Denis Roegel

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• List of publications provided by HAL
• Books:
  • Michel Goossens, Frank Mittelbach, Sebastian Rahtz, Denis Roegel and Herbert Voß: The LaTeX Graphics Companion, Second Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2007. This book is also part of The LaTeX Companions Third Revised Boxed Set.
• Articles, reports, programs:
  • Concurrency:
    • Denis Roegel: Separating Algorithm and Implementation in Refinement of Parallel Program Specifications, Proceedings of the BCS-FACS 7th Refinement Workshop --- Theory and Practice of System Design, July 3--5, 1996, Bath, England.
    • Peter Ladkin, Leslie Lamport, Bryan Olivier and Denis Roegel: Lazy Caching in TLA. Distributed Computing, volume 12, issue 2-3, pages 151-174, 1999. Preliminary version (PDF).
    • Denis Roegel: Étude de la sémantique de programmes parallèles «réels» en TLA, PhD, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1, 7 novembre 1996. (in French). More (an English version of the thesis is available).
    • Denis Roegel: Generating correct concurrent code from the Concurrency Factory, PDF Technical Report, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, 1999
    • Denis Roegel and Scott Smolka: Code Generation From Hierarchical Concurrency Specifications, PDF Technical Report, 2001
  • Scheduling algorithmics:
    • Denis Roegel: Simple algorithms for preemptive traffic control, and an appraisal of their quality, PDF Technical Report, 2005
  • Logic:
    • Denis Roegel: Logique formelle et modélisation du raisonnement. Notions de base. PDF file Handout, 1995. (in French)
    • Denis Roegel: A brief survey of 20th century logical notations PDF file (French), PDF file (English)2000.
  • Typesetting:
    • Jean-Michel Hufflen, Denis Roegel and Karl Tombre: Guide local (La)TeX du LORIA - Millésime 1998, September 1998.(in French) (first edition: november 1994; second edition: november 1995; third edition: december 1996)
    • Denis Roegel: La classe thloria (obsolete)
    • Denis Roegel: La classe thesul, 2013
    • Denis Roegel: Les formats de fichiers DVI, GF, TFM et VF: que contiennent-ils et comment les visualiser?, Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 26, mai 1997, pages 71-95. PDF. (The page numbers in the downloadable file are wrong.)
    • Denis Roegel: Anatomie d'une macro (original version, in French) (corrected version, in French), Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 31, décembre 1998, pages 19-27.
      • An English translation appeared in TUGboat (volume 22, number 1/2, March/June 2001, pages 78-82).
      • A reprint (O rozboru jednoho makra) of the English translation was published in the journal Zpravodaj, 2010, vol 20, issue 1-2, pp. 68-76
    • Maintainer (formerly with Karl Tombre, then with Nicolas Holzschuh) of the LaTeX Navigator.
    • TeX (and METAFONT, METAPOST, ...) code on CTAN:
      • pi.tex: A TeX program computing Pi using John Machin's formula (D. Roegel, 1996)
      • aeguill.sty (now obsolete): a LaTeX package to get nice French guillemets in PDF (D. Roegel, first version in 1998)
      • frenchbg.sty (now obsolete): a LaTeX package supplementing babel/frenchb, to get ISO-Latin 1 French guillemets that behave like in the former french package (15 June 2004)
      • truchet.mp: a METAPOST file for Truchet tilings (D. Roegel, 1995)
      • drgen.mf: METAFONT symbols for genealogy (D. Roegel, 1996)
      • aecompl.sty (now obsolete): a LaTeX package adding the missing symbols from the ae font (D. Roegel, 1998)
      • 3d.mp: METAPOST package for 3d animations (D. Roegel, 1998)
      • metaobj.mp: METAPOST package for high-level objects (D. Roegel, 2001)
    • Presentations
      • Denis Roegel : Inclusions graphiques et homogénéisation des polices (1997, Journées GUTenberg, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : Formats de fichiers autour de TeX et outils de visualisation (1997, Journées GUTenberg, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : LaTeX, le graphisme et PostScript (1997, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : La programmation en LaTeX (1997, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : Les mathématiques avec TeX (1997, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : Plain TeX (1999, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : Programmation LaTeX (1999, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : An overview of TeX (1999, in French)
      • Denis Roegel : Introduction à ConTeXt (source file, without the fancy stuff) (June 13, 2002, in French)
  • Graphics:
    • Denis Roegel : Une expérience METAPOST ou comment j'ai repris le goût de dessiner (1997, Journées GUTenberg, in French)
    • Denis Roegel: Creating 3D animations with METAPOST (PDF file), TUGboat volume 18, number 4 (December 1997), pages 274-283. The paper, macros and examples are available on CTAN.
