Jun23 news: new TUGboat issue(s), conferences, TLC3, GPT, CTAN
CV Radhakrishnan <[email protected]> Sun, 4 Jun 2023 09:54:29 +0530
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============8522255111855365379== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------j52VucM8j0jAdMQ01Xiro094" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------j52VucM8j0jAdMQ01Xiro094 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Jun23 news: new TUGboat issue(s), conferences, TLC3, GPT, CTAN Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2023 00:38:35 +0200 From: TeX Users Group <[email protected]> Dear TeXers A couple days ago I got a new issue of TUGboat, online here: https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents44-1.html Fascinating reading. An interesting coincidence: this issue has several papers on the history of typesetting: a conversation between Matthew Carter and Frank Romano, an extensive study on the prehistory of digital fonts by Jacques Andr\'e, a look into the history and future of LaTeX by Frank Mittelbach, and discussion of the state of ConTeXt by Hans Hagen, as well as the musings at the Museum of Printing by Barbara Beeton. There are also many interesting papers on all things TeXnical, book reviews, and many others. As usual, this means that the previous issue of TUGboat is open for the general public - see https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents43-3.html. The summer is traditionally a time for conferences: the DANTE AGM on July 13 (https://www.dante.de/veranstaltungen/dante2023/), then TUG'23 on July 14-16 (https://tug.org/tug2023/), both in Bonn, Germany, and then the ConTeXt meeting in Sib\v{r}ina, Czech Republic, Sept. 10-16 (http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2023). John D Lamb has reviewed The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, available at https://tug.org/books/reviews/tb137reviews-mittelbach-tlc.html. There is a discount for this book if purchased through the link https://tug.org/books. Many in the TeX community are discussing the use of large language models (LLMs). It is interesting that these models can produce passable TeX code. For example, when asked to write TeX code for the sum of geometric progression, ChatGPT gave \[ S = \frac{{a(1 - r n)}}{{1 - r}} \]. It also gave \[ e {i\theta} = \cos(\theta) + i\sin(\theta) \] when asked to show the Euler formula. An interesting take by Dan Nexon on LLMs in humanities can be found here: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/06/chatgpt-and-the-classroom. Those of us who are teaching (and reading students' homework assignments) might heed this discussion. Summer is the time for vacations. I wish those of us who take the time for travel, fun and relaxation a good time, and recharging - and interesting meetings to those of us who decided to spend some time in TeX and other conferences. New CTAN packages in May: - adobeornaments, using ornaments in Adobe Fonts with LuaLaTeX or XeLaTeX; - codedescribe, a minimalist set of commands (expl3-based) to describe document and class-level commands/functions; - counterz, additional tools for counters; - glossaries-norsk, Norsk Bokm\aa{}l language module for the glossaries package; - huffman, drawing binary Huffman trees with MetaPost and METAOBJ; - movement-arrows, drawing movement arrows on linguistic example sentences; - ptlatexcommands, a package that translates common LaTeX commands to Portuguese; - starray, a structured array (of properties) based on expl3; - sympycalc, work with SymPy and PyLuaTeX; - tikz2d-fr, work with some 2D TikZ's command (french); - tikz3d-fr, work with some 3D figures; - unicode-math-input, allow entering Unicode symbols in math formulas; - unifront, give notes a unique front page for every chapter and section. Happy TeXing, Boris Veytsman, TUG President --------------j52VucM8j0jAdMQ01Xiro094 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <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="645" height="72" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td> Jun23 news: new TUGboat issue(s), conferences, TLC3, GPT, CTAN</td> </tr> <tr> <th valign="BASELINE" nowrap="nowrap" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td> Sun, 4 Jun 2023 00:38:35 +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> </tbody> </table> <br> <br> 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> <br> 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> </div> </body> </html> --------------j52VucM8j0jAdMQ01Xiro094-- --===============8522255111855365379== 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 --===============8522255111855365379==--