Thu 16 Mar: TeX Hour: Lucky Dip?

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

I don't have anything prepared for tomorrow's TeX Hour, so what happens might be a surprise or a disappointment. Any TeX or accessibility topics are particularly welcome.

The TeX Hour is Thursday 16 March 6:30 to 7:30pm GMT.  The Zoom URL is

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09.

with kind regards

Jonathan

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

Tomorrow we look at two new projects in technical typsetteing. They both have production of HTML and accessibile outputs as a central goal.

The TeX Hour is Thursday 23 March 6:30 to 7:30pm GMT.  The Zoom URL is

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09.

UK not yet daylight saving time. Here's the UK time now: https://time.is/UK

The first is Typst, which uses a modern input syntax and a Rust core to create a tool that will be easier to use. I learnt about it from a post to the BlindMath mailing list.

https://github.com/typst/typst

https://libreddit.spike.codes/r/rust/comments/11xpg6e/typst_a_modern_latex_alternative_written_in_rust/

http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/blindmath_nfbnet.org/2023-March/010613.html

The second, if time allows, is my own Unlatex project., where I'll report recent progress and discuss emerging goals and opportunities.

https://github.com/arxtex/unlatex

https://texhour.github.io/2023/03/09/unlatex-texbox-access-tree/

It's a big world and there's plenty of room for multiple projects. The more they share, the better things will be.

wishing you happy LaTeXing, Unlatexing and Typsting

Jonathan