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[1/2] Die zweite Präsentation bleibt beim Thema Barrierefreiheit und Ulrike Fischer zeigt einige unterschiedlichen Varianten um #TeXLaTeX nach #HTML zu wandeln.
Ein Ansatz, den ich zum Beispiel für das frühere Backend der @datenschleuder umgesetzt hatte, um epub mitzuliefern.
Es wird #tex4ht, #Pandoc, #LaTeXML, #lwarp und auch der Weg via #NGPDF (HTML aus den #TaggedPDF) gezeigt und verglichen.
[1/3] #DANTE2025 Friday starts with “Storytelling with Frank [Mittelbach]”. He admits that it took a while for himself to realize how bad we treated users relying on assisting technology like screen readers! He tries to give a rough overview of this impression by playing screen reader recordings of an untagged document compared to the work the tagging-project did so far. The examples can be found at https://latex3.github.io/tagging-project/documentation/wtpdf/fulldoc
#DANTE2025 is starting at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt.
Mr. Lion and me are extremly curious about discussions and expecting a boost concerning tagging and accesibility of #TeXLaTeX.
We already realized yesterday, that there is too little time for all the projects we are working on… but … we are all trying our best.
I will try to sum up the talks below this.
EN in first answer.
Die #DANTE2025 startet an der Hochschule Darmstadt.
Der Löwe und ich sind startklar gespannt auf die Diskussionen. Vermutlich wieder viel zu tagging und Barrierefreiheit.
Gestern beim Vorabendtreff haben wir schon festgestellt, dass alle hier noch viel zu viel Dinge getan haben wollten… aber leider hat der Tag nur 24h … aber wir bleiben dran.
Unter diesem Toot versuche ich wieder etwas die Vorträge zusammenzufassen.
Was looking at the source to a very early arXiv paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9210243). The PDF is unavailable, for reasons that are obscure ("pre-1996 submission which cannot be processed"). But there's a lot of history in the source code: it looks like it was submitted, as a single file, emailed from BITNET to the arXiv via a gateway. It also uses a now-obscure TeX package phyzzx (https://ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/macros/phyzzx).
I know I'll sound like a young person when I say this but I'd love to know how that worked in practice and what it was like to be in academia before everyone had access to a TCP/IP internet connection but after internetworked computers were ubiquitous. Sort of like the TV series Halt and Catch Fire but with physicists.
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freezr 
Standard interchange image format for Open Source DTP
Hi people,
with all the mayor GUI #DTP software reaching their peak: #GIMP, #Scribus and #Inkscape; and the well established #TeX software #ConTeXt and #SpeedataPublisher, and #ImageMagick we need a serious discussion about which image format we should adopt that works seamlessly across all these applications and it is generally accepted in the press workflow, whereas is embedded or not into a PDF file.
It should be something that has good quality, supports #CMYK and Alpha channels and it is #opensource friendly and perhaps an #openstandard.
I would dare to say that perhaps jpeg2000 matches most of them, it exists from a very long time and can be adopted as common ground, however it is need a combined effort, if what I am writing makes sense for you.
ImageMagick supports it, Gimp 3 currently doesn't, #LuaTeX and #LuaMetaTeX neither. I guess that Inkscape once it will be able to export in CMYK it will decide which format using to store images in CMYK with alpha into a PDF.
It would be very beneficial if we can adopt a format that works everywhere and it is press friendly, thanks.
New Artist announced for Roskilde Festival 2025: 
Tex
Listen to the current LineUp on YouTube and Spotify: https://fyrefestivals.co
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Ich wollte vorhin gerade tooten, und schon kamen Menschen mit Fragen vorbei … ;-)
Aber jetzt euch für euch: Der Löwe, ein paar andere und ich sind heute auf den #CLT2025 am #DANTEeV Stand und beantworten wieder Fragen rund um #TeX & Friends. Also falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere #TeXLaTeX Problemchen habt, oder Anregungen oder einfach nur den Löwen besuchen wollt …
Er verteilt heute auch wieder kleine Löwen Ansteck-Pins. @clt_news
There are only 3 hours left to bid on #FreeSoftware #memorabilia! Bid now before time runs out: https://u.fsf.org/466 #FSF #FSF40 #GNU #Amiga3000UX #VT220 #TeX #Terminus-est #Savannah #gawk #lilypond #emacs
21.03.2025, 10 Uhr: LaTeX zum wissenschaftlichen Schreiben 
In unserem kurzen Einführungskurs zeigen wir euch, wie’s geht – ganz ohne Installation, direkt in der Cloud mit Overleaf. 
