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Yesterday my contract with my university JAIST ended. I was working there as Associate Professor for 6.5 years, but the university decided not to extend my contract (financial problems, foreigner in Japan). That means,...
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Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160320-1 and biber 2.4-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian, this time also with an update to biber to accompany the updated version of biblatex. This will...
Debian/TeX Live full update 20160223
Only one week has passed since the update, and there is already a new one? The explanation is simple: consolidation of packages and preparation for 2016. The update comprises of uploads of texlive-base, texlive-lang,...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160215-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian. While I am not really calling for testers at the moment, building of preliminary packages for TeX...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20160117-1 and biber 2.3-1
About one month has passed and here is the usual updated of TeX Live packages for Debian, this time also with an update to biber to accompany the updated version of biblatex. Nothing spectacular...
CJK fonts and Ghostscript: cjk-gs-integrate release 20160115.0
I have made a new release of , the script that searches for all kind of CJK fonts, and makes them available to Ghostscript (and if asked for also to TeX by linking). The...
10 years TeX Live in Debian
I recently dug through my history of involvement with TeX (Live), and found out that in January there are a lot of “anniversaries” I should celebrate: 14 years ago I started building binaries for...
TeX Live security improvements
Today I committed a set of changes to the TeX Live subversion repository that should pave the way for better security handling in the future. Work is underway to use strong cryptographic signatures to...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151226-1
Before I disappear into the Japanese winter holidays, here the Christmas update of all TeX Live packages. Nothing spectacular here, just the usual bunch of updates of loads of packages. There is a bug...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20151116-1
One month has passed since the big , and not one bug report concerning it did come in, that are good news. So here is a completely boring update with nothing more than the...
Japanese TeX User Meeting – Support for Japanese in TeX (Live) – present state and future?
Tomorrow the Japanese TeX User Meeting 2015 will be held in Tokyo. Since I have come to Japan I have attended more or less every year this meeting, and in 2013 we could get...
Debian/TeX Live multiarch update
A big update of all related packages (tex-common 6.04, texlive-bin 2015.20150524.37493-7, texlive-base/lang/extra package 2015.20151016-1) due to the move to support multi-arch. Of course, the regular updates of the TeX Live are included, too. With...
Updates for OSX 10.11 El Capitan: cjk-gs-integrate and jfontmaps 20151002.0
Now that OSX 10.11 El Capitan is released and everyone is eagerly updating, in cooperation with the colleagues from the Japanese TeX world we have released new versions of the jfontmaps and cjk-gs-integrate packages....
jfontmaps release 20150923.0
After a year without a release we finally pushed out a new version of the Japanese font maps. The main addition is support for the fonts shipped in the upcoming El Capitan OSX release,...
Debian/TeX Live 2015.20150917-1
Usual regular update of the TeX Live packages. Now that Debian/unstable is back to full development speed thanks to the end of the bit gcc transition, probably this TeX Live update will be lost...
Debian/TeX Live complete update
Triggered by all the bugs around I spent my weekend instead of mountaineering with crawling through the TeX Live history for changes and fixes to dvipdfm-x. Thanks to 角藤さん for his hints, I have...
