The new blog has been live here on “KOMA-Script and Friends” since yesterday. It all started when I came across an interesting post while cleaning up the old blog and decided to find a new home for it. The solution was to launch the blog section of …

I congratulate Dr. Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport on her newly earned doctorate. That was a courageous and admirable step. Especially in light of her own explanation of why she decided to take this step, I can only say: “Hats off!” Giving the victims—not the …

That’s a good question, and there’s only one—rather poor—answer to it: Because I don’t have any need for it myself.

The fact is that, for decades, I’ve been creating everything from architectural plans to novels using LaTeX, and I almost always use …

A few minutes ago, I received an email in which an acquaintance and self-proclaimed KOMA-Script user asked me point-blank if I’d gone crazy. Well, that’s a good question.

The background was that I’d told this person about all the volunteer work …

At yesterday’s TeX meetup in Ladenburg—curiously enough, the Heidelberg TeX meetup has been taking place in my neighboring town for several years now—I was shown a beautiful, old Latin grammar book. What was particularly nice about it was the index. Next …

Almost two years ago, someone asked me how much it costs me to run komascript.de. As I’ve often pointed out, I don’t actually run komascript.de. The domain itself has been provided for years by Robin, who also covers the costs for the domain. komascript.de …