PhilT_eX

I am very excited to announce that PhilT_eX is growing!

In no par­tic­u­lar order, here are the new peo­ple who have agreed to join the blog.

Andrew Cull­son will likely be well known to you for his blog Wide Scope, his link-sharing site Sym­poze, or one of his many other online ven­tures. Andrew already posts a bit about L^aT_eX at his blog, but he has agreed to join us here at PhilT_eX as well. I’ve been read­ing Andrew’s blog, and he has lots of inter­est­ing ideas about L^aT_eX and the open-source world (e.g., his work on the Google Android oper­at­ing sys­tem). I’m look­ing for­ward to read­ing his posts in the future.

Juan Come­saña is also join­ing the blog. I met Juan thanks to an inter­est­ing dis­cus­sion of L^aT_eX and phi­los­o­phy over at Cer­tain Doubts. Juan is an advo­cate of Text­Mate as well as Pan­doc, so I’m hop­ing Juan might even­tu­ally have some­thing to say about these (or other) pro­grams and their use re: L^aT_eX. I say ‘even­tu­ally’ because Juan told me his sched­ule is quite busy and it will be a few months before he even hopes to post any­thing here.

Mark Eli Kalderon is one of my L^aT_eX heroes, and I’m really excited that he agreed to post some at PhilT_eX if time allows. His blog was really influ­en­tial on some of my choices as I started learn­ing L^aT_eX (e.g., thanks to his posts, I ended up choos­ing git for my ver­sion con­trol needs). In order to not kill off his excel­lent blog, Mark has agreed to do some cross-posting at PhilT_eX.

Sea­mus Bradley just con­tacted me this morn­ing about post­ing to PhilT_eX. It sounds like he’ll bring some inter­est­ing ideas and expe­ri­ence to the blog, as he has expe­ri­ence with beamer the L^aT_eX pre­sen­ta­tion sys­tem (like Pow­er­Point, but L^aT_eX). I’m espe­cially excited about the fact that Sea­mus is learn­ing emacs and hopes to write about emacs and L^aT_eX. Emacs and Vim (well, vi) are two old text edit­ing rivals, and I’m look­ing for­ward to learn­ing more about emacs.