{"id":119,"date":"2004-01-22T09:17:39","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T13:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2004-01-22T09:17:39","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T13:17:39","slug":"dip-dip-dip-my-little-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/22\/dip-dip-dip-my-little-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Dip dip dip, my little ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the latest TUGboat, the communications of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tug.org\/\">TeX Users Group<\/a>, and I&#8217;m a bit worried about how things are going in the world of TeX. TeX is a very powerful free typesetting system. I used it for my thesis back in 1992, and unlike any other wordprocessors from back then, my source files are still readable. I&#8217;ve been a TeXie ever since, landing a couple of jobs in publishing because of it, and spending a couple of years on the board of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nts.tug.org\/\">UK TeX Users&#8217;Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What makes me worried is that they&#8217;re falling badly behind. The issue of TUGboat I got is dated 2002, even though it was typeset in 2003. The content is one large article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silmaril.ie\/downloads\/\">Formatting Information<\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silmaril.ie\/cgi-bin\/blog\/\">Peter Flynn<\/a>. This article is freely available for download elsewhere, and while it&#8217;s a very good tutorial, and nice to have a paper copy, it does strike me that the TUG board are scratching about a bit for content.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription to TUG is not inexpensive. Yes, you get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tug.org\/texlive\/\">TeX Live<\/a> CDs every year, but they&#8217;re an hour&#8217;s download on home broadband. TeX is a great system, but if I were subscribing as a new user, I&#8217;d find it hard to justify joining TUG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got the latest TUGboat, the communications of the TeX Users Group, and I&#8217;m a bit worried about how things are going in the world of TeX. TeX is a very powerful free typesetting system. I used it for my thesis back in 1992, and unlike any other wordprocessors from back then, my source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1686,1687],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-tex","tag-tug"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}