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TUGboat 34:1, 2013

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Complete issue 34:1 as one pdf (4.3mb) 
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
Ab epistulis 
  Steve Peter      [Introductory — CTAN; conferences; interviews and reviews]
 3 
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    This is the year for TeX bug reports;     Don Knuth in the news (again);     A new TeX calendar;     Compulsive Bodoni / the Parmigiano Typographic System;     Printing technology, old and new;     Interactive and collaborative on-line LaTeX
 4 
 
Resources
CTAN: Relaunch of the Web portal 
  Gerd Neugebauer      [Introductory — announcement and description of a new www.ctan.org]
 6 
 
Fonts
Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! 
  Bob Tennent      [Introductory — Quattrocentro, Cabin, EB Garamond, Libertine/Biolinum; implementation notes]
 10 
 
Typography
Typographers' Inn 
  Peter Flynn      [Intermediate — Font installer; class and package creation; grids; business cards; running ragged]
 14 
 
Graphics
Entry-level MetaPost: On the grid 
  Mari Voipio      [Introductory — building up a graphic step by step, with troubleshooting tips]
 17 
Recreating historical patterns with MetaPost 
  Mari Voipio      [Intermediate — Greek keys, Roman mosaics, Celtic knots and keys]
 21 
The xpicture package 
  Robert Fuster      [Intermediate Plus — extending LaTeX's picture environment and related packages]
 26 
 
LaTeX
Side-by-side figures in LaTeX 
  Thomas Thurnherr      [Introductory — using minipage; subfigure; subfig; subcaption; columns in beamer]
 34 
Glisterings: Repetition; verbatims; small pages; prefixing section heads 
  Peter Wilson 
 37 
The esami package for examinations 
  Grazia Messineo, Salvatore Vassallo      [Intermediate Plus — creating tests, exercises, etc., supporting random choice of parameters]
 40 
 
Dreamboat
E-TeX: Guidelines for future TeX extensions—revisited 
  Frank Mittelbach      [Advanced — in-depth analysis of open TeX typesetting issues]
 47 
 
Software & Tools
LuaJITTeX 
  Luigi Scarso      [Advanced — TeX, Lua, and just-in-time compilation]
 64 
 
ConTeXt
ConTeXt: Just-in-time LuaTeX 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — performance tests and analysis of JIT and different Lua versions]
 72 
ConTeXt basics for users: Images 
  Aditya Mahajan      [Intermediate — local and remote image inclusion, scaling, rotation, debugging]
 79 
 
Macros
New CSplain of 2012 
  Petr Olšák      [Intermediate Plus — many new features in Czech/Slovak TeX—more languages, encodings, fonts, etc.]
 83 
OPmac: Macros for plain TeX 
  Petr Olšák      [Intermediate Plus — font selection, tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies, margins, etc.]
 88 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, November 2012–March 2013]
 96 
Production notes 
  Karl Berry      [Reports and notices — sketch of current TUGboat printing; introduction to “Colophon”]
 97 
 
Book Reviews
Book review: The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX, by Victor Eijkhout 
  Boris Veytsman 
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 98 
 
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 4/2012–1/2013   99 
Eutypon: Contents of issue 28–29 (October 2012)   100 
 
News
Calendar   101 
TUG 2013 announcement   102 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   103 
 
TUG Business
TUG membership form   105 
TUG financial statements for 2012 
  Karl Berry 
 106 
TUG 2013 election 
  Barbara Beeton 
 107 
 
Fiction
Colophon 
  Daniel Quinn 
 108 

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