bit cryptic for people who aren’t used to source code TeX was designed for paper as the output and thus comes with its limitations.
Today, most LaTeX documents end up as PDF and/or printed on paper (which is kind of the same). This is nice, but PDF and paper are not mediums that enable others to co-edit the text (unless they can work with the LaTeX source, but most people won’t learn that, see point 1 above).
This is especially sad because LaTeX is not only able to produce awesome (...)
ScholarlyMarkdown
▻http://scholarlymarkdown.com
ScholarlyMarkdown is a syntax/standard/best-practice of scholarly and academic communication that is web-first, semantic XML-second, and LaTeX/Word a close third. Its main goal is to produce a semantically model of a scholarly article based on Markdown input, and translate it to a variety of formats that is suitable for both online scholarly communication, archiving, and publication.
This is meant to be a replacement for LaTeX, using Markdown, implemented as a fork of pandoc. I’m not sure how hard I should be banging my head against the wall.
What’s new in TeX | Hacker News
▻https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468755
Discussion and pointers to various ways of converting TeX/LaTeX to HTML. It is a sad, sad universe.
My own take on “Should LaTeX survive on the web?” is “yes, if it evolves to meet the paradigm shift”. I wrote a detailed version of that position at ▻http://prodg.org/blog/latex_today/2015-03-16/LaTeX%20is%20Dead%20%28long%20live%20LaTeX%29
It’s an interesting article. The prospect that there are people who want to replace LaTeX with Markdown is pretty depressing.
paper size - Slight discrepancy in left/right margins - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
▻https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79568/slight-discrepancy-in-left-right-margins/79574
The printer driver of Adobe Reader has a rather “nice” feature. If I look at the page properties of a PDF document produced with pdflatex, the program says
20.998 x 29.697 cm
while with pdfinfo I get
595.276 x 841.89 pts (A4)
However, according to bc,
595.276*2.54/72 = 21.00001444444444444444
841.89*2.54/72 = 29.70000833333333333333
so it’s not clear why the dimensions are different from 21 x 29.7 cm. If I change the units to points (Postscript big points), Adobe Reader says 595.3 x 841.9, so I’m really confused about the computations it does, which imply a shorter inch than the official one (2.5397cm, instead of 2.54cm).
Since the output format is set to A4, which at Adobe Reader’s eyes is different from the stated document size, the program offers by default to “Fit to printable area” with a zoom to 93%, which is quite a bizarre figure, since the document is smaller than the paper, at Reader’s eyes, not larger.
So, always watch out for the printing options and remember to choose “None” from the “Page Scaling” pop up menu.
Cover Letter with Style - Part One – Minimalia
▻http://www.kindoblue.nl/articles/cover-letter-part1
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Une alternative à BibTeX pour LaTeX ?
workflow-apps.org at master from kjhealy/workflow-paper - GitHub
►https://github.com/kjhealy/workflow-paper/blob/master/workflow-apps.org
If you plan to use BibTeX to manage your references, take a look at BibLaTeX, a package by Philipp Lehman, in conjunction with Biber, a replacement for BibTeX. BibLaTeX and Biber are not yet officially stable, but they are very well-documented, in wide use, and will soon jointly replace BibTeX as the standard way to process bibliographies in LaTeX.