    • Philippe Esperet and Denis Girou: Coloriage du pavage dit << de Truchet >> (PDF, in French), Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 31, décembre 1998, pages 5-18 (contribution of four pages, but no author credits)
    • Denis Roegel: La géométrie dans l'espace avec METAPOST, Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 39-40, May 2001, pages 107-138. PDF. (in French, conference proceedings of GUT2001) An English translation appeared in TUGboat (volume 22, number 4, December 2001, pages 298-314).
    • Denis Roegel: The METAOBJ tutorial and reference manual (15 September 2002) The package is available on CTAN.
    • Denis Roegel: METAPOST, l'intelligence graphique, Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 41, November 2001, pages 5-16. (in French)
    • Denis Roegel: METAOBJ: Very High-Level Objects in METAPOST, Proceedings of TUG 2002, Trivandrum, India, 4-7 September 2002, pages 93-100. The slides are available here.
    • Denis Roegel: MP2GL: prototyping 3D objects with METAPOST and OpenGL, Proceedings of EuroTeX 2005, Pont-à-Mousson, France, 7-11 March 2005, pages 5-24. A local copy of the submitted paper is available here. The slides of the talk are available here.
    • Denis Roegel: Kissing Circles: A French Romance in METAPOST, TUGboat (volume 26, number 1, 2005, pages 10-17)
    • Denis Roegel: Review of Bill Casselman's ``Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript'', Notices of the AMS, 2007, volume 54, number 1, pages 38-42.
    • Denis Roegel: Sphères, grands cercles et parallèles, Cahiers GUTenberg numéro 48, April 2007, pages 7-22. (in French)
      • An English translation appeared in TUGboat (Spheres, great circles and parallels , TUGboat, volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 80-87).
      • A Czech translation (Kulové plochy, hlavní kružnice a rovnoběžky) of the English translation was published in the Zpravodaj journal, 2010, vol 20, issue 1-2, pp. 23-38
      • See also Wu ChengYuan's Interactive Astronomy Using 3D Computer Graphics (National University of Singapore, 2010), a comparative study of graphical packages using one of the article's examples.
    • Denis Roegel: A complex drawing in descriptive geometry, TUGboat (volume 28, number 2, 2007, pages 218-228) (the published article is available here) See also this model: from the Musée des arts et métiers in Paris, which was made by Olivier, I believe, and almost identical to the gearing described in the article.
    • Denis Roegel: Kanji-Sudokus: Integrating Chinese and Graphics,
      • original article TUGboat (volume 29, number 2, 2008, pages 317-319)
      • A Czech translation (Sudoku s vepsanými kandži: integrace čínských glyfů s grafikou na úrovni METAPOSTu) was published in the journal Zpravodaj, 2010, vol 20, issue 3, pp. 220-226
    • Denis Roegel: MetaPost macros for drawing Chinese and Japanese abaci
      • original article, TUGboat (volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 74-79)
      • A Czech translation (Jednoduché makro suanpan na kreslení čínského a japonského abaku) was published in the journal Zpravodaj, 2010, vol 20, issue 3, pp. 138-151
    • Denis Roegel: An introduction to nomography: Garrigues' nomogram for the computation of Easter, TUGboat (volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 88-104)
    • Denis Roegel: Easter bracelets for 5700000 years, 2014 (direct link)
    • Denis Roegel: Easter-based walks on a sphere, 2014 (direct link)
    • Denis Roegel: Editing ancient technical and mathematical figures: Tools and traps, 2015
  • Astronomy:
    • Edward M. Reingold and Denis Roegel: solar package for the emacs editor, 1996.
    • Denis Roegel: Three dials, and a few more: a practical introduction to accurate gnomonics, 2007.
    • Denis Roegel: Chinese and Japanese calendars, 2008
      • English version with simplified Chinese (16 MB file)
      • English version with traditional Chinese (16 MB file)
      • French version with simplified Chinese (16 MB file)
      • French version with traditional Chinese (16 MB file)
    • for calendars, see also my article on nomography, An introduction to nomography: Garrigues' nomogram for the computation of Easter, TUGboat (volume 30, number 1, 2009, pages 88-104)
    • Denis Roegel: An Extension of Al-Khalīlī's Qibla Table to the Entire World, 12 June 2008 (781 pages).
    • Denis Roegel: The strange beauty of the twilight flower, 2014
    • see also under Numerical tables
  • Architecture:
    • Denis Roegel: The "Villarceau circles" in Uhlberger's staircase (ca. 1580), 2014
  • Optics:
    • Denis Roegel: A note on Gullstrand's formula, 14 June 2008
  • Physics:
    • Several historical works have been annotated.
  • History of computing:
    • Denis Roegel: An Early (1844) Key-Driven Adding Machine, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 59-65, January-March 2008. (also a short addenda in vol. 30, no. 3, p. 3, July-September 2008)
    • Denis Roegel: Prototype Fragments from Babbage's First Difference Engine, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 70-75, April-June 2009.
