Various packages...

A few bits of work that may be of some use to others.

Current

These are generally distributed under the GPL, unless stated otherwise. This is the licence I generally default to; if you have some need for a distribution under another licence, I probably wouldn't take much persuading.

LaTeX packages

• showlabels – show labels in a document
• textpos – position text on the page
• feyn – Feynman diagram font
• urlbst – Add webpage fields to .bst files
• supplements – Split a complex LaTeX document into separate pieces

Various Scheme applications

• Squicky – Squicky is a PLaneT package (that is, for Racket) which parses the 'consensus wiki' syntax described by the WikiCreole people, and turns it into more manageable xexprs.
• racket-librdf – A Racket extension which wraps the Redland RDF library. This is very alpha software.
• Assorted scheme scripts – various Scheme scripts, for writing XML, design-by-contract and decoding DER-encoded byte arrays. They should be portable to R5RS implementations, but they're otherwise pretty random.

dvi2bitmap

a DVI reader, which converts DVI files to bitmaps.

Quaestor

Quaestor is a generic triplestore and SPARQL endpoint, which allows you to upload ontology and instance data, and query the result through a RESTful interface. It's built on top of Jena, and uses SISC (a Java Scheme implementation). Since it was first developed under the aegis of AstroGrid, it's distributed under the terms of the AFL.

uk.me.nxg.lx

Lx is a compact syntax for XML. It is useful for XML files which have sufficiently more markup than text – such as XSLT stylesheets or RDF files – where the content is quite difficult to see amidst the forest of angle-brackets. It's effectively a sexp-to-SAX parser for Java.

libsigwatch

libsigwatch.a is a library of routines to provide simple signal watching for Fortran programs. This allows a minimal level of control of a running program from outside it, for example to tell it to checkpoint itself on receipt of a signal. Signal handling is rather tricky in Fortran (because the function that is registered as a signal handler is later called by value rather than by reference), so this library provides functions to make it easier.

devrandom

devrandom reads a number of bytes from the random device (typically /dev/random) and prints them in a variety of formats. This provides a convenient source of randomness for scripts and the like, as well as an easy way of generating secure passwords.

bibhtml

A Perl script plus BibTeX styles, for turning BibTeX database entries into HTML, and thus allowing you to cite entries within BibTeX databases from within an HTML page, in a convenient way.

aiff-grokker

A basic utility to examine the structure of, and minimally edit, AIFF audio files.

ttl-mode.el

This is an Emacs mode for editing Turtle (RDF) files (also known as N3 or Notation3). It's based on an excellent start made by Hugo Haas. I've extended it to support indentation, some electric punctuation, and hungry delete.

GU styles

I maintain a couple of LaTeX style files of interest to members of Glasgow University.

Assorted

The following are projects which might be of some use to others, but which I've now essentially abandoned.

Jade LaTeX back-end

a patch to OpenJade 1.3.2 which adds a simple back-end to help generate LaTeX.

minutes.dtd

a DTD and DSSSL stylesheet for processing meeting minutes.

[Ancient] Kept LSE

VMS's LSE editor was wonderful, except that it used to take ages to start up. This little bundle allowed you to keep an LSE process going as a subprocess, cunningly suspended. I don't suppose anybody still uses dear old LSE, but if they do, here's an example of doing odd things with TPU, as well as using more languages to solve a problem than you'd reasonably expect to have to.