[Tugindia] Fwd: [texhax] In memoriam: Jean-Pierre Drucbert

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From: Radhakrishnan CV <cvr at river-valley.org>
Sent: Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:22:35 
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Subject: [Tugindia] Fwd: [texhax] In memoriam: Jean-Pierre Drucbert
From: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org>

Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:44 AM

Subject: [texhax] In memoriam: Jean-Pierre Drucbert

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Denis Bitouz\'e of GUT asked me to post this sad news.

(Sorry if my mailer messed up the accents.)





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GUTenberg, the French TeX user group, has just learnt with great sadness

that Jean-Pierre F. Drucbert passed away in March 2009. Jean-Pierre has

written notable LaTeX packages, including minitoc and xr; a complete

list can be found at



  http://www.ctan.org/author/drucbert



We asked some colleagues of Jean-Pierre about his wishes concerning his

packages, but they don't know. Their license (LPPL) allows anybody of

good will to undertake their development.



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Born in Lille (France) in 1947, Jean-Pierre Drucbert earned a degree in

1970 in Engineering at the National School of Aeronautics and Space

("舎cole Nationale Sup朱rieure de l'A朱ronautique et de l'Espace").



After majoring in computer science, he joined the "Centre d'舎tudes et de

Recherches de Toulouse" (now ONERA) as a systems engineer, mainly in the

field of IT applied to scientific computing. Jean-Pierre installed and

administered several generations of computers (including an Iris 80 and

a Cray XMP), particularly for scheduling of computational jobs.

Moreover, he assured IT support to hundreds of users scientists,

especially in the field of parallel computing.



Meanwhile, fascinated by the sciences of language and typography,

Jean-Pierre showed an early interest in TeX and LaTeX.  He compiled,

installed and configured these on different systems, from Multics to

Linux through various proprietary Unix systems. He offered to ONERA

users a very complete LaTeX manual, including French translations of

many packages' documentation. For more than twenty years, he also

contributed to the LaTeX community by developing packages, a list of

which is at http://www.ctan.org/author/drucbert.

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--

Denis Bitouz朱, on behalf of GUTenberg

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