The preparation of LGP 2009 Montreal is on his way (OSP is very excited!) and the LGM website offers this fine view of the planning exercice for the talks. Beautiful way of showing the still open program.
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Designing with TeX: episode III
Thanks to the super active ConTeXt mailinglist, we are finally able to load our own fonts! And of course, once we know how, we are almost disappointed that it is so easy to do.
if you compile this file:
\definetypeface[Libertinage][rm][Xserif][Libertinage] \setupbodyfont …
Designing with TeX: episode II
"Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that specify the logical structure of a document". If only we had sooner understood that user here is writer, not designer, we might have given up earlier. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2 goes on …
The
hard and well documented
workof
a ~~Dutch~~ Belgian Python artist and designer -
Stani - to produce a coin devoted to Dutch
contemporary architecture, using only
floss. The stroke font he design
for it is simply beautiful (currently no info on availability). Via
Dave's understanding blog.
It's rentrée day at
OSP
and we're shaking
our website.
The future ~~hours~~
days
will show some chaos
on pages and
categories and html
renderings...
Towards is a cartographic project close to OSP and the second publication is finally out and available after a long 9 months of preparation. Following our informations, it's the last one that will be produced using proprietary software ;)... But the timeline present on the cover and backcover, made from all …
In a déjà old interview (2000) by Advogato, Donald Knuth (TeX and Metafont author) answers in his sometimes-very-short sometimes-generous style. In the middle of these all interesting things, a few exchanges about relations between mathematics, fonts, free and money. Enough close to some parts of talks at Wroclaw, like the …
Kaveh Bazargan has patiently recorded the sound and the screen of every interventions at LGM. Here is ours: http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm2008/quicktime/0103-Harrisson.html. (At the end of the conference, we discovered that Kaveh is a TeX guy for 20 years, so we've asked him a few …
Thanks to Andy Fitzsimon for the picture (in CC full open)!
This Wednesday, join us for our type workshop in the OPT cultural center in Wrocław from 11am to ongeveer 6pm. For those who arrive directly from the airport, you can begin with this path then please print this map, because it seem that it is not easy to find for …
