Introductions

[Jonathan Fine]

Please use this thread to tell us who you are. When things change, make a whole new post to this thread.

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Jonathan

[Jonathan Fine]

I'm Jonathan Fine. I'm a semi-retired software engineer, and amateur (unpaid) research mathematician. I'm almost a founder member of UK TUG, a past Chair and Secretary of UK TUG, and past Board Member of TUG. My main TeX interest is in pushing boundaries and questioning assumptions. And making it easier to get math onto web pages. And using it to write mathematics.

I used to work at the Open University, as a LaTeX expert. My best successes there were migrating a LaTeX209 system running on unsupported hardware, and producing the styles for books such as Carole Haswell's Transiting Exoplanets.

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cqOKqhfm4ywC&printsec=frontcover

I also learnt something about usability, accessible mathematics, and math on web pages.

I have an old blog at https://jonathanfine.wordpress.com/, which is gradually being transferred to https://jfine2358.github.io/.  You'll find my software stuff, mainly Python, at https://github.com/jfine2358. You'll find my math stuff at https://arxiv.org/.

My email address is jfine2358 (at) gmail (dot) com. I chose 2358 because 2,3,5,8 is the Fibonacci numbers. They're important in my research.

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Jonathan

[Juan Acevedo]

I'm Juan Acevedo, a classicist from Venezuela living in Cambridge since 2001. I started using LaTeX in 2003 because of ArabTeX, and went on to typeset several bilingual publications for the Islamic Texts Society. I was an early adopter of XeTeX—I rarely work on anything that will not have at least some diacritics or non-Latin script, so it made a lot of sense.

I recently got a PhD from the Warburg Institute, with a thesis full of Arabic, Hebrew and Greek—a breeze to do with XeTeX. I have been typesetting books and lots of online booklets for the Matheson Trust now for a number of years.

I recently started teaching LaTeX to my sixteen-year old son (my wife got hooked too, many years ago), and I'm enjoying the experience in quite unexpected ways!

Cheers,

J

[Brent Longborough]

I am Brent Longborough; I live in South Wales.

I've been a LateX user since 1998, with an interval in the early 2000s.

I'm an IT Consultant. I use LaTeX principally to generate beautiful reference documentation for my projects, and, occasionally, when someone is sentenced to Death-by-Powerpoint, beautiful (though functional) presentations.

I occasionally collaborate with others when developing these things. My preferred collaboration tool is a combination of git with either github or bitbucket.

I'm also a fan of tex.stackexchange.com, although in recent years I've been less active there.

Greetings!

[malcolm clark]

I may represent the Land's End 'constituency'. It certainly feels remote down here. I doubt there are many enduring La/TeX users around Cornwall.

I've been 'involved' with TeX for more years than I can remember. I'm a one-time (short-term) President of TUG, one of the (many) founders of ukTUG, and editor of some related conference proceedings and author of a textbook. For a few years I presented a short introduction to LaTeX for postgraduates at KCL. Oddly, when I worked there they weren't interested, but once I had retired they were. My involvement with LaTeX is now purely as a user. I still find it a natural (if somewhat quirky) environment. Why have I come out of the woodwork? I feel some responsibility towards ukTUG. I suspect there are ways it can be revitalised.