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samcarter

Package of the day: [getmap](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/getmap)

Tejas Shetty replying to barbara beeton

thanks

निरंजन replying to barbara beeton

Thanks.

barbara beeton replying to Tejas Shetty

(Sorry to be so late answering this.)  I know of only one talk from last year that didn't make it to youtube; the failure was the result of technical difficulties.  (For the talk at the originally scheduled time, the slides were missing, and somehow the recording of the talk was botched, so the two couldn't be combined.)  This is not typical.  The only other event from last year's conference that isn't available on youtube was the presentation at the RIT Cary Collection.  I don't know of any particular sessions that might be excluded from youtube this year, but based on last year, if you want to watch the tours, it's probably a good idea to try to see them at the scheduled time.

barbara beeton replying to निरंजन

There's a list of new packages added to CTAN in every issue of TUGboat -- "The treasure chest".  Links at https://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/listtitle.html#treasurechest  starting with 1998.

निरंजन replying to joulev

That's so cool! Thanks for informing :)

joulev replying to samcarter

(You don't make your email address public, but) if you had an email address in the beginning of tikzducks.pdf like many other package authors, having "You can contact the author at samcarter@duck.com" would look really consistent.  
  
![blob](/image?hash=924d692db40e783bf8e40a57f7e7bf4321f1a697d8eade29e43236350f2ce159)

samcarter replying to joulev

I already had a look, but for now one needs the app and it does not seem to work from the browser. tikz@duck would be cool :)

joulev

![blob](/image?hash=d4e78c8027670a8aacd7a69118181b174114be802da41759d7fdb5dacfbb6e0e)  
  
Privacy-related issues aside, having a @duck.com email address would be really cool for a `tikzducks` user I think :)

samcarter

Does anybody know if there is a relationship diagram for pdf viewer? E.g. to see which viewer use the same libraries?

samcarter

Package of the day: [stampinclude](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/stampinclude)

samcarter replying to Skillmon

:thumbsup:

Skillmon replying to samcarter

made the edit.

samcarter replying to Skillmon

personally I  think `log10(s)` is easiest to read

Skillmon

@samcarter just realised, in our [about page](https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=716) we give the following formula for the number of stars one can give: `n=int(log(10,s)+1)`, I think in most programming languages the arguments for `log` should be swapped. Either that, or we give a more verbose version like `log10(s)` or `log(s, base=10)`.

samcarter replying to Tejas Shetty

Last year pretty much all of them were posted on youtube (the exception if the speaker declines). Maybe @barbara knows more?

Tejas Shetty

How would one know which ones would be available on youtube? I am asking as all the talks are pretty late in the night for me.

samcarter

The schedule for TUG 2021 is online:  
  
https://tug.org/tug2021/sched.html  
  
(registration is free and allows to participate via zoom, but most talks will probably also become available via youtube)

samcarter

Package of the day: [circuitikz](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/circuitikz)

निरंजन replying to Joseph Wright

Nothing actually. I just wanted to browse through the chronology of publication of the packages known to me.

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Thanks. That's great :)

Joseph Wright replying to निरंजन

What's the driving force here?

samcarter replying to निरंजन

If timetravel back to 2001 is enough, you could go trough the archive of the announcement mailing list https://lists.dante.de/pipermail/ctan-ann/2001-August/date.html

निरंजन replying to samcarter

Publication

samcarter replying to निरंजन

Chronological with regard to publication or update?

CarLaTeX replying to निरंजन

Maybe with some option of `tlmgr info`...

निरंजन

Is there any way to see CTAN-packages in the chronological order?

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

Not the first time she's that fast: https://topanswers.xyz/transcript?room=347&id=106772&year=2021&month=7#c106772

samcarter replying to निरंजन

yes :)

निरंजन replying to samcarter

It is just a two-days-old baby :smile:

A very young member in the community.

samcarter

Package of the day: [tonevalue](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/tonevalue)

samcarter

Some cool animations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z4qRhpBIyA

samcarter

Package of the day: [dancers](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/dancers)

CarLaTeX replying to Tejas Shetty

We have a lot of funny names!

Tejas Shetty replying to samcarter

my bet is peacock

Jairo A. del Rio

![Captura de pantalla de 2021-07-25 11-30-30.png](/image?hash=e99a46b878d129712a95c78eb705ccc36dbc0e4240f4f6b8e2a420f84ae3df01)

Jairo A. del Rio replying to samcarter

It works in a rather suboptimal way when loaded via ConTeXt

samcarter

Package of the day: [bbcard](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/bbcard)

samcarter replying to CarLaTeX

My bet is "cuckoo"

CarLaTeX replying to Skillmon

I bet goldfinch

Skillmon replying to samcarter

We should place bets: I bet his next program will be called pigeon.

CarLaTeX replying to samcarter

you're right :D

samcarter replying to निरंजन

I don't think it is necessary to read the manual or run the program to know that is a true Paulo masterpiece: the bird name is enough to know this :)

निरंजन replying to CarLaTeX

Quite likely! The program on terminal outputs a very cool logo like arara. That logo reminded me of him only.

CarLaTeX replying to निरंजन

I think Paulo Cereda has a hand in it

निरंजन replying to samcarter

The manual is so cool!

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

Hmm, okay. Thanks

Skillmon replying to निरंजन

They are certainly not package design level code. But as I said, things sometimes get blurry. I myself have a few packages which provide CamelCase macros for user interfaces.

samcarter

"Package" of the day: [albatross](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/albatross)

निरंजन replying to Skillmon

but are `\makeatletter`, `\makeatother` document level commands?