Was? 1,5 Stunden kompaktes Wissen
Wo? Online via Zoom
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#TeXLaTeX #LaTeX #TeX #Schreibprogramme #ReadyToHausarbeit #ReadyToHausarbeit2025
https://www.edulabs.uni-koeln.de/ilias.php?baseClass=ilrepositorygui&cmd=infoScreen&ref_id=12225
Been keeping an eye on this, looks like TeXLive 2025 is now released, you can download the ISO. Torrents should be available in due course.
This is NOT an official annoucement as I have no connection to the team behind it. Please see website for latest information.
[Not sure it counts as "tech", but: ]
Donald Knuth's TeX typesetting system.
A rare case where a design fully meets the demands of a problem, once and for all.
Unchanged for nearly five decades, forever fresh and alive. Because it is right.
Gives me joy every day.
Preparing tomorrow's workshop at @ANRT with @Ludi @AntoineGelgon and @eugbidaut and going back to
"Lessons Learned from #Metafont by #DonaldKnuth and this incredible erratic and beautiful attemps to draw numbers in 1977.
#typography #MetaFont #TeX
![5 series of digits 2 , 5, 6, 7 and 8. With the text "By the end of 1977, the mimerais in my experimental meta-font had evolved to the point shown in Figure 6. I was satisfied with them at the time, so I spent mort of 1978 working on the TDC typesetting system and doing other sorts of computer science research. In 1979 I decided to design a symbolic language for letterforms that would reflect at a higher level what I had been thinking about when writing my ALGOL programs in 1977; this new language became the original META-FONT system [4]. Considerable work was necessary in 1980 to hook up the output of METAFONT with a high-resolution phototypesetter; during this time I was preoccupied with software problems and unable to do much with the font designs. Then fmally I reached the goal that I had hoped to achieve two years earlier: I completed the second edition of my book Seminumer-ical Algorithms [5], a 700-page work in which every-thing but the illustrations had been done entirely by new computer methods. Altogether 35 fonts were used in that book—seven sizes of roman, six of italic, and three each of bold and slanted and typewriter styles, with each size drawn separately; there were six versions [...]"](https://post.lurk.org/system/media_attachments/files/114/015/740/999/239/282/original/41036b0499c8e14d.png "5 series of digits 2 , 5, 6, 7 and 8. With the text \"By the end of 1977, the mimerais in my experimental meta-font had evolved to the point shown in Figure 6. I was satisfied with them at the time, so I spent mort of 1978 working on the TDC typesetting system and doing other sorts of computer science research. In 1979 I decided to design a symbolic language for letterforms that would reflect at a higher level what I had been thinking about when writing my ALGOL programs in 1977; this new language became the original META-FONT system [4]. Considerable work was necessary in 1980 to hook up the output of METAFONT with a high-resolution phototypesetter; during this time I was preoccupied with software problems and unable to do much with the font designs. Then fmally I reached the goal that I had hoped to achieve two years earlier: I completed the second edition of my book Seminumer-ical Algorithms [5], a 700-page work in which every-thing but the illustrations had been done entirely by new computer methods. Altogether 35 fonts were used in that book—seven sizes of roman, six of italic, and three each of bold and slanted and typewriter styles, with each size drawn separately; there were six versions [...]\"")
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@libreoffice Great support for a life w/o monopolist software, due to the abilities of the libreoffice suite to read those files and export them to #tex and other formats
#ilovefs #opensource #foss
Thanks for your joined efforts
Some #TeXLive 2025 pretest news: The IoT TeX Live Images published yesterday now include one fundamental change. The Default #PDF version now finally has been changed to 1.7. (was 1.5 before).
I really appreciate that change as it makes I don't have to explain too much why I add a that change within the documents to allow inclusion of PDF 1.7 images.