Mastodawn

Norbert Preining Mar 16

Koen Hufkens, PhD Mar 16

Man threatening to leave NATO, and invade member states, demands NATO reciprocity in a war he started. 🤡

The Onion couldn't have done a better job.

Norbert Preining Mar 16

TeX Users Group Mar 16

Congrats to SILICON Director Thomas S. Mullaney for being named UNESCO Chair in Digital Futures!

https://silicon.stanford.edu/

His activity has been reported in TUGboat:
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb45-1/tb139veytsman-face.pdf
https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb46-1/tb142veytsman-face25.pdf
🇺🇳

SILICON – Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Tjeerd Royaards Mar 13

What we get upset about. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#GasPrices #oil #OilPrices #Iran

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Show thread

Marei Mar 13

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 ;-)

@context #DANTE2026

Norbert Preining Mar 13

Max Iorsh Feb 26

The first real FontForge plugin has landed! Just five years after the introduction of plugin framework, the Variable Font Plugin by @[email protected] is here. Grab your free copy at https://pypi.org/project/fontforge-variable-font/

#FontForge #opensource #typography

Norbert Preining Mar 12

Work with a great team, do good things for research, what better job can there be?! #arXiv @arXiv
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678/chief-executive-officer/

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678

arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

The Chronicle of Higher Education Jobs

Norbert Preining Mar 12

Sharing is caring - and who doesn't care for all the great things coming out of #arXiv !!! So please, go ahead and contribute to Cornell 's Gift Day and arXiv
https://givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/arxiv @arXiv

Give to arXiv | Cornell Giving Day

I’m ready to support arXiv on March 12, 2026 during Cornell Giving Day. Learn more about arXiv

Norbert Preining Mar 4

taz Mar 4

Zentralrat bejubelt Irankrieg: Einfach mal die Klappe halten
https://taz.de/Zentralrat-bejubelt-Irankrieg/!6159480/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Gepostet in Politik @politik-taz_de

Zentralrat bejubelt Irankrieg: Einfach mal die Klappe halten

Der Zentralrat der Juden bejubelt den amerikanisch-israelischen Krieg gegen Iran. Seine Stellungnahme hätte er dem israelischen Botschafter überlassen sollen.

TAZ Verlags- und Vertriebs GmbH

Norbert Preining Mar 1

TeX Live 2026 is released - mirror updates are running! #TeXlive https://www.preining.info/blog/2026/03/tex-live-2026-released/

TeX Live 2026 released | There and back again

Get the Champagne ready, we have released the final images of TeX Live 2026. Nothing spectacularly new in this version, but improvements across that bank, and a new player: `xdvipsk`, an extended dvips with support for more image formats and (with LuaTeX) OpenType and TrueType fonts. Things I was very…

There and back again

Norbert Preining Feb 27

Remembering Joe Halpern https://blog.arxiv.org/2026/02/27/remembering-joe-halpern/ #arXiv @arXiv

SILICON – Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678

Give to arXiv | Cornell Giving Day

Zentralrat bejubelt Irankrieg: Einfach mal die Klappe halten

TeX Live 2026 released | There and back again

Remembering Joe Halpern – arXiv blog