This site has been dormant since my last post back in December 2016 but, yesterday, I had to make some upgrades, including the PHP version used on this site. Unfortunately, those upgrades broke a few things—which I fixed just to…

Introduction In this short article I share the results of using LuaTeX’s token library as one way to intermix TeX and MetaPost code. I used LuaTeX 1.0.1 which I compiled from the source code in the experimental branch of the…

Post-publication update: GNU gawk Since publication of the article below, subsequent investigations with a member of the TeX Live team have identified the exact cause of the problem: An outdated version of GNU’s gawk command-line tool (used during compilation). I…

Introduction If you are at all interested in the innards of TeX’s DVI files you might find the following article of some help – a quick post, in the form of a PDF, deriving the values of num = 25400000…

PATGEN: from WEB to C I recently became curious about TeX’s hyphenation patterns and started to read about how they are created – usually using PATGEN though, from what I’ve read, some brave souls do actually hand-craft hyphenation patterns! I…

Long time, no posts! It’s been a very long time since my last post, some 8 months, so I thought it was about time I posted something new. At the moment, I’m currently looking for new contract work (or employment…