Bit late, as one of the historic mirrors ran out of space and messed up our workflow:
#TeXLive2025 is now available as historic image via our #IslandOfTeX #docker image registry
registry.gitlab.com/islandoftex/images/texlive:TL2025-historic
So in case you are scared by the changes provided by TeXLive2026, feel free to use it (But please ensure to keep one pipeline running texlive:latest to help testing. Thanks!)
Hallo @karlsruhe , nachdem ihr ja offen für nischige Themen seid und auch Online-Kurse anbietet:
Würdet ihr Kurse zu TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt) ins Programm aufnehmen? Oder wen sollte ich da (überregional) ansprechen? (Ja, Email an [email protected] habe ich gesehen, eine grobe Einschätzung wäre mir willkommen.)
Haben andere Erfahrungen mit VHS-Kursen zu TeX-Themen? Ist das sinnvoll?
AUCTeX, the TeX mode for Emacs, got a few patches to enhance the ConTeXt experience, see https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/n[email protected]/thread/KBHWORCIXQNJSQ3KC4OF2F4EL2OROPJ6/
At the ConTeXt intro workshop last Wednesday, participants struggled with ConTeXt on the newly released TeX Live 2026.
Not the usual about wrong paths or unwritable cache directories.
ConTeXt was apparently correctly installed, generating the file database and the format was working, but then it couldn’t find the format file if the "context" or "mtxrun" command wasn’t called with its full path.
TeX Live’s processes were changed before this release and something’s broken.
Frank Mittelbach, Karl Berry, Hans Hagen, and Herbert Voß were just elected as honorary members of DANTE e.V. for their life-long work and commitment for TeX and its community.
Hans Hagen continued with visual examples of the typesetting improvements they developed for #TeXConTeXt to produce more complex layouts using column sets.
The increased flexibility is amazing and his slides also illustrate why one might want to take toddlers and twins into account when optimizing the typesetting.
I will add a link to the slides as soon as they are publshed. Guess it's better to show than try to explain ;-)
RE: https://chaos.social/@TeXhackse/116215631121125378
Inspired by @samcarter ’s talk at DANTE’s spring meeting, Hans implemented cistercian numerals* in ConTeXt. With the next update, you’ll be able to use them as number conversion "c". (Since ~2 years you can already use Kaktovik numerals* as conversion "k".)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaktovik_numerals
Hans Hagen zeige anschließend einige Beispiele für die Verbesserungen in #TeXConTeXt, um verbesserrte Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten im Satz zu zeigen. Er fokussierte sich da auf visuelle Beispiele aus Rücksicht auf Teilnehmende, die kein #TeXConTeXt sprechen aber hob dadurch auch schön die Flexibilität des Konzeptes des „Column Sets“ hervor.
Wieder einmal mit netten Kommentaren zu komischen Vorgaben von Verlagen, z.B. Registerhaltigkeit in Layouts die dafür nicht gemacht sind …
After lunch @fiee and @d2887 presented the #TeXConTeXt based data sheet workflow they use at WIWA including some additional tooling which simplfies debugging and avoiding mistakes.
This presentation included nice examples showing the mechanisms #LuaMetaTeX (and #LuaTeX) provide to create macros using Lua as well as the internal JSON parser.
Marei
Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)
ConTeXt group
mproehl