Jun22 TUG news: Knuth's music, conferences, tugboat, acm, ctan
C V Radhakrishnan <[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jun 2022 07:21:10 +0530
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============7877911852446030183== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------HmQ0UVaMtdzeuvLaD0WURRQV" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------HmQ0UVaMtdzeuvLaD0WURRQV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Jun22 TUG news: Knuth's music, conferences, tugboat, acm, ctan Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 23:37:23 +0200 From: TeX Users Group <[email protected]> Dear TeXers, One of the prized items in my collection is the program of the world premiere of DEK's Fantasia Apocalyptica, his musical interpretation of the Book of Revelation. It was performed on the occasion of Knuth's 80th birthday at Studio Acusticum in Pite\aa, Sweden by Jan Overduin on Wednesday, 10 January 2018. The description of Fantasia Apocalyptica can be found here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html. The page includes Knuth's musings, scores, and links to the audio and video files. One of the most popular images from the Book of Revelation is four horsemen in Chapter 6. The interpretation of the first horseman is not universally agreed upon, but many people associate him with Pestilence. The other three are named more explicitly: they are War, Famine and Death. It seems that since 2018 we have seen world pestilence and a European war. Experts worry about at least local famines caused by this war and the consequent disruption of the export of wheat. Of course, these events increase the toll of death among us. While the scale of these calamities is relatively limited compared to the end of world, each individual death is a universal tragedy, and even the "limited" scale boggles the mind. Knuth writes that the Book of Revelation is, in his opinion, "totally mystical and spiritual rather than literal or prophetical. It probably was written to provide an underground movement (early Christianity) with some coded messages of hope." The last part is very important. Indeed the message we should extract from it and from the world is hope. One of the things that make me hopeful is that we continue to work and create even in these hard times. I am happy to report that the Polish TeX Group GUST after a long hiatus announces BachoTeX to be held September 21--25, see https://gust.org.pl/bachotex/2022-en. At the last BachoTeX in 2019 we helped a group of Ukrainian students to attend. I hope we can do it again. Speaking of conferences, the deadline for submissions to our flagship meeting, TUG 2022, is close: June 15. Please do not forget to register for the conference. I also strongly encourage you to submit a talk. As in the two previous years, the conference is virtual and free. See all the details at https://tug.org/tug2022/. Please note that this conference will be accompanied by the Annual General Meeting of TUG. Other important meetings are the DANTE meeting 2022, Otto-von-Guericke-Universit\"at, Magdeburg, Germany, June 23-25, https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2022, and the 16th ConTeXt Meeting, Dreifelden, Germany, Sept. 12-18, 2022, https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/. In other news, TUGboat 43:1 has been mailed to current TUG members. Among its papers are a discussion of the Markdown language, tutorials on l3build and tikz-cd, a review of the long-expected second edition of a LaTeX beginner's book by Stefan Kottwitz, and much more. Following our policy, TUGboat issue 42:3 is now open for the general public (the current issue is available for TUG members only). Speaking of free journals, ACM has opened its journal archives for 1951--2000; see the discussion here: https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/. New CTAN packages in May (https://ctan.org/pkg): - beamerthemeamurmaple, a new modern beamer theme; - chinesechess, typeset Chinese chess with l3draw; - fixdif, macros for typesetting differential operators; - mathsemantics, semantic math commands in LaTeX - prettytok, prettyprint token lists; - sidenotesplus, place referenced notes, alerts, figures and tables; - simpleicons, simple icons for LaTeX; - srbtiks, the STIX2 font for Serbian and Macedonian; - symbats3, macros to use the Symbats3 dingbats fonts; - thermodynamics, macros for multicomponent thermodynamics documents. Happy TeXing! -Boris Veytsman (TUG President) --------------HmQ0UVaMtdzeuvLaD0WURRQV Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <html data-lt-installed="true"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <div class="moz-forward-container"> <table class="moz-email-headers-table" width="613" height="92" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>Jun22 TUG news: Knuth's music, conferences, tugboat, acm, ctan</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Thu, 2 Jun 2022 23:37:23 +0200</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>TeX Users Group <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:[email protected]"><[email protected]></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT"><br> </th> <td><br> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br> Dear TeXers,<br> <br> One of the prized items in my collection is the program of the world<br> premiere of DEK's Fantasia Apocalyptica, his musical interpretation of<br> the Book of Revelation. It was performed on the occasion of Knuth's<br> 80th birthday at Studio Acusticum in Pite\aa, Sweden by Jan Overduin on<br> Wednesday, 10 January 2018. The description of Fantasia Apocalyptica<br> can be found here:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html">https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fant.html</a>. The page<br> includes Knuth's musings, scores, and links to the audio and video<br> files.