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Things I did with Claude on a Week-End

This is the Elephants' graveyard where I put big projects which have been tackled and, sometimes, even fulfilled beyond expectations.

TeX to unicode

This is the first one I completed, on 25 July (2026). That was the goal:

Find a way to map TeX-to-Unicode on the go, without passing by https://www.unicodeit.net/, e.g., instead of Ctrl+Shift+U opening a u and inviting a unicode character (for em-dash), do something like Ctrl+Shift+Alt Gr+U invites a TeX command that parses into unicode, such as g^{(2)}(\tau) turning into g⁽²⁾(τ).

and it resulted in the mighty TeX2unicode. This was better than I intended, so a big success for a first try, that went beyond expectations, although those were very high. The wonders of AI and the power of the tool!

Prettify glosses

On the next day, 26 July (2026), this one went down too:

Prettify the listing of my glosses in my diary, so that instead of, e.g., for July (2026):

* [[July 22|22]]: Gloss on {{Malygin85b}}
* [[July 22|22]]: Gloss on {{Howell04a}}
* [[July 22|22]]: Gloss on {{Edgar12a}}
* [[July 23|23]]: Gloss on {{Moreau12a}}
* [[July 23|23]]: Gloss on {{Lantz15a}}

which renders as

Have something more styleish and tidy, e.g., with a manicule and some grouping:

Indentation should be neater, which is also part of the task.

I use Palmyrene numerals 𐡻, 𐡺, 𐡹 (they normally read from right to left) which are beautiful glyphs for Palmyrene Aramaic, the language of Palmyra (in present-day Syria) from roughly the 1st century BCE to the 3rd century CE: