Norbert Preining

The new TeX Live installer
(Joint work with Siep Kroonenberg and Reinhard Kotucha). We presented the new TeX Live installer, based on the new package infrastructure. It includes a text based as well a graphical user interface. Among other new features, installing TeX Live from the internet is now possible. It should work on all platforms supported by TeX Live.

[2008-04-30 | /TeX] permanent link

TeX Live’s new infrastructure.
Many things have changed in the TeX Live world, and finally we got network installation and updates. Basic for all this is the new infrastructure. A quite detailed talk on its basics was given on the Bachotek 2008. in April 2008. The slides of the talks can be found here: PDF.

[2008-04-30 | /TeX] permanent link

TeX Live’s new infrastructure.
I have been working a lot on creating a new infra structure for TeX Live. Since we have now completely switched to this new infra structure I gave a talk at the GuIT Meeting 2007 in October 2007. The slides of the talks can be found here: PDF. It is accompanied by an article in the ArsTeXnica and a preliminary version is available here: PDF.

[2007-10-20 | /TeX] permanent link

Talk on TeX (Live) on Debian
On the (very nice) EuroBachoTeX 2007 I have given a talk on TeX (Live) on Debian. For the full proceedings I will submit a full article, and in addition I put up the slides of the presentation here: eurotex07-talk.pdf

[2007-05-04 | /TeX] permanent link

texinfo maintainance
I have taken over texinfo maintainance since quite some time.

[2006-06-06 | /TeX] permanent link

Typesetting Georgian
Preliminary files for using the fonts acadnusx and acadmtavr can be found here.

[2006-06-01 | /TeX] permanent link

Ω and typesetting
Ω is an extension of TeX which can handle Unicode, has 256*256 pointers into data-structures, therefor you can have 256*256 fonts, counts, ….
Furthermore Ω can filter the input through a number of finite state automata before the processing of macros and primitives is started. These automata can for example analyse non-standard scripts like devanagari or arabic. So it is possible to typeset all languages.
See the homepage of omega for further details.

• An example (gif-image, ps-file) of an arabic text (produced by Yannis Haralambous).
• An example (gif-image, ps-file) of a tibetan text (produced by me with the otibet-package)
• The otibet-package for setting tibetan text with Omega (see the documentation).

[2006-05-06 | /TeX] permanent link

TeX Live on Debian.
N. Preining. TUGboat 26(3):241-242, 2005. PDF.

[2005-12-31 | /TeX] permanent link