Author: Ingram Braun

Archaeologist, web developer, proofreader

August 29, 2022

ÖPNV (Cantus, NVV) – oder der Kunde als Feind!

Das 9-€-Ticket während der Sommermonate 2022 sollte zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe schlagen: Die wegen der durch den russischen Überfall auf die Ukraine samt der wegen der Energiekosten explodierende Inflationsrate sollte im einstelligen Bereich gehalten werden. Gleichzeitig sollten im Zusammenspiel mit der schon seit 2018 grassierenden Dürre die Leute an den öffentlichen Personennahverkehr (ÖPNV) gewöhnt werden, um Emissionen durch Autoabgase...

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July 2, 2022

Illegale Schachstellung in der Krimiserie „Derrick“ 1988

In der ZDF-Krimiserie „Derrick“ S12E6 („Wie kriegen wir Bodetzki? ) von 1988 ist ein Schachspieler zu sehen, der über eine illegale Stellung nachdenkt.

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December 25, 2021

Rime in Vellmar-West [Gallery]

These are photographs I have taken on December 22, 2021 at my parents’ home in Vellmar-West, Hamburger Straße 25 when fresh hoarfrost laid over street and garden.

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March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅳ: Pandoc

Pandoc is a command line tool for converting from one markup to another. It uses a largely enhanced markdown syntax as intermediate format. This allows for adding input and output filters for only one format instead of writing them for every possible conversion anew. In case you don’t know what markdown is: It was invented for writing HTML quickly by...

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March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅲ: LyΧ

LyΧ is an editor for LaTeΧ that resembles WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. This is achieved by employing HTML for screen output and LaTeΧ for printable formats. Thus the applicable LaTeΧ commands are limited to those for which a HTML complement is available. It is possible to input raw LaTeΧ code...

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March 10, 2021

WP Tournament Registration updated to 1.1.2

I have released a new version (1.1.2) of my WordPress Plugin WP Tournament Registration. There are only small changes in the documentation and it is tested with the brand new WordPress release 5.7 now. You can check it out on the project page or read the entire manual on the WordPress plugin page. Enjoy!

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February 13, 2021

A long-eared owl in Vellmar-West

A long-eared owl (Asio otus, German Waldohreule) in my parent’s apple tree in Vellmar-West on February 13th, 2021. Click to enlarge!

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February 9, 2021

Snow in Vellmar-West

Image gallery showing the snowy garden of my parent’s home in Vellmar-West, Hamburger Str. 25, on Ferbruary 12, 2021.

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December 30, 2020

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅱ: Zotero and Citavi

I assume that most German archaeologists employ Zotero or Citavi to collect their references. Both are web-based reference managers today, and both are capable to export BibTeΧ files. The main issue is that their database structure is not as in high resolution as BibTeΧ and especially bibLaTeΧ are. Zotero In order to export refrences from Zotero to biblatex-archaeology you should...

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December 24, 2020

Corona Christmas

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