@ben with all fediverse integration it can be a game changer
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Deviating from the norm and making progress. Defender of rights & freedoms in the digital era, and #Zappa-ist. Privacy lawyer at apple
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Heard about the am-dash (https://www.theamdash.com/) on the latest episode of 99 Percent Invisible.
As I understand it, there's no unicode for the am-dash yet. While I have downloaded Times New Human and Areal, I wouldn't now how to actually get the am-dash in a LaTeX-generated document, since the command to get it is more than a single character.
I hacked something together, but obviously that's not the same.
Does anybody know how to do it properly? Or maybe someone has already contacted Cocogun to ask if they'd be willing to collaborate on a project to make a tiny LaTeX package or something, just so we can use the am-dash in our LaTeX-typeset documents?
#TexLaTeX #Typography #Typesetting #Fonts #AmDash #99pi #Podcast
@slothrop always important to set expectations and convey priorities correctly.
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“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/
It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*.
Conversions to pdf are done via Typst.
@pandoc with filters and all! 🤯
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Welcome to Mastodon, @HennaVirkkunen !
As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.
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Big new update to #LibreOffice, the free and private office suite. Version 26.2 is here, with:
📝 Markdown support
📊 Connectors in Calc
🚀 Spreadsheet speedups
...plus many other new features, improvements and fixes. Learn more and download it: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/04/libreoffice-26-2-is-here/ #foss #opensource #freesoftware
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This petition wants contributing to Free Software to be legally and officially recognized as volunteering in Germany on the same level as youth work or ambulance service:
This would bring fiscal and funding advantages for FLOSS organizations and the volunteers themselves.
If you are a German citizen, please sign the petition and let's get our volunteers the recognition they deserve!
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#FOSDEM weekend plans? Join us for coffee ☕ and great company 💜
Meet fellow women and gender-diverse (FLINTA) attendees for a relaxed meetup this Sunday at a café nearby!
📆 Sunday, from 15:00h
📍 Le Pain Quotidien (Chau de Boondael, 479)
@CleoMenezesJr 👌🏻will test and let you know. Thanks! Keep up the great work - obrigado
@CleoMenezesJr would love to test. Any reason this cannot work with one version earlier of gnome shell? The one that ships with Debian stable.
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In AOC's 2018 campaign she ran on a platform that prominently included #defundICE. A position that was mocked by mainstream dems as naive and reckless. Any of them ready to apologize and elevate her to party leadership roles yet? Still no? This is my surprised face.
@slothrop pika backup. Simply does the job.
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@hbons Yes, I agree! Luxury Markdown with Local First Sync (like Reflection https://github.com/p2panda/reflection) Office Suite ❤️
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@hbons For simple GNOME document editors:
https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/net.codelogistics.letters Letters: Nice and minimalistic, uses visual formatting, powered by Markdown in the background, and can save to (and open from) other formats too.
https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/org.gnome.gitlab.somas.Apostrophe Apostrophe: A great Markdown document editor.
https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/org.gnome.World.Iotas Iotas: Collection of notes in Markdown with tags, searching, and syncing.
https://flathub.org/en-GB/apps/org.scratchmark.Scratchmark Scratchmark: Markdown in structured documents and folders.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@jimmac/115939240583677352
when people are talking about how #GNOME needs an office suite, I'm thinking something more like this.
wysiwyg is a huge time waster.
dump the proprietary file formats.
let's have a suite of simple but powerful "Luxury Markdown" apps that are compatible with anything and are so good that nobody wants to use bloated office apps ever again.
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