#WordWeavers 17. Did you ever receive formal education in creative writing?
No.
However, I received a lot of training in _scientific_ writing, which does help. And I am not just talking about my knowledge of #TeXLaTeX .
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From #CTAN:
Ms_yam submitted an update to the tabular2 package.
Version: 0.4 2026-03-16
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Table typesetting with expl3 syntax
From #CTAN:
Munehiro Yamamoto submitted an update to the spotxcolor package.
Version: 1.4 2026-03-17
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Modern spot color support for the xcolor package
From #CTAN:
Anders Andersen submitted an update to the aspen package.
Version number: 2.1 2026-03-18
License type: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Simple crypto notation in LaTeX
From #CTAN:
Sébastien Gross submitted the svg-animate package.
Version number: 1.0 2026-03-16
License type: agpl3
Summary description: Generate animated SVG diagrams with TikZ
From #CTAN:
Faris Hameed submitted the styleitems package.
Version: 1.0
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: Independent auto-numbered list labels drawn with TikZ
@ericsfraga @mstempl I learned about all three of #Emacs, #TeXLaTeX, and #literateprogramming at the same time in the late 1980s.
The first two always went together, and the third was a dream, a thing only the gods upon Mount Knuth-lympus could do.
Then, much later! Oh happy day! #OrgMode came along, and all three were baked into a warm, delicious pound cake. The tool that decisively allowed me to become a confident Emacs user was to make my config a literate Org document. Inspired by @sacha's example! Having it be a document, structured as an outline, with paragraphs of prose, was just qualitatively different from a monolithic lisp file.
Collapsing outline elements (1) allow fractal movement between a gestalt and detailed view, and (2) impose structure. There is no way to overstate how necessary are both of these for managing even as small a project as my ... HOLY SHIT, I JUST LOOKED, and my config is more than 1,800 lines of code!
Okay, point proved
Für den LaTeX Einsteiger-Kurs an der @vhsdresden am **Dienstag, 21.4. ab 17 Uhr** in #Dresden sind noch Plätze frei.
Der Kurs ist ideal, wenn man am Donnerstag Abend zum #texlatexMeetupDresden keine Zeit hat, oder sich einfach etwas mehr Zeit für den Einstieg nehmen will.
LaTeX et la plume
Jürgen Hubert
DKZ.2R
TeX Users Group
James Endres Howell
fluggs 🍪