PiwigoPress release 2.28
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release fixes a long open bug. Some time ago I added the feature to download images from...
Setting up CJK fonts for GhostScript
After long discussions on the MacTeX mailing list, and thanks to much work of many contributors, I can finally announce the CJK font integration script for GhostScript. While far from perfect, especially because GhostScript...
TeX Live: the new multi fmtutil
Some time ago I posted a few articles on internals of TeX Live, which might be of interest for the general user, too: and . With and the pretest for 2015 about to start,...
TeX Live 2014 frozen – pretest starting soon
So there we are, each year around April TeX Live gets frozen. Today’s update was the last of TeX Live 2014. From now on we concentrate on updating binaries and packaging in preparation for...
Managing slides and handouts in LaTeX
Now that my teaching season has started, I need to produce slides and handouts for lots of lectures. For saving paper I print the handouts in 2-up, so two slides per page. Till now...
Hitomi Kanehara – Snakes and Earrings
Prized and highly recommended here and there, I finally came around to read Hitomi Kanehara‘s (金原 ひとみ) short novel Snakes and Earrings, which won the Akutagawa prize in 2003, and was made into a...
Impressions from Hawaii, the Big Island
As I am still in Hawaii, I don’t want to spend too much time in front of the computer, so here are only some short impressions from our stay on the Big Island. What...
Slick Google Map 0.2 released
I just have pushed a new version of the Slick Google Map plugin for WordPress to the servers. There are not many changes, but one that has been requested already in the ancestor, the...
Rewriting fmtutil in Perl
TeX Live 2015 is still a few months of, but one of the things I am planning for it is to rewrite fmtutil in Perl, and change its functionality slightly. This follows the rewrite...
Tutorial: Lists in CafeOBJ
I have created a new tutorial for CafeOBJ that will introduce users to functional programming the CafeOBJ way, in particular list processing and programming. We introduce lists, and define functions on them: length, append,...
Sigil for Debian
After long and painful back and forth, we finally uploaded Sigil to Debian. Sigil is a great multi-platform epub editor. First time the intention to package was uttered was in 2010, see bug 590180,...
End of gitorious, move to github
I just realized that gitorious.org will shut down end of May due to being acquired by GitLab. That means I had to move the repositories I had there over to different places. Gitorious offered...
TeX Live pre-2015 for Debian
Now that jessie is close to release, and TeX Live 2015 release is planned for around June, I thought I start working on integrating the current status of TeX Live svn and tlnet into...
PiwigoPress release 2.27
I just pushed a new release of PiwigoPress (, WordPress plugin dir) to the WordPress servers. This release adds one feature requested on the support forums. The new feature allow to put html code...
さよなら
さよならの詩 生も死もひとつのブランコの分岐点において ゆらゆらそのゆれをほほえんで見ているしかないのですね。 桜の国の散る中で死人の口がうたうたう 天国と地獄はよく似てる。 太陽の光を見えなくても、前向きにしないといけないけど。。。 雲の浮ついた行き先と気にしながら歩く覚悟の寂寥が今揃って火を噴く 足跡のない雲道を黒馬の群れが突き進んでゆくで。 頑張ろう。 、ありがとう。
