The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 39:3, 2018
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 39:3 as one pdf (8.8mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 161 |
| Editorial information | 162 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 162 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — thoughts on (un)constrained funding] |
163 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Passings: Patricia Monohon (30 May 1941–6 April 2018), Vytas Statulevicius († July 2018) TeX and the history of desktop publishing Open season for lectures on typography Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Janson font W. A. Dwiggins—Making orders The Updike prize for student font designers A “brand” new font Updated link for the IEEE Annals issue table of contents. Related material, including preprints for the TeX papers, is available from Dave Walden's TeX history page. |
164-166 |
| TUGboat open-access survey results
TUG Board [Introductory — increasing open access to all but the current issue, with survey results] |
167 |
| TeXConf 2018 in Japan
Norbert Preining [Reports and notices — report on lively conference in Sapporo] |
168 |
| Typography | |
| The Cary Graphic Arts Collection
David Walden [Introductory — a brief overview of this remarkable printing, typography, and graphics collection] |
169-170 |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Monospace that fits; Centering (reprise); Afterthought] |
171-172 |
| Tutorials | |
| A beginner's guide to file encoding and TeXShop
Herbert Schulz, Richard Koch [Intermediate — introduction to file encodings, Unicode, and handling them in TeX(Shop)] |
173-176 |
| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Formatting posts
Carla Maggi [Introductory — upvoting behavior, Markdown-based formatting and PDF-to-image conversion] |
177-181 |
| Managing the paper trail of student projects: datatool and more
B. Tomas Johansson [Intermediate — step-by-step generation of typical student reports from .csv files] |
182-184 |
| Fonts | |
| Interview with Kris Holmes
David Walden [Intermediate — in-depth discussion of calligraphy, font design, and more, with many illustrations] |
185-203 |
| Science and history behind the design of Lucida
Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes [Intermediate — historical precedents, principles of reading, practical digital type design] |
204-211 |
| TeX Gyre text fonts revisited
Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Pianowski, Piotr Strzelczyk [Intermediate Plus — incorporating math and symbol glyphs into text fonts, and OpenType accent positioning] |
212-216 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| HINT: Reflowing TeX output
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate Plus — postponing TeX page rendering to a separate device, e.g., tablet] |
217-223 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Axessibility: Creating PDF documents with accessible formulae
D. Ahmetovic, T. Armano, C. Bernareggi, M. Berra, A. Capietto, S. Coriasco, N. Murru, A. Ruighi [Intermediate Plus — automatically making readable math formulae] |
224-227 |
| Improving the representation and conversion of mathematical formulae by considering the textual context
Moritz Schubotz, André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Norman Meuschke, Howard S. Cohl, Bela Gipp [Intermediate Plus — gold standard benchmark and metrics to evaluate (La)TeX to MathML tools] |
228-240 |
| Graphics | |
| Dednat6: An extensible (semi-)preprocessor for LuaLaTeX that understands diagrams in ASCII art
Eduardo Ochs [Intermediate Plus — a Forth-based language for 2D diagrams implemented in Lua] |
241-245 |
| LaTeX | |
| Managing forlorn paragraph lines (a.k.a. widows and orphans) in LaTeX
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate — finding all widows and orphans, and discussion of possible fixes] |
246-251 |
| The widows-and-orphans package
Frank Mittelbach [Advanced — documented implementation of the widows-and-orphans package in expl3] |
252-262 |
| The dashundergaps package
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — replacing material with underlines, with expl3 implementation] |
263-274 |
| Bibliographies | |
| State secrets in bibliography-style hacking
Karl Berry, Oren Patashnik [Advanced — inserting a custom separator between fields in bibliography entries] The ieeelike.bst example mentioned in the article. |
275 |
| Methods | |
| Experiments with \parfillskip
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — analysis of \parfillskip settings, aiming to minimize too-short or too-long last lines] |
276-303 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2018] |
304 |
| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2018 | 305 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 305-306 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2019 election
TUG Elections committee |
307 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 308 |