<br> <br> One of the most popular images from the Book of Revelation is four<br> horsemen in Chapter 6. The interpretation of the first horseman is not<br> universally agreed upon, but many people associate him with<br> Pestilence. The other three are named more explicitly: they are War,<br> Famine and Death. It seems that since 2018 we have seen world<br> pestilence and a European war. Experts worry about at least local<br> famines caused by this war and the consequent disruption of the export<br> of wheat. Of course, these events increase the toll of death among<br> us. While the scale of these calamities is relatively limited<br> compared to the end of world, each individual death is a universal<br> tragedy, and even the "limited" scale boggles the mind.<br> <br> Knuth writes that the Book of Revelation is, in his opinion, "totally<br> mystical and spiritual rather than literal or prophetical. It probably<br> was written to provide an underground movement (early Christianity)<br> with some coded messages of hope." The last part is very important.<br> Indeed the message we should extract from it and from the world is<br> hope.<br> <br> One of the things that make me hopeful is that we continue to work and<br> create even in these hard times. I am happy to report that the<br> Polish TeX Group GUST after a long hiatus announces BachoTeX to be held<br> September 21--25, see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gust.org.pl/bachotex/2022-en">https://gust.org.pl/bachotex/2022-en</a>. At the last<br> BachoTeX in 2019 we helped a group of Ukrainian students to attend. I<br> hope we can do it again.<br> <br> Speaking of conferences, the deadline for submissions to our flagship<br> meeting, TUG 2022, is close: June 15. Please do not forget to register<br> for the conference. I also strongly encourage you to submit a talk. As<br> in the two previous years, the conference is virtual and free. See all<br> the details at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org/tug2022/">https://tug.org/tug2022/</a>. Please note that this<br> conference will be accompanied by the Annual General Meeting of TUG.<br> <br> Other important meetings are the DANTE meeting 2022,<br> Otto-von-Guericke-Universit\"at, Magdeburg, Germany, June 23-25,<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2022">https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2022</a>,<br> and the 16th ConTeXt Meeting,<br> Dreifelden, Germany, Sept. 12-18, 2022,<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/">https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2022/</a>.<br> <br> In other news, TUGboat 43:1 has been mailed to current TUG members.<br> Among its papers are a discussion of the Markdown language, tutorials on<br> l3build and tikz-cd, a review of the long-expected second edition of a<br> LaTeX beginner's book by Stefan Kottwitz, and much more. Following our<br> policy, TUGboat issue 42:3 is now open for the general public (the<br> current issue is available for TUG members only).<br> <br> Speaking of free journals, ACM has opened its journal archives for<br> 1951--2000; see the discussion here:<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/">https://associationsnow.com/2022/05/the-way-things-were-why-open-access-to-the-acm-digital-library-matters/</a>.<br> <br> New CTAN packages in May (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://ctan.org/pkg">https://ctan.org/pkg</a>):<br> - beamerthemeamurmaple, a new modern beamer theme;<br> - chinesechess, typeset Chinese chess with l3draw;<br> - fixdif, macros for typesetting differential operators;<br> - mathsemantics, semantic math commands in LaTeX<br> - prettytok, prettyprint token lists;<br> - sidenotesplus, place referenced notes, alerts, figures and tables;<br> - simpleicons, simple icons for LaTeX;<br> - srbtiks, the STIX2 font for Serbian and Macedonian;<br> - symbats3, macros to use the Symbats3 dingbats fonts;<br> - thermodynamics, macros for multicomponent thermodynamics documents.<br> <br> Happy TeXing!<br> <br> -Boris Veytsman (TUG President)<br> </div> </body> <lt-container></lt-container> </html> --------------HmQ0UVaMtdzeuvLaD0WURRQV-- --===============7877911852446030183== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Home: http://www.tug.org.in/ TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq unsubscribe: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tugindia --===============7877911852446030183==--