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I'm a PhD student in mathematics. My current research area is diophantine approximation on abelian varieties, which involves algebraic geometry and number theory. French readers can learn more about my math activities on my university webpages.

Like most mathematicians, I discovered LaTeX while writing my Master thesis, but unlike most of my colleagues, I soon came to spend a lot of time playing with it as a programming language and exchanging ideas (and later answering questions) on the Usenet group fr.comp.text.tex.

Later, I developed a few LaTeX packages, then joined the TeX Live team. I also took over development of the texdoc utility shipped with TeX Live. Recently, I've been involved in developing packages for LuaLaTeX. On my blog (in French), I share tips and news on TeX, among other geeky topics.

I love programming (and other aspects of free software development and maintenance). Besides (La)TeX and Lua, I practice Perl and C for TeX Live development. I also enjoy administrating Unix systems.

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Mar 14	comment	TeXLive 2011 and pdf graphics problem? Your link to kerTeX seems wrong. Except of course if you think TeX Live should be demolished ;)
Mar 3	answered	Executing Tex Live by SSH command
Feb 27	comment	texdoc doesn’t search at $TEXMFHOME I believe Andrey Vihrov's answer is the correct one. But just for information, texdoc 0.83 appears to find documents even without the `<category>` component. Which version of texdoc are you using (`texdoc --version`)?
Feb 27	comment	texdoc doesn’t search at $TEXMFHOME It does looks into `TEXMFHOME/doc` for at least two reasons: 1. `TEXMFHOME` is part of a brace-expression that ends with `/doc` so `/doc` is appended to each component, and 2. the expression actually ends with `//` which means to search recursively. Try `texdoc kpathsea` for details :)
Feb 26	comment	If I have TeX Live 2011 how to install a previous version of biblatex (1.0)? `tlmgr` already runs `texhash`, no need to do it again.
Feb 22	answered	How to install system wide packages without requiring an ls-R database (with texlive)?
Feb 7	answered	Computer powered down during tlmgr update, now tlmgr won't update packages, nor itself
Feb 6	answered	Backing up and restoring texlive 2011 (Linux)
Feb 6	comment	Backing up and restoring texlive 2011 (Linux) Step 1 and 2 on slaves are useless. (Unless you use the "symlink" option at installation time.)
Jan 31	comment	Customizing texdoc - funny search path On an unrelated note, I think the result of `texdoc cool` is clearly suboptimal, so the adjustment you wanted to make to your configuration should actually be incorporated in the default configuration file. I'd like to encourage everyone to report such suboptimal (or wrong) results on the texdoc list so that I can fix them. Such user input is very useful for me to keep making texdoc better. Thanks in advance.
Jan 31	comment	Customizing texdoc - funny search path Speaking as texdoc's author, I think it is a bug in texdoc. More precisely, it was a bug which should be fixed since version 0.81 (shipped with TeX live 2011).
Jan 31	comment	Customizing texdoc - funny search path Rather than an environment variable, I suggest you use a KPSE variable, named `TEXMFHOME.texdoc` (same as the envvar but with a dot---actually it's the other way round: the envvar is named after the KPSE var). You can set it either by manually editing a relevant `texmf.cnf` file or by having tlmgr edit on for you, eg `tlmgr conf texmf TEXMFHOME.texdoc "~/texmf"`, exactly in the same way you modified the value of TEXMFHOME in the first place.
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Aug 8	awarded	Nice Answer
Aug 7	answered	How to install a package from an older version of TeXLive?
Aug 7	comment	How to install a package from an older version of TeXLive? IIUC, the question is not about more up-to-date packages, but about installing packages that were omitted in the initial installation. So the DVD would indeed be a solution.
Aug 3	comment	How to handle old source needing floatflt.sty? By the way, custom licences (and to a lesser extent, additional clauses to well-known licences) are a nightmare for distribution maintainers at every level (TL, Linux distros). Authors should avoid them unless they have very strong reasons.