Re: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)

2020-12-10 Thread Jonathan Fine
Hi Gab Thank you for your interest. I had a look at the tex.sx link (which I think I've seen before). The problem is dependency management - TeX Live is so big. Related is running TeX in a serverless setting. For that see https://github.com/samoconnor/lambdalatex By the way, the tex-live list did

Re: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)

2020-12-10 Thread Gabriele
Hi Jonathan These days I don't use LaTeX as much as I've used to when I was in Academia and I also never got involved directly with any TeX user group. This sounds like a good way for me to "make amend" even though my spare time is, in general, very limited. There's a TeX topic that I wanted to ex

Re: [python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)

2020-12-10 Thread Steve - Gadget Barnes
Good for you Jonathan, I personally do not currently make much use of TeX at the moment (always subject to change) but I am a strong advocate of open user groups for FOSS. I hope that you are successful in setting up the new group. Steve Barnes From: python-uk On Behalf Of Jonathan Fine Sent:

[python-uk] Off-topic: TeX Office Hours (and Python)

2020-12-10 Thread Jonathan Fine
Hi The UK TeX Users Group is close to folding. This is sad. It is a closed (paid membership only) organisation. I think it's time for an open to all UK TeX grouping. To help set this up, I'm holding a TeX Office Hour every Thursday 6:30 to 7:30pm, until the end of March. https://jfine2358.github