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Finally installed biber in TeX Live, that is, the precompiled binaries made by the authors (with Par::Packer, which I hadn't known about before; very cool). We'll see how many other TL builders want to try ...

In order to do the equivalent of "git pull --dry-run" (which doesn't exist as such) --

git fetch git diff master origin/master

(From Jim Meyering, thanks Jim. He admits "There's probably a much easier way".)

Belatedly learned that Randy Kobes passed away last September. Apparently the university is keeping his machine up, since the CTAN and GNU redirectors have been cruising happily along. Started reimplementing them elsewhere now, though ...

dvips work for a change: hopefully fixed a bug that was causing nan in output with eepic figures (reported by Stefan Moser). Squaring a not-so-big int can easily give a negative number :). I guess it was somehow hidden before (bug was not in any version until 2010) by a final cast of the result to float -- switched to double to eliminate warnings, I guess. One thing always leads to another ...
TUG 2011 will be held in Kerala, India, from October 19–21, 2011, hosted by River Valley Technologies. More when we know more ...

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.

16 Feb 2011 (updated 16 Feb 2011 at 17:05 UTC) »

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.

9 Feb 2011 (updated 9 Feb 2011 at 20:51 UTC) »

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.

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