Life before TeX
A colleague at work (thanks Steve!) e-mailed me a link to a marvellous collection of photographs showing typesetting, 1970s style. Enjoy them here.
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 4)
Time for a summary and review My objective in writing this set of tutorials is to equip you with the basic information you need to create a truly minimal LuaTeX installation (running under Windows) for the purposes of experimenting with…
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 3)
In Parts 1, 2 and 2a I made reference to such things as “environment variables” and a file called texmf.cnf. I this section of the tutorial I will try to bring these concepts together and get down to some practical…
Comments are now enabled
Having started to feel comfortable with WordPress I have enabled comments on nearly all the published posts, and for future posts too — at least until the spam gets to me! Comments are moderated so will not appear until approved…
How to browse the TeX Live repository with TortoiseSVN
TeX Live is a comprehensive TeX distribution which includes a huge collection of TeX packages, fonts, tools, utilities and binaries for Unix, GNU/Linux and Windows. You can browse the master TeX Live repository online using TortoiseSVN. Note that TortoiseSVN is…
A minimal LuaTeX setup on Windows (Part 2a)
I omitted an important point in the previous post which I should include before discussing installation of LuaTeX. I would like to briefly mention something called the TeX Directory Structure (TDS). Quoting from the TDS web page: TeX is a…