The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 31:2, 2010
The Communications of |
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Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.
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Videos of many of the presentations are available, thanks to Kaveh Bazargan and River Valley Technologies.
| Complete issue 31:2 as one pdf (10mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2010 conference information
participants, sponsors, thanks |
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| TUG 2010 | |
| TUG 2010 conference report
David Walden [Introductory — notable events and a table showing the breadth of presentations] |
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| An Earthshaking Announcement
Donald Knuth [Introductory — iTeX*] (The video has extra features.) |
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| TUG 2010 Panel: Don Knuth & Stanford TeX Project members
David Walden [Introductory — edited transcript of the panel discussion] |
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| Thoughts on TUG 2010
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — reflections on the 25 anniversary conference] |
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| Resources | |
| CTAN packages get keywords
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — keywords and topical characterizations of all CTAN packages] |
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| LaTeX | |
| From PostScript to PDF with epstopdf, pdftricks, pst-pdf, auto-pst-pdf, pst2pdf, and more
Herbert Voß [Intermediate — using PSTricks, EPS images, et al., while creating PDF output] |
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| Improving margin paragraphs
Stephen Hicks [Advanced — avoiding marginal notes off the bottom of the page, and more] |
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| Education | |
| Using LaTeX to generate dynamic mathematics worksheets for the web
Pavneet Arora [Intermediate — mathematical practice as a learning strategy for grade school mathematics] |
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| Publishing | |
| Writing the first LaTeX book
Walter Gander [Intermediate — first use of LaTeX for a book, a numerical analysis textbook in German] |
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| TeX helps you learn Chinese character meanings
Alan Hoenig [Intermediate — design and production of ezchinesey.com books] |
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| Expanding Horizons | |
| Classes, styles, conflicts: The biological realm of LaTeX
Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — an extended analogy between LaTeX and biological organisms and viruses] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| TeX Live 2010 news
Karl Berry [Introductory — summary of notable changes in the TeX Live 2010 software release] |
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| LuaTeX 0.60: An overview of changes
Taco Hoekwater, Hartmut Henkel [Intermediate — notable changes since LuaTeX 0.40: CWEB, .ttc support, more] |
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| LuaTeX: PDF merging
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — merging PDF images, with links and layers, in LuaTeX and ConTeXt] |
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| The TeX paragraph builder in Lua
Hans Hagen [Advanced — reimplementing the TeX line breaking algorithm in Lua] |
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| Thirty years of literate programming and more?
Bart Childs [Intermediate — introduction to, experiences with, state of literate programming] |
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| Dynamic reporting with R/Sweave and LaTeX
Uwe Ziegenhagen [Intermediate Plus — integration and literate programming of LaTeX with the statistical programming language R] |
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| A web-based TeX previewer: The ecstasy and the agony
Michael Doob [Intermediate Plus — constructing a security-conscious on-line TeX previewer] texwebviewer.tex companion source |
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| Language Support | |
| Qur'ānic typography comes of age: Æsthetics, layering, and paragraph optimization in ConTeXt
Idris Hamid [Advanced — advanced Arabic typography in the Oriental TeX project] |
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| Graphics | |
| Asymptote: Interactive TeX-aware 3D vector graphics
John Bowman [Intermediate Plus — advances in Asymptote's 3D processing and more] |
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| Drawing structured diagrams with SDDL
Mathieu Bourgeois, Roger Villemaire [Intermediate Plus — producing diagrams for discrete mathematics and computer science] |
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| Fonts | |
| Unicode mathematics in LaTeX: Advantages and challenges
Will Robertson [Intermediate Plus — background, current fonts, and futures for Unicode math typesetting] |
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| Math never seen
Johannes Küster [Intermediate — quality criteria for mathematical symbols, with many examples and a proposal for a new gcd symbol] |
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| Are virtual fonts obsolete?
Boris Veytsman [Advanced — modern uses for virtual fonts, with discussion of fonts in XeTeX] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| TeX in the GLAMP world: On-demand creation of documents online
Boris Veytsman, Leyla Akhmadeeva [Intermediate — creation of medical pedigrees via the web, and initial educational use] |
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| LaTeX profiles as objects in the category of markup languages
William Hammond [Intermediate Plus — reliable automatic translations between markup languages] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2010 abstracts
Kaveh Bazargan, William Cheswick, Jean-Luc Doumont, Steve Grathwohl, David Ruddy, Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater, John Hobby, Jonathan Kew, Frank Mittelbach, Ross Moore, Chris Rowley, Robert Rundell |
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| Sponsors | |
| Addison-Wesley; von Hoerner&Sulger; Cheryl Ponchin Training; River Valley Technologies; Principiae; University Science Books | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| TUG 2011 election
Jim Hefferon |
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