[ Home | Articles | Account | People | Projects | FAQ ] Discovered that the Texinfo command summary and reference card had been missing about a half-dozen commands for years. Amazing what automated checks against the actual implementation can turn up. Now if only we could get it together to do the same for the xetex, pdftex, latex manuals ...
Edited an article by Andrew Hwang (thanks Andy!) for the next TUGboat about use of LaTeX at Distributed Proofreaders (for Project Gutenberg). Neat. I tried to get involved with this a few years ago; happily, looks like the infrastructure has developed considerably since then.
Made TUGboat 30:3, the EuroTeX'09 proceedings, publicly available online, the year having duly passed. Printed copies are available through the TUG store.
Rebuilt and updated the online glibc manual for the latest release (2.13). Hope it still works.
After too many years and one failed attempt, I committed a new version of texinfo.tex to Texinfo CVS which allows breaking within @uref. Hopefully this time it will work.
Our (Oleg and me) previous attempt used \scantokens to make active the special characters at which we want to allow breaks (/&#....). The problem is, \scantokens swallows a following (catcode 5) newline, but does not swallow a catcode 13 (or other) newline. As a result, behavior differed in @example and other environments where newlines have to be active.
This makes the e-TeX \scantokens rather unhelpful in general, unfortunately. Apparently the LuaTeX version eliminates this side effect, though I haven't tried it.
First small update to plain TeX macros for TUGboat in years, thanks to Paul Isambert. (Putting the article title in the footers, as we've been doing for other articles for a couple years now.)
Posted errata for the TeX's 2^5 Anniversary book Dave Walden and I put together for last year's TUG conference. Knuth found most of the mistakes so far :).
Following a report from Reinhard Kotucha, discovered a one-space-character difference in a test filename for dvips, causing the test not to test what it was supposed to, namely quoting of arguments to popen() to avoid injection via malicious filenames. Fortunately the actual quoting was always being done.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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