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Keith F. Lynch's Home Page

Posted by ddougj on Thursday December 05, 2024 @09:52AM
from the keithlynch.net dept.

http://keithlynch.net/

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Noodler's Fountain Pen Inks: A Comprehensive Guide

Posted by ddougj on Friday October 13, 2023 @01:16PM
from the jetpens.com dept.

https://www.jetpens.com/blog/Noodler-s-Fountain-Pen-Inks-A-Comprehensive-Guide/pt/902

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Re:How to Fit a Large Program into a Small Machine (Zork, Z-Machine, Z... on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:29AM (#37868598)

Z machine interpreter in PostScript (from a 2019 Usenet discussion): https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.int-fiction/c/HNtntxCpc...

Re:The Interim Computer Museum on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:52AM (#37304984)

New effort by someone involved with the now-closed Living Computers museum in Seattle.

The Interim Computer Museum

Posted by ddougj on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:52AM
from the icm.museum dept.

https://icm.museum

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Literate Programming: Articles

Posted by ddougj on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:14AM
from the literateprogramming.com dept.

http://literateprogramming.com/articles.html

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Stories We’ve Seen Too Often

Posted by ddougj on Monday May 15, 2023 @10:15AM
from the strangehorizons.com dept.

http://strangehorizons.com/submit/fiction-submission-guidelines/stories-weve-seen-too-often/

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RPG-module: Typesetting old-school Dungeons and Dragons modules

Posted by ddougj on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:00PM
from the ctan.org dept.

https://www.ctan.org/pkg/rpg-module

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MPchess: Drawing chess boards and positions with METAPOST

Posted by ddougj on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:04AM
from the ctan.org dept.

https://ctan.org/pkg/mpchess

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Judge Eviscerates Internet Archive’s Scanning and Lending Program

Posted by ddougj on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:58AM
from the publishersweekly.com dept.

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/91862-in-a-swift-decision-judge-eviscerates-internet-archive-s-scanning-and-lending-program.html

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Re:Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX on Thursday November 03, 2022 @09:36AM (#33450736)

Author's 2017 paper on SILE in Tugboat, the journal of the TeX Users' Group: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb38-1/tb118cozens.pdf

TNNT: The November Nethack Tournament

Posted by ddougj on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @09:10AM
from the tnnt.org dept.

https://tnnt.org/

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Re:Wargame: LaTeX package to prepare hex'n'counter wargames on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:03PM (#33264968)

The tutorial included with the package's documentation also contains some examples:

https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/wargame/do...

(Also, it's wonderful to see a package author provide both a reference document and a tutorial.)

Wargame: LaTeX package to prepare hex'n'counter wargames

Posted by ddougj on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @09:24AM
from the ctan.org dept.

https://ctan.org/pkg/wargame

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