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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 ($dag$ 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	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	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 and 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 and 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, Andr´e 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 and Oren Patashnik     [Advanced — inserting a custom separator between fields in bibliography entries]	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
TUG Business
TUG 2019 election   TUG Elections committee	307
News
Calendar	308