Monthly Archive: May 2013
Starship Titanic/Kawakyu – Douglas Adams – Towel Day
Today is Towel Day, the annual celebration of the author Douglas Adams (1952-2001). So today – honoring Douglas Adams incredible creations – I want to present the famous Starship Kawakyu – upps, Starship Titanic...
TeX Live 2013 for Debian
I am currently preparing a new upload of TeX Live 2013 (prerelease) for Debian. This will bring several new changes to the Debian layout, following upstream changes: texlive-doc-? packages will disappear, the contents is...
Tsurugidake Komado Ridge
The second half of this years Golden Week was dedicated to another one of those ridges of Japanese mountaineering. Although I always try to avoid heavy backpacks and prefer staying in huts, this time...
ptex2pdf release 0.4
I have just uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it should be in tomorrow’s tlpretest. Changes came from a problematic case I had to solve for a colleague: quote the filename so that special chars...
ptex2pdf release 0.3
Yesterday I have uploaded ptex2pdf to CTAN, and it is already in today’s tlpretest. Changes are minimal: fix for the program when ptex2pdf is called with -u -e include the README into the source...
Setting up kanji embedding in TeX Live
Together with Hironori Kitagawa (北川 弘典) we finally updated the instruction on kanji embedding based on jfontmaps. The page is located at http://tug.org/texlive/updmap-kanji.html and describes the status of the upcoming TeX Live 2013 release....