Mostly light user, but that's changing as I am now writing a book on Reptiles and Amphibians, so becoming much more involved with LaTeX and BibTeX usage than ever before, but still trying to keep things from getting too complicated as I like KISS.
But... and this is why I love LaTeX - when you do need to something complex there's a way.
Part of my book is original species descriptions for the species covered. One of those species, the original species description is from 1782 and the published article uses Fraktur
So now I have a side project of trying to transcribe the bitmap scans of the original article into LaTeX, where it then becomes fairly easy to make Roman script version (few words have changed spelling), and can work on an English translation with help from German speaking family and friends (My mother was born in Germany).
It's actually quite fun, though frustrating because sometimes the scan of original is poor making it hard to distinguish some glyphs, but I'm getting there.
When done I plan on uploading the transcribed version to archive.org or related with the original article in Fraktur, Roman, and an English translation - so others who want to read the original article can.
Anyway wanted to introduce myself. Don't have a specific question but wanted to say hi.
And that I'm very appreciative of all the work that has gone into LaTeX and TeXLive over the years. It makes things so much easier for me.
