Knuth Volume 4 and Google talk
The first 30% of Donald Knuth's long awaited Volume 4 of The Art of Computer Programming is available in 5 small pieces: http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0321637135
Here is a video of Knuth's March 16, 2009 visit to Google to discuss the interactions between faith and science http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPpk-1btGZk
CSI Typeface
A valuable poster was put up for auction, but was found to be a phony. The tip-off was the typography.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/16/1978-sex-pistols-pos.html
http://www.typophile.com/node/58945
GuIT print journal
Our Italian friends have been busy, and published two print issues of ArsTeXnica this year. http://www.guit.sssup.it/
Greek TeX Journal
We are pleased to tell you that we have a new issue of Eutypon. Its contents are here:
http://www.eutypon.gr/eutypon/e-cont-22-23.html
Apostolos Syropoulos
One million LaTeX math formulas
Springer, one of the largest scientific publishers, announces the launch of http://LaTeXSearch.com, a free online service which makes over 1 million LaTeX equations discoverable. LaTeXSearch.com lets users search for LaTeX code in one of three ways:
1) LaTeX Search: Directly typing an equation, in LaTeX, which they would like to find
2) Article title search: Where a user searches against all articles that contain LaTeX
3) Digital Object Identifier (DOI) search: For when a user knows which article they would like to see equations from.
LaTeXSearch.com is currently powered by a collection of over 120,000 peer- reviewed articles published by Springer, such as Inventiones Mathematicae, Acta Mathematica, and Mathematical Programming. One of the challenges facing readers of mathematics-intensive journals is that they have no way to access the code that generated the equations. LaTeXSearch.com solves this problem by giving users multiple ways to find equations and, with one click, access the LaTeX code that generated those equations.
Recognizing that LaTeX's flexibility means users might type the same equation in multiple different ways, Springer invested over eight months in engineering a process that normalizes LaTeX equations. This way, equations that are similar (or even exactly the same but written slightly different) will also appear under the "Similar Results" tab. This ability to provide a comprehensive set of results is unique to LaTeXSearch.com and will provide users with the most relevant results possible.
LaTeXSearch.com is actively soliciting the participation of other publishers and Open Access sources of LaTeX documents to make their equations searchable as well.
Asian Journal of TeX
I am pleased to announce that all the articles in The Asian Journal of TeX, Volume 3 are available to download from the following URL:
http://ajt.ktug.kr/2009/volume3.html
It is notable that this volume contains TeX articles written in three different languages, Korean, Japanese, and English.
Jin-Hwan Cho.
Second Romanian TeX Conference
On September 8–9, 2010, there will be held, at Targu-Mures (Romania), the second Transylvania TeX Conference. The conference is organized by Paul Blaga, Sandor Horvath and Zoltan Kasa. The organizing institutions are the "Petru Maior" University and the "Sapientia" University from Targu-Mures and the "Babes-Bolyai" University from Cluj Napoca. Details about the program will be announced soon.