Thierry Bouche’s TeX Home Page

When my main occupation leaves me some time, I used to support our secretaries that typeset everything we write with (plain)TeX. This led me to install & maintain TeX on our unix platforms. Initially from scratch (web2c) but more recently from teTeX. This still needs some customizing, and recompiling. I also had to adapt plain TeX to T1 fonts in order to hyphenate french properly (from macros by D. Taupin & Y. Haralambous). I have investigated rather deeply the problem of the diversity of fonts in (La)TeX, this led to some publications available on the LaTeX Navigator. They range from

tons of samples of postscript fonts to show to the users of TeX that there exist another world than Computer Modern & Times! And that it is easily accessible as long as you pay your new fonts, and you do not print involved maths. A first bunch of samples come from a questionable CDROM (Softkey’s Key Fonts Pro 1555), another one from a more reliable yet too simple (Bitstream Typeshop for Windows and/or Corel Gallery 2).

an essay showing (with sources) that one can obtain a layout quite different from the somewhat overseen one cloned from the TeXBook... with a little extra work. And that one can in turn beat good old style hand work.

I also wrote a commissioned paper that appeared in Cahiers GUTenberg, available here. It has been translated by Christina Thiele and republished in TUGboat, and later MAPS. After that, I wrote other papers, and was elected on the GUTenberg board since 1997. I was chair of GUT’99. I have been the editor of the Cahiers GUTenberg 2006-2016.

I also maintain a list of my publications related to TeX.

June 17, 1996 (quick edits December 20, 2006),

Thierry Bouche