Today, I am sharing once again this moving speech improvised by Christopher Tolkien in January 2019, when he discovered the Aubusson tapestries created with his approval, and that of Baillie Tolkien, the Tolkien Estate and the Tolkien Trust. https://youtu.be/rQmh_Sfq88Y?t=226

Tomorrow, I will have the pleasure of representing the Tolkien Estate, the Tolkien Trust and the Estate of Christopher Tolkien at the inauguration of ‘Cité 2’, an extension of the Cité Internationale de la Tapisserie. 15 years after the launch of the project... https://www.cite-tapisserie.fr/le-musee/les-aventures-tissees/aubusson-tisse-tolkien ... following the famous interview with Christopher Tolkien that I helped Raphaëlle Rérolle to prepare https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2012/07/05/tolkien-l-anneau-de-la-discorde_1729858_3246.html

@simoncozens @onpaperwings @jenskutilek

There are many quality control systems of that type.

@simoncozens @onpaperwings @jenskutilek

It's indeed 423808 in Code 128, repeated. Very likely some bindery control sequence: use of barcodes there is not unusual (though one would expect it to be trimmed properly, esp. with such redundancy...)
The value may be anything, depending on the printer and binding system.
The IBIS binder system for instance uses a barcode with a sheet number, a total, a control code, a short book ID and a job ID. Doesn't match here, but that's the general idea.

Le Dragon de Brume is glad to announce that the "Winter 2025" revision (4th edition) of "A bilbiography of Tolkien Studies in French and English" is out.
It now includes 4,541 références (and covers approx. 392 books)

#tolkienStudies #tolkien #tolkiendil #jrrtolkien

For an upcoming release of my collection of add-on modules for the #SILE typesetting system, I wanted to have some fun and implemented PDF forms (interactive fields)...
Well, It is not the best-written part of the PDF specifications; and as far as I can tell playing with options, support by PDF viewers is at best spotty, when not to say inconsistent...
I wonder if these PDF forms are still used for anything serious, in the modern age of the web?

#pdf #pdfforms #digitalTypesetting #typesetting

@publicvoit @ericsfraga @jbc The "English spacing" convention using a large space between sentence is a 18th-19th "printers' rules" mostly abandoned in modern days. Using"two spaces was only a way to emulate it with typewriter machines. (La)TeX applies English spacing by default, but calls the reverse "french spacing" -- Though the French had nothing to do with it specifically, having a regular inter-word space was the convention everywhere else outside the English-speaking world ;)

@lou_de_sel Si tu as déjà du Markdown en entrée... Il y a quelques alternatives à un rendu PDF par LaTeX:

1/ Pandoc, oui mais + #Typst en moteur (mais je n'ai pas regardé comment personnaliser les styles)

2/ #SILE + resilient.sile (et qui a une configuration des styles en YAML). J'ai produit quelques livres avec ça (je suis l'auteur du module resilient.sile) avec notes de bas de pages, biblios, maths etc, donc queques-uns publiés en impression POD.

From a simple YAML input, my collection of add-on modules for the SILE digital typesetting system now generates hybrid Factur-X / ZugFeRD PDFs!
🚀 Sweet, styled, and automation-ready.

https://omikhleia.github.io/resilient.sile/adventures/invoice/

#SILE #digitalTypesetting #FacturX #FacturX #ZugFeRD #eInvoicing #OpenSource

I can't remember if we mentioned the Summer 2025 update of the aforementioned bibliography!

Le Dragon de brume is moreover very grateful to just discover than the great Tolkien-scholars W.G. Hammond & C. Scull mentioned it on their website (Sept. 2025 update).

https://www.hammondandscull.com/addenda/guide_by_date2.html

Typst 0.14 is out now! Get ready for production with accessibility, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more. Learn about more of the highlights in Typst 0.14 in the thread below ⤵️

#typst

Les Elfes, ces migrants qui ont cherché la paix et la sécurité en traversant la mer #Tolkien
« Peuples fictionnels et dynamique de la création chez J. R. R. Tolkien : peuples, langues et géographie imaginaires »,
https://www.fabula.org/colloques/document14660.php

It is often a good idea to use the `--sandbox` flag when integrating pandoc in a server context, as this will prevent all IO operations during the conversion, thus shielding against information leaks. Internally, this is enforced on the type-level, making it virtually impossible to circumvent.

The article below describes one of the dangers that `--sandbox` shields against.
https://www.wiz.io/blog/imds-anomaly-hunting-zero-day

#pandoc #security #sandbox

🤡 Oh, look! Another "LaTeX killer" promises to solve all your #typesetting woes by being eerily similar, yet somehow revolutionary. 🚀 Apparently, #Typst is here to save us from the horrors of complex #markup with its magical simplicity—until you realize you're just swapping one set of headaches for another. 😂
https://lwn.net/Articles/1037577/ #LaTeX #killer #simplicity #revolution #HackerNews #ngated

After Safari and Chromium-based browsers, now Firefox finally also provides correct line breaking at orthographic syllable boundaries for several Brahmic scripts such as Balinese and Javanese. This style of line breaking was originally proposed in
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2022/22080r2-line-break-ortho-bnd.pdf
and standardized in Unicode 15.1
https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-51.html

The screen shots show line breaking for Balinese in the past and the present. The text is supposed to stay inside the box.

Conférence gratuite le 8 octobre à Paris 6e à propos de la nouvelle traduction du poème #Beowulf par W. Rotgé

“No great adventure without a map… and no great research without a bibliography.”
Le Dragon de Brume presents the new Summer 2025 edition of _A bibliography of Tolkien studies in French and English_ — open access, online and in PDF.
📚 4,245 references
📖 364 books
🔎 Online access + open data
➡️ A key resource for exploring Tolkien studies.

https://sites.google.com/site/dragonbrumeux/bibliography
#Tolkien #TolkienStudies #tolkiendil #jrrtolkien

conférence plénière : 'A case of transmedia mediation: the 'Tolkien' exhibition at the BnF (2019-20) and the Middle Ages'.
https://www.fabula.org/actualites/129157/edad-media-edad-transmedia-moyen-age-transmedia-madrid.html
troisième congrès international “Edad Media : Edad transMedia“, 4-5 septembre 2025 à l’Université Rey Juan Carlos (Campus de Fuenlabrada, Espagne)

Did you know the #SILE #digitalTypesetting system supports a fairly decent subset of #BibTeX / #BibLaTeX and Citation Style Language for bibliographies? True, it's a work in progress, but with some fixes just proposed upstream, it gets better at the task.

Did you know the #SILE #digitalTypesetting supports a very decent subset of the (La)TeX math syntax, besides MathML ? True, there are still bugs and limitations. With some fixes proposed upstream, it gets better at the task.