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<td> Jun23 news: new TUGboat issue(s), conferences, TLC3,
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<td> Sun, 4 Jun 2023 00:38:35 +0200</td>
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Dear TeXers<br>
<br>
A couple days ago I got a new issue of TUGboat, online here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents44-1.html">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents44-1.html</a><br>
Fascinating reading. An interesting coincidence: this issue has
several<br>
papers on the history of typesetting: a conversation between
Matthew<br>
Carter and Frank Romano, an extensive study on the prehistory of
digital<br>
fonts by Jacques Andr\'e, a look into the history and future of
LaTeX by<br>
Frank Mittelbach, and discussion of the state of ConTeXt by Hans
Hagen,<br>
as well as the musings at the Museum of Printing by Barbara
Beeton.<br>
There are also many interesting papers on all things TeXnical,
book<br>
reviews, and many others.<br>
<br>
As usual, this means that the previous issue of TUGboat is open
for<br>
the general public - see<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents43-3.html">https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents43-3.html</a>.<br>
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The summer is traditionally a time for conferences:<br>
the DANTE AGM on July 13
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2023/">https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2023/</a>),<br>
then TUG'23 on July 14-16 (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2023/">https://tug.org/tug2023/</a>),<br>
both in Bonn, Germany,<br>
and then the ConTeXt meeting in Sib\v{r}ina, Czech Republic, Sept.
10-16<br>
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2023">http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2023</a>).<br>
<br>
John D Lamb has reviewed The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition,
available<br>
at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb137reviews-mittelbach-tlc.html">https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb137reviews-mittelbach-tlc.html</a>.<br>
There is a discount for this book if purchased through the link<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/books">https://tug.org/books</a>.<br>
<br>
Many in the TeX community are discussing the use of large language<br>
models (LLMs). It is interesting that these models can produce
passable<br>
TeX code. For example, when asked to write TeX code for the sum of<br>
geometric progression, ChatGPT gave<br>
\[ S = \frac{{a(1 - r<br>
n)}}{{1 - r}} \]. It also gave \[ e<br>
{i\theta} = \cos(\theta) + i\sin(\theta) \]<br>
when asked to show the Euler formula.<br>
<br>
An interesting take by Dan Nexon on LLMs in humanities can be
found here:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/chatgpt-and-the-classroom">https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/chatgpt-and-the-classroom</a>.<br>
Those of us who are teaching (and reading students' homework<br>
assignments) might heed this discussion.<br>
<br>
Summer is the time for vacations. I wish those of us who take the
time<br>
for travel, fun and relaxation a good time, and recharging - and<br>
interesting meetings to those of us who decided to spend some time
in<br>
TeX and other conferences.<br>
<br>
New CTAN packages in May:<br>
- adobeornaments, using ornaments in Adobe Fonts with LuaLaTeX or
XeLaTeX;<br>
- codedescribe, a minimalist set of commands (expl3-based) to
describe<br>
document and class-level commands/functions;<br>
- counterz, additional tools for counters;<br>
- glossaries-norsk, Norsk Bokm\aa{}l language module for the
glossaries<br>
package;<br>
- huffman, drawing binary Huffman trees with MetaPost and METAOBJ;<br>
- movement-arrows, drawing movement arrows on linguistic example
sentences;<br>
- ptlatexcommands, a package that translates common LaTeX commands<br>
to Portuguese;<br>
- starray, a structured array (of properties) based on expl3;<br>
- sympycalc, work with SymPy and PyLuaTeX;<br>
- tikz2d-fr, work with some 2D TikZ's command (french);<br>
- tikz3d-fr, work with some 3D figures;<br>
- unicode-math-input, allow entering Unicode symbols in math
formulas;<br>
- unifront, give notes a unique front page for every chapter and
section.<br>
<br>
Happy TeXing,<br>
Boris Veytsman, TUG President<br>
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