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biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅰ: JabRef

This is the first entry in a series of blog posts that aim to investigate how my biblatex-archaeology package interferes with software commonly used by its target audience. Since v2.2 was declared feature complete the objective of v2.3’s development is to enhance usability. JabRef is a very common reference manager in the LaTeΧ world. As…

Cookiewarnung mit URL-Parameter: So nicht!

Cookiewarnung mit URL-Parameter: So nicht!

Cookiewarnungen sind ohne Zweifel eine Pest. Ich glaube auch nicht, daß sie nützen. Wegen ihrer großen Zahl werden sie vermutlich routinemäßig weggeklickt, ohne daß dabei irgendeine Informationsaufnahme beim Besucher stattfindet. Das dürfte denselben Effekt haben wie Alarmanlagen, die ständig Fehlalarme erzeugen. Ich vermeide daher das Setzen von hinweispflichtigen Cookies auf meinen Webseiten und benutze Browserplugins,…

archive.pl 1.8 released

archive.pl 1.8 released

Today a new version of my Perl script archive.pl has been released (version 1.8). There are three new features: The resulting index page can now automatically get posted to a WordPress blog. The Internet Archive has introduced a request limit (15 requests per minute). archive.pl therefore delays archiving to a reasonable extend (10 seconds as…

biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released
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biblatex-archaeology v2.2 released

Good news! Yesterday version 2.2 of my LaTeΧ package biblatex-archaeology was released, with which it comes close to feature completeness. There are no new features on my to-do list, only some minor improvements of existing features and better documentation. Unfortunately there was a huge delay in upgrading, and since the release of biblatex 3.14 biblatex-archaeology…