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Posted registration page and more information for TUG 2011, to be held in Kerala, India this October.

Think I got the new 0.8.3 release of biber in TeX Live's Build and Master trees. So many special cases, oh well ...

Been enjoying James Gleick's new book, Information. A quote from Ada, on trying to (what we would now call) debug her programs for Babbage's (theoretical) Analytical Engine:

"I am in much dismay at having got into so amazing a quagmire & botheration."

More info on TUG'11 in India. Registration form, bursary applications, still coming. If questions or ideas, email tug2011 (at) tug (dot) org.

Finally installed biber in TeX Live, that is, the precompiled binaries made by the authors (with Par::Packer, which I hadn't known about before; very cool). We'll see how many other TL builders want to try ...

In order to do the equivalent of "git pull --dry-run" (which doesn't exist as such) --

git fetch git diff master origin/master

(From Jim Meyering, thanks Jim. He admits "There's probably a much easier way".)

Belatedly learned that Randy Kobes passed away last September. Apparently the university is keeping his machine up, since the CTAN and GNU redirectors have been cruising happily along. Started reimplementing them elsewhere now, though ...

dvips work for a change: hopefully fixed a bug that was causing nan in output with eepic figures (reported by Stefan Moser). Squaring a not-so-big int can easily give a negative number :). I guess it was somehow hidden before (bug was not in any version until 2010) by a final cast of the result to float -- switched to double to eliminate warnings, I guess. One thing always leads to another ...

TUG 2011 will be held in Kerala, India, from October 19–21, 2011, hosted by River Valley Technologies. More when we know more ...

Discovered that the Texinfo command summary and reference card had been missing about a half-dozen commands for years. Amazing what automated checks against the actual implementation can turn up. Now if only we could get it together to do the same for the xetex, pdftex, latex manuals ...