OH: “#PDF is a very complicated format, but you can work with it when you just learn to ignore everything you don''t understand.”
Just discovered that while sorting my notes from the pdf #tagging workshop by the #TeXLaTeX Project Team last week.
That day just was too full with other stuff I didn't manage to directly toot it :D But I still find it worth, as it describes actually a nice way to get stared debugging the tagging.
Travel back from #TUG2024 was a bit chaotic. Czech railway service also seems to be underfunded. But we made it, just needed yesterday to get kind of a rest.
There is one thing I didn't mention yet and should: I finally received a fitted tshirt!
@TeXUsersGroup sadly didn''t offer that by default, but the local organizer made it possible. Was bit weird to was welcome with the words “that's the special tshirt” at the registration, as others were sorted by size. I even had a personalized label.
Last presentation at #TUG2024 is Martin Ruckert explaining his process of decision making and implementation during the creation of a color concept for the HINT project.
HINT is some kind of responsive format to display documents using the same algorithms as #TeX (https://github.com/ruckertm/HINT/)
As it has a light + dark mode colors are not chosen directly, which actually we all should try to avoid as it makes the content easier to be reused more universal within different document types or layouts..
Last session starts with Didier Verna's extensions to the Knuth-Plass algortihm. He developed them using his ETAP presented last year.
He is introducing an extra variant of contextual demerits to avoid the same word to be placed the same word at the beginning or end of successive lines also questioning if is worth or not depending on a lot of facts.
Link to the ETAP repo: https://github.com/didierverna/etap
Slides containing the data: https://tug.org/tug2024/slides/verna-knuth-plass.pdf
[1/2] Just in case you use the units #TeXLaTeX package still somewhere within your documents (which always confuses me) you probably want to remove and replace it by #siunitx simple because that's the actively maintained one.
Joseph Wright is now talking about the last updates and plans for the package. The changes are much smaller than the complete reimplementation for v3.0.0 but he still is making the typesetting of numbers and units much easier.
@borisveytsman extended @docum3nt's bookshelf class for multilingual support and is now presenting the results and feature ideas. #TUG2024
It's a pandemic project which allows you to create a colorful virtual bookshelf out of a #BibTeX database to be used with #biblatex The intention was to be able to use it as background for video calls, but you can also just use it to finally have a shelf for your ebooks. #TeXLaTeX
Bookshelf on CTAN:
https://ctan.org/pkg/bookshelf
Antoine Bossard continues with language specific #typesetting:
Specifically Latin verse scansion.
Link to the preprint: https://tug.org/tug2024/preprints/bossard-verse.pdf
Showing how #unicode / #utf8 is improving also old languages, which I will use as a nice argument to get people to use unicode as some still are using #TeXLaTeX macros to insert accents or umlauts, which I just can't understand.
Marei
samcarter
Alexander Krumeich
Lupino