Duck art: https://www.reddit.com/r/DiWHYNOT/comments/w9ma0p/my_wife_painted_a_van_gogh_duck/
There's an article by Chuck Bigelow in TUGboat, "Notes on typeface protection", a long time ago: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb07-3/tb16bigelow.pdf
Should be pretty simple to set up a filter in your mail program, but none that I'm aware of.
I actually auto-upgrade entire TeX Live per login and save the log of the upgrade script in a file. This way I stay up-to-date with the recent changes.
Nice. Is there any option to only subscribe for new packages and not updates?
True, I am trying to avoid these giants. Microsoft, Google, X,, Meta, Amazon. Not easy to quit completely, but baby steps. ~~Mastodon~~ Frediverse is a ray of hope. Let's see where it goes.
You're welcome! Indeed X is not a good place to attend, except for few users :D
Thank you!! I am not on x, but I follow them on Mastodon and they have mentioned me there.
If these humans are too slow, the beavers have to do it themselves! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site
Woohoo!! It is thereeee :) :) I checked literally five minutes ago and it wasn't there. Yayy!
Well.. it is making me anxious. :joy: The software I released was on my mind for around 3 years. Now it's live, but it's invisible. But yeah, it's a part and parcel of the game! :smile:
Abut an hour on GH Actions - a bit longer if I have to do it on my laptop (2020 i7 MacBook Pro)
Now the same problem is happening to my package. I released it the day before yesterday. The files are visible in the archive, but the page isn't visible. Hopefully it fixes soon.
I think that would be a fish though for the cat. TeXStudio can easily tempt new users.
I bet the latex2e builds leave enough time to grow the coffee beans first :)
I normally appreciate a bit of compile time for a quick coffee run, but with the tcolorbox doc, I've already drunken my coffee before it is finished :P ``` Transcript written on tcolorbox.log. --------------------------------------------------------- SUCCESS Total: 1383.617 seconds ```
Sorry, my comment was completely misleading. I was talking about the lazy evaluation that is not possible in the case of dim/skip registers (e.g.: https://topanswers.xyz/tex?q=8089#a7707). Your comment regarding `tl`s sounded similar.
Unfortunately, yes. The amount of spam was one of the nuances when I had a publicly listed university email address.
Hahaha he was found by some algorithm. I deleted the email and kept the sender in the spammer list :D
Nonetheless, it's funny that Prof. van Duck got such a mail, shows how good of a job you're doing for that alter ego.
*Disclaimer: This is a description of the usual behaviour of predatory publishers, and not necessarily true for Lupine Publishers* These publishers write to all the researchers they can find that might (or might not) have any expertise or interest in the fields of one of their journals. They usually don't investigate that well (or else they'd have seen that Prof van Duck isn't a real person), and try to convince them to publish an article in one of their journals. Since they are an open access journal they charge high fees (and most universities have subsidies reserved for open access, so the researchers can pay those fees). Usually those fees are necessary to finance the work a serious journal needs to do (review process, editorial process, etc.), but predatory journals more often than not don't invest that money into such processes but keep it for profit. They are the worst of the scientific publishing world. That's why I said "I'd keep my distance". Whenever you're contacted by a journal in such a way, I'd take a look whether it's suspected to be a predatory journal, and if so *stay away!*
Yep, as I suspected, others seem to share my assessment: Lupine Publishers is listed on the list of potentially predatory publishers: https://beallslist.net/ I'd keep my distance.