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My Debian Work

Debian and Me

I am a Debian Developer. That status allows me to create packages for the Debian GNU/Linux system and make them available though the Debian Project's network of archive mirrors.

Since I started working full time, I've had less time and energy to spend on Debian. As a result, I'm not really active in maintaining the Project's tetex-* packages.

I am still maintaining two Debian packages, and have some ideas about other possible packages. (Mostly stuff I have on systems at work that (amazingly!) hasn't been packaged yet for Debian.)

When I was working on the tetex-* packages, I wrote several manual pages (“manpages”) for the teTeX project, most of which have been integrated upstream.

My Packages

LCDF Typetools (lcdf-typetools)

lcdf-typetools is a collection of programs for manipulating multiple-master and OpenType fonts. It incorporates the mminstance package I used to maintain.

Eddie Kohler

Type 1 Utils (t1utils)

t1utils is a set of six utilities for working with Type 1 PostScript fonts:

• t1ascii changes PFB (binary) fonts into PFA (ASCII) format
• t1binary changes PFA format fonts into binary format
• t1disasm translates PFBs or PFAs into a human-readable and -editable format
• t1asm translates the human-readable files into PFA or PFB format
• t1unmac (formerly unpost) translates Macintosh Type 1 fonts into PFB or PFA format
• t1mac translates PFA or PFB files into Macintosh format

Eddie Kohler

Former Packages

Packages that I used to maintain that I either gave up for adoption or that were removed from the distribution.

TeXdocTk

I adopted texdoctk after Adrian Bunk left the project. texdoctk provides a graphical browser (using PerlTk) for teTeX documentation. texdoctk has been merged into teTeX, so it's no longer maintained as a separate package.

Thomas Ruedas

MMinstance

mminstance includes mmafm, a utility to create AFM files for multiple-master PostScript fonts, and mmpfb, a utility to produce a standard PFB font for a single instance of that multiple-master font. MMinstance is now part of the LCDF Typetools.

Eddie Kohler

ThoughtTracker

ThoughtTracker is a knowledge base application. Its purpose is to provide you with a searchable hyperlinked database of information and ideas.

The author of this program disappeared after graduating from university. It hadn't been maintained for about a year before he graduated and had already been showing some severe coding issues with Debian's move to later versions of various libraries and the gcc C++ compiler.

Marco Goetze

Obtaining the Packages

The current versions of my packages should be available from the Debian archives in the woody (or unstable) distribution. In the future, I may make experimental packages available from this site before I'm ready to upload them to Debian proper.