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Complete issue 40:1 as one pdf (4.2mb)
Front cover	c1
Inside front cover	c2
Contents ordered by difficulty	c3
Title page	1
Editorial information	2
TUG Business
Institutional members	2
General Delivery
From the president    Boris Veytsman      [Introductory — thoughts on changes, fast and slow]	3
Editorial comments    Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]      A memorial for SPQR;   Project support from UK-TUG and TUG;   Installing historic TeX Live on Unix;   Converting images to LaTeX: mathpix.com;   Fonts, fonts, fonts! (Helvetica Now, Study, Public Sans, Brill diacritics, Berlin typography)	4-5
Noob to Ninja: The challenge of taking beginners' needs into account when teaching LaTeX    Sarah Lang, Astrid Schmölzer      [Introductory — problems, solutions, and a manifesto to help all new users]	5-9
Tutorials
The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Processing text files to get LaTeX tables    Carla Maggi      [Intermediate — errata, Cinderella topics, using csvsimple to produce tables from data]	10-13
Accessibility
No hands—the dictation of LaTeX    Mike Roberts      [Intermediate — mathfly.org add-on to Dragon speech recognition for math]	14-16
Nemeth braille math and LaTeX source as braille    Susan Jolly      [Intermediate — braille examples of math vs. LaTeX source; software project guide]	17-21
Software & Tools
Both TeX and DVI viewers inside the web browser    Jim Fowler      [Intermediate Plus — compiling Pascal to WebAssembly to run ε-TeX in a browser, including TikZ]	22-24
Markdown 2.7.0: Towards lightweight markup in TeX    Vít Novotný      [Intermediate Plus — a Lua command-line interface, doc, and content slicing support for markdown]	25-27
New front ends for TeX Live    Siep Kroonenberg      [Intermediate — standalone Tcl/Tk-based GUIs for the TL installer and tlshell for tlmgr]	28-29
TinyTeX: A lightweight, cross-platform, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live    Yihui Xie      [Intermediate — on-the-fly TeX Live package installation for R users]	30-32
Extending primitive coverage across engines    Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — \expanded and other primitives available in pdfTeX, XeTeX, (u)pTeX]	33
ConTeXt LMTX    Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — LuaMetaTeX, a minimized engine for future ConTeXt and other experiments]	34-37
Bringing world scripts to LuaTeX: The HarfBuzz experiment    Khaled Hosny      [Advanced — extended discussion of using HarfBuzz to shape text for LuaTeX output]	38-43
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 29, December 2018    LaTeX Project Team	44-46
Glossaries with bib2gls    Nicola Talbot      [Intermediate Plus — indexing infrastructure with glossaries-extra and/or using .bib format]	47-60
TeX.StackExchange cherry picking, part 2: Templating    Enrico Gregorio      [Advanced — extended expl3 programming examples: templating and double loops, ISBN, catcode tables, and more]	61-68
Real number calculations in LaTeX: Packages    Joseph Wright      [Intermediate — user-level comparison of floating point arithmetic packages, recommending xfp]	69-70
Macros
Real number calculations in TeX: Implementations and performance    Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — precision, accuracy, and performance comparison of existing floating point arithmetic packages]	71-75
Electronic Documents
TeX4ht: LaTeX to Web publishing    Michal Hoftich      [Intermediate Plus — configuring HTML, XML, … generation with TeX4ht and make4ht]	76-81
TUGboat online, reimplemented    Karl Berry      [Intermediate Plus — (re)generation of TUGboat tables of contents and accumulated lists]	82-84
Book Reviews
Book review: Never use Futura by Douglas Thomas    Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this wide-ranging book on the history and design of Futura]      See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.	85-87
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie 1/2019	88
Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 2018/1–4	88
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest    Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2018–April 2019]	89-91
Cartoon
Comic: Punctuation headlines    John Atkinson       (On second page of pdf.)	91
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services	91-92
TUG Business
TUG financial statements for 2018    Karl Berry	93
TUG 2019 election    TUG Elections committee	94-95
News
Calendar	96