Colophon

This page documents the tools, fonts, images, and text sources used in constructing mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3, and records the licensing status and attribution requirements for all third-party material.

• Tools and toolchain
• Fonts
• Images
• Text sources
• License summary

Tools and Toolchain

All HTML on this site is hand-authored. No content management system, static site generator, or JavaScript framework is used. The site is deliberately static, apart from the tooltips. The author does not have the expertise to make it mobile-friendly, and makes no apologies for that.

Operating system

Primary development machine runs ArcaOS (OS/2 successor) with JFS filesystem. Windows 11 is used for MiKTeX TeX builds.

Text editor

HTML is edited directly. No WYSIWYG editor is used for web pages.

TeX engine

XeLaTeX (part of MiKTeX) is used for all shirt source files. XeLaTeX is required for Hebrew and right-to-left text support via the bidi package. LuaLaTeX was considered but does not support bidi.

Chemical structure diagrams

The chemfig package is used for benzene ring diagrams in the Para DICE, Ortho DOX / Para DOX, and Meta phore shirt sources. All rings use Kekulé notation (alternating single and double bonds, specified via chemfig’s *6(…) syntax with double bond sep=4pt); the aromatic circle notation is not used. The ortho, meta, and para positions follow standard arene substitution nomenclature consistently across all three designs. Die faces in Para DICE are drawn with TikZ.

Shirt production pipeline

TeX and LibreOffice sources in shirts/ are built to 10″×10″ PDFs via XeLaTeX or LibreOffice export, then converted to 300 DPI PNG for upload to CaféPress. PDF-to-PNG conversion uses Poppler (pdftoppm).

The following table records the original authoring tool for each shirt and its current canonical source. Where both ODT and TeX exist, the TeX source is preferred for version control; the ODT is retained until a successful 10″×10″ build from TeX is verified.

Shirt	Original tool	Canonical source	Notes
My other car is an A-10	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	car.A-10.tex	ODT converted to TeX 2026-08-26; ODT had no embedded image, added to match deployed web page; ODT retained pending verified build
My other car is an SR-71	LaTeX	car.SR-71.tex	Written ab initio in TeX 2026-05-02; web page hotlinks Wikimedia 960px thumbnail; local backup: web/Images/SR-71_Blackbird_960px.jpg; high-res shirt source: personal/shirts/SR-71_Blackbird.jpg
Ortho DOX / Para DOX	LaTeX	DOX.tex	Written ab initio in TeX
Para DICE	LaTeX	Dice.tex	Written ab initio in TeX; die faces added 2026-05-02
Dirac wave equation	LaTeX	Dirac.tex	Written ab initio in TeX; filename normalized from dirac.tex
Duma Dork	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Dumadork.tex	ODT converted to TeX 2026-08-11; ODT retained pending verified build
Euler (Trigonometry)	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Euler.tex	Originally Euler.odt; TeX version built and verified 10×10, 1 page 2026-08-26 (was silently overflowing to 3 pages -- portrait image had no explicit size, so its embedded 300 DPI metadata made scale=.5 render it ~10in tall by itself); ODT retained pending final review
GOP (Party of Treason)	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	GOP.tex	ODT converted to TeX; source images now present, built and verified 10×10 2026-08-26; ODT retained pending final review
GR field equations	LaTeX	GR.tex	Written ab initio in TeX
Hessian	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Hessian.tex	ODT converted to TeX (pre-existing); switched from Garamond-Math to Cambria/Cambria Math 2026-08-26 (neither the original font nor the first two substitutes tried -- Latin Modern Math, TeX Gyre Termes Math -- are registered as OS fonts on the build machine, only present as MiKTeX LaTeX packages, which fontspec/XeTeX can't resolve by name; Cambria is a standard Windows font). Built and verified 10×10 from source. ODT retained pending final review
Houseboat	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Houseboat.tex	ODT converted to TeX (pre-existing); source image (LakeUnionHouseboat.jpg) was missing from shirts/, copied over from web/Images/; built and verified 10×10 2026-08-26; ODT retained pending final review
Meta phore	LaTeX	Metaphore.tex	Written ab initio in TeX; filename normalized from metaphore.tex
Emmy Noether	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Noether.tex	ODT converted to TeX 2026-08-26; author list updated to the current 8-name canonical list (ODT predated Ladyzhenskaya/Viazovska/Voisin additions); ODT retained pending verified build
Butcher of Bucha (Puta)	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Puta.tex	ODT converted to TeX; ODT retained pending verified build
Qohelet	LaTeX	Qohelet.tex	Written ab initio in TeX; requires XeLaTeX for Hebrew (Noto Serif Hebrew). Main font switched from TeX Gyre Termes to Times New Roman 2026-08-26 -- TeX Gyre Termes is a MiKTeX LaTeX package, not registered as an OS font on the build machine, so it couldn't be resolved by name; Times New Roman is what the design used originally anyway. Built and verified 10×10 from source
RFC 1149	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	RFC1149.tex	ODT converted to TeX 2026-08-26; ODT's embedded image was an unsourced stock photo, replaced with the properly-attributed NARA-512434 image already used on the web page; ODT retained pending verified build
Can You Cache a Small Czech?	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	SmallCzech.odt	TeX version not yet written
Support Our Troops	LaTeX	Support.The.Troops.tex	Written ab initio in TeX 2026-05-02
Woke	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	Woke.tex	ODT converted to TeX 2026-08-26; design by Marianne Gelfand Metz; ODT retained pending verified build
Large Cardinal	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	large.cardinal.odt	TeX version not yet written; source missing from archive — locate on thumb drive
Integral (Visual Pun)	OpenOffice/LibreOffice	integral.odt	TeX version not yet written

AI-assisted authoring

Session notes, HTML pages, TeX sources, and scripts in this project were developed with the assistance of Claude (Anthropic), specifically Claude Sonnet, via claude.ai. Session logs and correction rules are maintained in AI-Priming.

