Re: [NTG-context] TUG 2023

[Joseph Wright via ntg-context]

On 04/01/2023 16:50, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:

Hi everybody,

an excellent year 2023 to all of you - I hesitate to say "it can only 
get better from 2022." That's what we thought last year, and boy were we 
wrong and did it get worse... Let's hope that this year will be more 
peaceful and less pandemic...


But to my topic: the official announcement for TUG 2023 is out. It will 
be in Bonn, Germany, in a building literally (literally!) just across 
the street from my university office. So I feel somewhat motivated to go 
and give a talk on ConTeXt and spread the word. Since I'm a simple user 
and no developer, I'm a bit hesitant though: is any of the developers 
going (Hans?)? Since the public will be 99 % LaTeX-centric


I think you need not be afraid there: there will be a decent amount of 
generic stuff and a good number of plain TeX experts, I suspect. Yes, 
LaTeX tends to be the most popular TeX flavour in the talks, but I think 
overall it's much more varied than you are imagining!


Joseph

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Re: [NTG-context] Archlinux: updated BPKGBUILD for luametatex

[Joseph Wright via ntg-context]

On 15/12/2021 20:32, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:

This corresponds the "Download" link on the CTAN page of each package, but 
unfortunately, is not always in TDS format. For example, for pgf (which is locate at 
/graphics/pgf/base), we have

https://mirrors.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base.zip

which lists all tex related files in base/tex sub-directory. The CTAN page 
(https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pgf) also has a field "TDS Archive", which lists:

http://mirrors.ctan.org/install/graphics/pgf/base/pgf.tds.zip

which is TDS compliant. The same is the case for circuitikz and pgfplots. So, 
it safer to use

 "http://mirrors.ctan.org/; .. data.ctan.path .. "/" .. pkg_name .. 
"tds.zip"

But, for context packages, CTAN does nto have the tds zips (I guess because the 
default zip is already TDS compliant). For example:

 https://www.ctan.org/pkg/context-filter

has the "download" link at the bottom but not the "TDS Archive" link.

In the end, since I am only installing 4-5 packages, it is simpler to input the 
URLs but hand rather than write code to automate the logic.


If only we could convince CTAN to have a common structure - this came up 
recently with Norbert re. supporting TeX Live! (cf. CRAN for example)


Joseph
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