<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi<div><br></div><div>Nelson Beebe, one of the elders of the TeX community, has kindly agreed to answer questions on CTAN and TeX Live at tomorrow's TeX Hour. This session will be recorded. The meeting is Thursday 22 April, 6:30 to 7:30pm UK time. The time now in the UK is at <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+time" target="_blank">https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+time</a>. The zoom link for the meeting is</div><div><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09</a><br><br></div><div>Nelson's involvement with TeX goes back to the 1970s. He's a past president of TUG (1990-91) and maintainer of the Utah CTAN node. He tests and compiles TeX Live for many platforms. If you have a question for Nelson and can't attend please reply to this message (on list or just to me as you prefer).<br><br>The Comprehensive TeX Archive CTAN was established in 1992, just a year after the preprint arXiv. In 1993 the Netherlands TeX Group NTG started work on their CD-ROM Tex distribution for MS-DOS. In 1996 the TeX Live distribution of TeX was established. CTAN and TeX Live have been central to the success of TeX over the past 25 years. The 2021 release of TeX Live was earlier this month.<br><br>Some humble words of thanks. George Greenwade (deceased 2003) and Sebastian Rahtz (deceased 2016) saw something that needed to be done, and contributed much time and energy to doing it. We are grateful to them and many others, both alive and no longer living.<br><br>The TeX Hour videos for last week (18 April 2021) are</div><div><br></div><div>Horizontal and vertical desktops: <a href="https://y2u.be/XiWS4hrxDDU" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/XiWS4hrxDDU</a><br></div><div>Old-timers talk about DEC VMS and Alpha: <a href="https://y2u.be/CK1ISbOlkPg" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/CK1ISbOlkPg</a><br></div><div>DEC, Brian Reid, Leslie Lamport, Scribe and LaTeX: <a href="https://y2u.be/eRh2aEEnwNo" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/eRh2aEEnwNo</a><br></div><div>Because extensible, early LaTeX did well: <a href="https://y2u.be/S5dbz3O4qbU" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/S5dbz3O4qbU</a><br></div><div>Journal production today adds errors - why?: <a href="https://y2u.be/f5ez39q1LyM" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/f5ez39q1LyM</a><br></div><div>The Open University astrophysics books: <a href="https://y2u.be/5WDWbL74nNo" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/5WDWbL74nNo</a><br></div><div>Shared community awareness of forces: <a href="https://y2u.be/3Un93w09uS0" target="_blank">https://y2u.be/3Un93w09uS0</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The TeX Hour has a monthly cycle for its topics.<br></div><div><br>First Thursday: Beginners<br>Second Thursday: Accessibility<br>Third Thursday: Conversion (eg LaTeX to PDF, LaTeX to HTML, markdown to LaTeX)<br>Fourth Thursday: Durable Documents (same outputs give same input across space and time)<br>Fifth Thursday: Experiments and Exploration.<br></div><div><br></div><div>You'll find all 56 of the TeX Hour videos at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw1FZfIX1w7h6fajdTgUOyJ6GYh82b-XQ" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw1FZfIX1w7h6fajdTgUOyJ6GYh82b-XQ</a></div><div><br></div><div>with best regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jonathan</div><div><a href="https://jfine2358.github.io/">https://jfine2358.github.io/</a><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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