Emacs Muse is an authoring and publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing documents and publishing them to various output formats. One of the principal aims in the development of Muse is to make it very easy to produce good-looking, standards-compliant documents.

This will be my last release as maintainer of Emacs Muse, and the project will need a new maintainer effective immediately.

Release info

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.20.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/muse-el/muse-3.20.zip

The highlights for me were:

• Songs from Chrono Trigger!
• Oboe solo in Legend of Zelda medley.
• Music from Halo 1 and 3, with live guitar and full orchestra and choir. Just excellent sound. It made me want to play through Halo 1 again. And get the soundtrack.
• Music from World of Warcraft! It was amazing to hear the background music that I usually take for granted done with such precision and volume. Syncing it with visuals from the in-game trailers was also a nice touch.
• Excellent performance of One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII, with cosplay pics being shown on the display, as an encore.
• The Video Game Pianist renditions of Final Fantasy and Mario tunes.
• Music from various Castlevania and Mega Man games, some of which I recognized from my The Advantage CDs.
• A live performance of Aerosmith's Sweet Emotion on expert mode in Guitar Hero by a talented audience member, with guitar and orchestra accompaniment. And some sort of odd-looking tube for the first 20 seconds or so of the song.
• Seeing Out Run footage while the orchestra played some of its music, as I was walking in. Man that takes me back.

There were a few things that could have made the show even more amazing than it already was.

• I couldn't place one of the songs in the Chrono Trigger medley that most time was spent on. Perhaps it was a Chrono Cross piece? I would have liked to have heard even more themes from Chrono Trigger, and more time spent on that segment overall.
• For Castlevania: Stage 3 (I think that's what it was), instead of them saying "go, go, go", I was expecting to hear some really sweet high notes being hit on the guitar. Most likely, this is due to me being familiar with the live performance version of the song by The Advantage from archive.org.

Stacked parking was an interesting experience. Lots of people waiting in their dark cars, and then simultaneously leaving. It was more painless than it looked. One car nearby was rocking out some video game tunes with some sort of synchronous blinking lights on their car while everyone was waiting to get started.

It's been instructive. I had to adapt a lot of essential utilities like Mailman, Exim, and Courier to work with the AFS filesystem. Hacking Exim was easily the most invasive AFS-related change, and involved me grepping through the large Exim spec document numerous times. I also had to work on a cron script hack to deal with the mess procmail makes when it can't write to AFS for whatever reason.

It has also been fun. I've worked on a method for using git to work on custom changes to Debian packages. I've been impressed with the idea of directory-level ACL's, as implemented by AFS. I've been less than impressed with the idea of tokens that expire, causing standard tools to display weird error messages. I've written and organized a major collaborative documentation effort: the HCoop Member Manual. I've automated much of the work of signing and managing SSL certificates as a site-specific certificate authority.

Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?

A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!

— /usr/games/fortune

Obligatory joke about OfficeOpen XML:

Q: What do you get when you cross Microsoft with an international standards organization?

A: You get an Office format that you can't understand.