    • Denis Roegel: A new milestone: the first 7-8 places 2000 meters logarithmic slide cylinder, 2015 (with appendices base24.pdf, over24.pdf, base2000.pdf, and over2000.pdf)
    • Denis Roegel: A concise yet complete description of Schwilgué's series calculator, 10 April 2015.
    • Denis Roegel: Chebyshev's continuous adding machine, 2015
    • Denis Roegel: Napier's bones and Genaille-Lucas's rods, 2015
    • Denis Roegel: An overview of Schwilgué's patented adding machines, Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society, volume 126, pages 16-22, 2015
    • Denis Roegel: A mechanical calculator for arithmetic sequences (1844-1852): part 1, historical context and structure, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 90-96, October-December 2015
    • Denis Roegel: A mechanical calculator for arithmetic sequences (1844-1852): part 2, working details, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 80-88, January-March 2016
    • Denis Roegel: Before Torchi and Schwilgué, there was White, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 92-93, 2016
    • Denis Roegel: A new early adding machine by Schwilgué (c. 1840?), Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society, volume 130, pages 24-27, 2016
    • Denis Roegel: Carries Stripped to the Bone: Episodes in the History of Coaxial Modular Digital Counters, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 39, no. 3, pp. 55-64, 2017
    • Denis Roegel: Before Torchi and Schwilgué, there was White, ComputingEdge, IEEE Computer Society, 2017, pp. 42-43 (reprint of the above)
  • History of science:
    • Denis Roegel: The missing new moon of 16399 and other anomalies of the Gregorian calendar (PDF), 2003 (submitted)
  • History of mathematics:
    • Denis Roegel: Lambert's proof of the irrationality of Pi: Context and translation, 2020
  • Horology:
    • Review of Joseph Flores' book on Klinghammer's computus model, Mitteilungen der Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chronometrie, Nr. 113, Frühjahr 2008, pp. 58-60. (in German)
    • Review of Joseph Flores' book on Klinghammer's computus model, NAWCC Bulletin (Bulletin of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors), vol. 50/4, n. 375, August 2008, pp. 471-472
    • Annotation of George Biddell Airy's On the Forms of the Teeth of Wheels (published in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 2, p. 277-286, 1827). (14 November 2006)
    • Annotation of George Biddell Airy's On the Disturbances of Pendulums and Balances, and on the Theory of Escapements (published in the Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, volume 3, p. 105-128, 1830). (25 September 2006)
    • Annotation of George Biddell Airy's On the Vibration of a Free Pendulum in an Oval differing little from a Straight Line (published in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, volume XX, p. 121-130, 1851). (3 November 2006)
  • Numerical tables:
    • The LOCOMAT project: a census of historical mathematical tables, 2010-2017 (200000 pages of reconstructions as well as a comprehensive census!)
    • Denis Roegel: An Extension of Al-Khalīlī's Qibla Table to the Entire World, 12 June 2008 (781 pages).
    • Denis Roegel: Reconstruction of Edward Sang's Tables for the mutual conversion of solar and sidereal time published in 1868 (October 15, 2010) (original version on google books)
    • Denis Roegel: The LOCOMAT Project: Recomputing Mathematical and Astronomical Tables, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 74-79, April-June 2012.
    • for many other reports, see the link to the HAL repository as well as the LOCOMAT project
  • Digital libraries:
    • Sustainable digitization -- Numérisation durable, 2012 (English and French)
    • Aperçu du fonds ancien imprimé en astronomie au SCD Sciences Uds-ULP Strasbourg, 2013
    • Aperçu du fonds ancien imprimé en mathématiques, physique, chimie, sciences naturelles, etc. (sauf astronomie) au SCD Sciences UdS-ULP Strasbourg, 2013
    • Denis Roegel: Quelques remarques sur les référentiels de numérisation de la BnF, 2014 (in French)
  • China and Japan:
    • Denis Roegel: Mémento de Japonais pour débutants, 2008 (in French)
    • Denis Roegel: Practice sheets for the correspondence between simplified and traditional Chinese characters, following the list published in 1986 (PDF), 2008 (this document is not complete, pending various encoding issues)
    • Denis Roegel: Correspondence between simplified and traditional characters (PDF), 2008 (this document is more complete than the previous one, and it identifies the pending encoding issues)
    • see also under the Astronomy and Graphics headings
  • Literature:
    • Denis Roegel: Une petite introduction à Mishima, 2009 (in French)
  • Miscellaneous: This section contains various documents and unpublished notes which might be of interest to the curious reader.
    • Denis Roegel: U.S. Elections in Florida Poster, December 2000-January 2001.
    • Denis Roegel: Computing the intersection of two circles (in French) (17 December 2001)
    • Denis Roegel: Ten commandments for a PhD student (July 2008)
    • Denis Roegel: The eroding rotation: Why digital pictures should not be rotated (1st March 2009)