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David Weir :v_enby:

Was looking at the source to a very early arXiv paper (arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9210243). The PDF is unavailable, for reasons that are obscure ("pre-1996 submission which cannot be processed"). But there's a lot of history in the source code: it looks like it was submitted, as a single file, emailed from BITNET to the arXiv via a gateway. It also uses a now-obscure TeX package phyzzx (ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/).

I know I'll sound like a young person when I say this but I'd love to know how that worked in practice and what it was like to be in academia before everyone had access to a TCP/IP internet connection but after internetworked computers were ubiquitous. Sort of like the TV series Halt and Catch Fire but with physicists.

Screenshot of source code to arXiv submission. The visible lines read: %Paper: hep-ph/9210243 %From: <GRADWOHL%UCLAHEP.BITNET@CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu> %Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 15:19 PDT %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % 1.) The file has to be "TeXed", using the macropackage `phyzzx'. % 2.) The 5 figures are available on request. They can be received % through e-mail in form of PS files, or by regular mail. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %\input phyzzx \hsize 6.5truein \vsize 9.0truein \hoffset 0.2truein \voffset 0.06truein
#arXiv#BITNET#TeX
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🧊 freezr 🥶

Standard interchange image format for Open Source DTP

Hi people,

with all the mayor GUI #DTP software reaching their peak: #GIMP, #Scribus and #Inkscape; and the well established #TeX software #ConTeXt and #SpeedataPublisher, and #ImageMagick we need a serious discussion about which image format we should adopt that works seamlessly across all these applications and it is generally accepted in the press workflow, whereas is embedded or not into a PDF file.

It should be something that has good quality, supports #CMYK and Alpha channels and it is #opensource friendly and perhaps an #openstandard.

I would dare to say that perhaps jpeg2000 matches most of them, it exists from a very long time and can be adopted as common ground, however it is need a combined effort, if what I am writing makes sense for you.

ImageMagick supports it, Gimp 3 currently doesn't, #LuaTeX and #LuaMetaTeX neither. I guess that Inkscape once it will be able to export in CMYK it will decide which format using to store images in CMYK with alpha into a PDF.

It would be very beneficial if we can adopt a format that works everywhere and it is press friendly, thanks.

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Aber jetzt euch für euch: Der Löwe, ein paar andere und ich sind heute auf den #CLT2025 am #DANTEeV Stand und beantworten wieder Fragen rund um #TeX & Friends. Also falls ihr zufällig das eine oder andere #TeXLaTeX Problemchen habt, oder Anregungen oder einfach nur den Löwen besuchen wollt …

Er verteilt heute auch wieder kleine Löwen Ansteck-Pins. @clt_news

Foto zweier Stofftier TeX-Löwen, von denen einer eine schwarze Stoff-Maske träger, sitzen auf dem Tisch am DANTE Stand bei den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2025. Der Löwe mit Maske hat auf dem Schoß einen kleinen TeX-Löwen Ansteck-Pin aus Metall.
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