An artist's journey on a TUGboat

Abstract

How does a coloured bird end up on a TUG boat? This is the story of an artist who studied philosophy and combined her skills in a PhD at the University of Amsterdam ( NL ). In order to write her dissertation, she had to learn the L A TEX typesetting programme. Many years later, she still makes art and still writes down her thoughts in L A TEX, with the Memoir class and X E L A TEX as first choice. Always trying to stretch the limits of the programme to her convenience. This essay is not a technical article written by a developer conjuring up ingenious innovations to the L A TEX programme. By contrast, it discusses the relationship between L A T E X, art (photography) and the concept of ‘measurability’ from the perspective of a philosophising artist.