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Season's greetings from the LaTeX Project https://lnkd.in/eE3v_BzS #LaTeX #Accessibility #PDF
The LaTeX Project Team is a small group of individuals who are responsible for the maintainance and further development of the core of the LaTeX typesetting program as distributed to millions of LaTeX users world wide. LaTeX is free software and its extensions and modules are produced by more than a thousand active developers spread around the world who volunteer in their spare time. While the LaTeX Project Team values extensions made by all these developer it is not responsible for them nor does it maintain them!
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LaTeX Project hat dies direkt geteilt
Season's greetings from the LaTeX Project https://lnkd.in/eE3v_BzS #LaTeX #Accessibility #PDF
Season's greetings from the LaTeX Project https://lnkd.in/eE3v_BzS #LaTeX #Accessibility #PDF
We just distributed the first pre-release for LaTeX 2025-06. It includes some reworking of the mark meachanism for running headers and footers -- offering much broader support also with multiple columns, so that, for example, complex indexes with special running headings are possible. So while it is still a while until this becomes part of the main release, it can already be tested or even used, by processing documents with the development version, which is part of every LaTeX distribution. Of course, the development version also holds the latest updates for accessible PDF generation, so for that alone it is worth trying out. Here is the link to the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/eV_R_JBv
Some historical reflections by Joseph. #LaTeX #LaTeX3 https://lnkd.in/evc9ez89
LaTeX 2024-11-01 has been released We just released a new version of LaTeX with a number of improvements for accessible output and other improvements and corrections. By now it should be available to everybody using TeXLive or MikTeX. Please check out the newsletter to see what has been done. https://lnkd.in/eMTgQ5P4
In August 2024 the LaTeX Project team gave a workshop and presented a paper about accessible PDF made with LaTeX at the ACM Symposium for Document Engineering (DocEng 2024) in San Jose. The short video by Joseph gives a quick summary. https://lnkd.in/eBCcasKa
LaTeX Project hat dies direkt geteilt
This week I got a number of congratulations on linkedin which made me realize that this month the LaTeX Project exists for 35 years. It was established in 1989 in Stanford when Leslie passed on LaTeX development to us. In other words, a small team of developers has maintained and developed LaTeX for millions of users worldwide for quite some time now. And LaTeX is well and kicking --- despite its age its user base is growing rather than shrinking. Let's hope that with the current development work in making LaTeX automatically produce accessible PDF documents we set it up to remain relevant for many more decades to come.
The LaTeX Project team has given a number of presentations about accessibility and related topics this year at various conference, e.g., DEIMS 2024 in Tokyo, TUG 2024 in Prague and recently DocEng 2024 in San Jose. Some of the talks were recorded at the conference and below are links to these videos. DEIMS 2024: https://lnkd.in/eWvG2nCq TUG 2024: https://lnkd.in/eS_8KG_g
This week I got a number of congratulations on linkedin which made me realize that this month the LaTeX Project exists for 35 years. It was established in 1989 in Stanford when Leslie passed on LaTeX development to us. In other words, a small team of developers has maintained and developed LaTeX for millions of users worldwide for quite some time now. And LaTeX is well and kicking --- despite its age its user base is growing rather than shrinking. Let's hope that with the current development work in making LaTeX automatically produce accessible PDF documents we set it up to remain relevant for many more decades to come.
I'm very sad by the news that Alan, our friend and former member of the LaTeX project team, has passed away. During the nineties Alan was very active in the TeX world and we had good times both online and at my home shaping the LaTeX system that is still in use. He will be missed.
𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐉𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐲 - 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟕-𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 We are sorry to let Alan’s friends and colleagues know that he passed away in the early hours of Thursday. Most of you will know, Alan was diagnosed with an aggressive and inoperable brain cancer in November, which was then followed by related complications. He received excellent medical and nursing care over those months, never felt any pain, had lots of visitors, and was with family until the very end. He was alive long enough to know his younger daughter had turned 18 and graduated from high school. So, as utterly unfair things go, it went well. The irony that someone with such a brilliant mind was brought down by brain cancer is not lost on us. We take great comfort in the fact that Alan’s personality never changed; he remained kind, patient, curious about the world, funny, and just a 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 bloody-minded until the end. Even on Tuesday, Alan was enjoying being told about Labour’s predicted victory in the General Election. Alan’s wishes were to have two events after he died, to reflect the two places he called home. We are therefore organising a gathering in Chicago for family & friends in the US and then a larger Celebration of Life, to be held in the UK later in the year (we will look for somewhere that offers live streaming, so people can join from afar). If you would like to be sent details of the Chicago gathering, please use the following email address; david AT dands DOT org DOT uk If you want to know about the Celebration in the UK, please wait … it’ll take us a while to arrange. You know Alan, he hated anything sentimental and was not one for flowers. If you want to mark his passing, then toast him over a nice glass of something whilst donating to a charity he cared about. Here are some choices: • Donate to the music therapy programme that brought him such joy in his final weeks. To do this, click through here https://lnkd.in/gJGuwDYP and in Step 2 say it is in memory of “Alan Jeffrey for music therapy” and in the notifications box put ”Catherine Ross” (don’t worry about the address bit). • Southern Poverty Law Centre: https://lnkd.in/gFVN68nu • American Civil Liberties Union: https://lnkd.in/gPj6Bk-f • Oxfam: https://lnkd.in/gU_HShJD Please understand that we probably won’t have time to reply to individual messages left here, but we will read them and they will bring smiles to our faces. We will let his girls know how loved and admired their Dad was. Very best wishes, Catherine & David (his sister and brother)