I’m using MathJaX to display the formulae in this post because I need some practice with using it, so please excuse this indulgence. Do give comments or feedback on whether you are able to read everything. Again, you can right-click…
About 10 years ago, when working freelance, I produced some diagrams which mapped LaTeX page layout parameters to the equivalent descriptions used by regular book designers. I’ve redrawn everything into SVG using the excellent open-source vector drawing software Inkscape. I’ve…
I just discovered a fascinating project, a feature-length documentary film centered around the Linotype typecasting machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler in 1886. View a trailer and read more about it here Linotype: The Film. To me, this reflects the sentiment…
About a year ago I was Googling for information on how I could typeset my Arabic study notes (I’d been studying Arabic in my spare time for a few years). During my searches I came across a couple of videos…
It is, in some ways, a deep irony that the community which spawned the web (i.e., physicists and mathematicians) should, until recently, have had such a hard time using the web to fluently and easily communicate in the natural language…