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Traditional and Simplified Chinese in LaTeX

04-Apr-09

I’ve been in the habit of using LaTeX’s CJK environment across a whole document to allow me to insert, for example, Japanese anywhere I like. However, if you want to have more than one language (not covered by the same font) in the same document (such as both traditional and simplified Chinese, Japanese and Korean, [...]

glot

01-Apr-09

What started as an attempt to make a desktop application for CEDICT turned into an ambitious attempt to create an omniformat dictionary database and interface. glot aims to be both a backend for managing and querying dictionaries of any (electronic) format–even those over network protocols like DICT–and also an intelligent interface for querying a massive [...]

Latex, Python, and CairoPlot

18-Mar-09

CairoPlot is a Python module that uses the Cairo graphics package to produce great-looking charts easily. The results look really nice and are much simpler to create than many other packages, but up until now it has been suboptimal for use with LaTeX documents. I’ve been talking with the package maintainer and filing bugs about [...]

goodmami.org

05-Mar-09

Homepage of Michael Wayne Goodman, computational linguist at the University of Washington.