"Fihrist" [https://codeberg.org/ajcain/fihrist] is a console library+bibliography manager, which I wrote for my own use, and which I have made available in the (probably forlorn) hope that others might find it useful.

It aims at (1) speed, being entirely keyboard driven (Emacs-style keybindings), (2) simple integration into build scripts (e.g. exporting required metadata from the command line), and (3) bibliographic consistency.

The UI needs polishing, and the documentation is incomplete (although there is a tutorial/demonstration), but the core functionality is there and I use it to generate automatically Bib(La)TeX files for my books and articles.

It is named after the ‘Kitāb al-Fihrist’ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Fihrist], a 10th-century catalogue compiled by Ibn an-Nadīm [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Nadim].

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#bibliography #citation #terminal

New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French.

Here's a link: https://store.falseknees.com/collections/art-prints/products/a-few-birds-of-canada

I made a edition of Edward Gibbon’s ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ as a phone/tablet-sized PDF: https://archive.org/details/gibbon_declineandfall (3863 pages!)

LuaLaTeX source code: https://codeberg.org/ajcain/gibbon_declineandfall

The style uses the interfaces created by the LaTeX tagging project, so (at least in theory), it is an accessible #TaggedPDF.

The font is @mc_wiki’s beautiful Garamontio.

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#TeXLaTeX #typography #history #literature #RomanHistory

😂 So, we just went into a small restaurant that only has about eight tables. Something seemed a bit off. The host came up to us and said they had a momentary power outage, and even though the power had come back on, the Wifi didn't, which means their ordering/payment system was off line, so they couldn't seat anyone.

I said, "What if I paid in cash?"

"We can't open the cash drawer."

"What if I paid the exact amount?"

"We still can't place orders. We can't communicate with the kitchen."

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#foot 1.27.0 is out! 🥳

https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/releases/tag/1.27.0

Foot is a minimalistish, performant and low-latency Wayland-only terminal emulator.