Deployment scripts

Build and deployment scripts are written in ooRexx (Open Object Rexx), with compatibility maintained for OBJREXX 6.00 on ArcaOS.

Version control

Git, hosted at github.com/shmuelmetz (private repository). ODT files are stored in the repository as binary blobs for backup purposes only; diffs and merges are not meaningful for ODT. TeX sources are the preferred format for source control.

Fonts

Web pages

Web pages use the browser’s default serif font. No web fonts are loaded; no external font service is contacted.

Shirt sources (TeX)

Times New Roman

Used as the main body font in Qohelet and Support Our Troops. Supplied by MiKTeX via the fontspec package under XeLaTeX. Times New Roman is a proprietary typeface; it is present on Windows and included in MiKTeX distributions for TeX use.

Noto Serif Hebrew

Used for Hebrew text in the Qohelet shirt. Designed by Google Noto; licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Free for any use including commercial print. Fallbacks: Frank Rühl Libre, David, SBL Hebrew.

Frank Rühl Libre

Hebrew serif typeface; listed as a fallback for Noto Serif Hebrew in the Qohelet shirt. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Available via Google Fonts.

Images

The following table lists all images used on this site, their sources, licenses, and attribution requirements. Images are stored in web/Images/ unless otherwise noted.

Creative Commons licences: CC0 requires no attribution. CC BY 4.0 and CC BY-SA 3.0 require attribution; BY-SA additionally requires that derivative works be licensed under the same terms. CC BY-SA 3.0 DE is the German-law port of CC BY-SA 3.0.

Portraits and photographs

Political figures

Animals

Aircraft

RFC 1149

Miscellaneous

Book and magazine covers (Favorite Things)

The following images are used as small thumbnails in My Favorite Things, My Favorite Harpers and My Favorite Shards to illustrate references in a parody filk song. Use is for non-commercial commentary on a personal site.

Note: Several filenames suggest Amazon product image URLs (0671319752-lg.jpg, 81UzbZbGPUL._SL1500_.jpg, etc.). Amazon product images are not licensed for redistribution and must be replaced with publisher-provided images or Wikimedia Commons equivalents before this site can be considered fully compliant.

Text Sources

Scripture

Mechon-Mamre

Source for the Hebrew text of Qohelet (Ecclesiastes) 1:9–10 used in the Qohelet shirt. Mechon-Mamre presents the Westminster Leningrad Codex (Masoretic Text), which is in the public domain. No attribution is required by Mechon-Mamre for quotation of the biblical text itself; the site is credited as a courtesy source.

Bible Gateway (KJV)

Source for John 14:2 quoted in spoilers.html. The King James Version (1611) is in the public domain.

Poetry

Tommy — Rudyard Kipling, 1890

Linked from the Support Our Troops shirt page. Published 1890; in the public domain.

The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling, 1890

Linked from the Support Our Troops shirt page. Published 1890; in the public domain.

Andrea del Sarto — Robert Browning, 1855

Source of the epigraph Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for? quoted in spoilers.html in the explanation of the Meta phore shirt. Published 1855; in the public domain.

Standards and technical documents

RFC 1149 — IETF, 1990

A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers. Referenced in the RFC 1149 shirt. IETF RFCs are freely reproducible; no permission is required to link to or quote from them.

Songs (parody sources)

The following songs are the originals parodied in the verse pages on this site. All links lead to publicly available texts. The parody works on this site are original compositions and are not reproductions of the source lyrics.

Johnny Verbeck (traditional folk song)

Parodied in Donald Verbeck.

Mañana — Peggy Lee, 1947

Parodied in PUT Process.

Anatevka — Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick, from Fiddler on the Roof, 1964

Parodied in Anatevka.

I’m Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, from South Pacific, 1949

Parodied in GOP Treason.

Willow, Tit-Willow — W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, from The Mikado, 1885

Parodied in Lying “Fake News”. Published 1885; in the public domain.

Charlie Brown — The Coasters (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller), 1959

Parodied in Michael Braun.

Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? — Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner, from My Fair Lady, 1956

Parodied in Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?

My Favorite Things — Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, from The Sound of Music, 1959

Parodied in My Favorite Things, My Favorite Harpers and My Favorite Shards.

Danny Boy (air: Londonderry Air, traditional; lyrics: Frederic Weatherly), 1913

Parodied in Oh Dúnedain, the Rings, the Rings Are Calling and Oh Manticore, the Peeps, the Peeps Are Calling. Reference lyric text: Irish Song Lyrics — “Danny Boy”.

License Summary

All original content on this site — text, shirt designs, verse, and HTML — is copyright © Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.

Third-party material is used under the terms documented above. Where a Creative Commons licence applies, the terms are those of the specific version and jurisdiction noted. Where material is in the public domain, that status is recorded in the image and text source tables above.

This site does not use tracking, analytics, advertising, or external font services. No third-party scripts are loaded.