The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 32:2, 2011
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| Complete issue 32:2 as one pdf (6.3mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Editorial information | |
| Title page | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — software; conferences; interviews] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Boris=books; EuroBachoTeX 2011; 150 years at the US Government Printing Office; The raster tragedy |
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| Software & Tools | |
| TeX Collection 2011 DVD
TeX Collection editors [Introductory — very high-level overview of changes in the 2011 software releases] |
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| TeXworks—As you like it
Stefan Löffler [Intermediate — new scripting and other features in TeXworks 0.4] |
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| MetaPost 1.750: Numerical engines
Taco Hoekwater [Advanced — supporting back-end numerical libraries, MPFR and decNumber] |
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| Reading and executing source code
Herbert Voß [Intermediate Plus — typesetting and executing LaTeX and other source] |
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| Education | |
| Teaching LaTeX to the students of mathematics—the experience from The Jan Kochanowski University
Krzysztof Pszczoła [Introductory — experiences with and approaches to teaching LaTeX] |
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| Graphics | |
| Drawing tables: Graphic fun with LuaTeX
Paul Isambert [Intermediate Plus — using Lua for drawing, with PDF output] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| E-books: Old wine in new bottles
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — reflections on using and producing ebooks, especially with ConTeXt] |
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| iTeX—Document formatting in an ereader world
William Cheswick [Intermediate — producing bundles for practical iPad reading] |
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| Fonts | |
| Math alphabets and the mathalfa package
Michael Sharpe [Intermediate — survey of and package for available math script, double-struck, and fraktur fonts] |
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| Another incarnation of Lucida: Towards Lucida OpenType
Ulrik Vieth, Mojca Miklavec [Intermediate — review of font technologies and a new implementation of Lucida] |
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| MFLua
Luigi Scarso [Advanced — integrating Lua into Metafont for post-processing glyphs] |
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| Macros | |
| Macro interfaces and the getoptk package
Michael Le Barbier Grünewald [Intermediate Plus — survey of macro interfaces; implementing a new keyword interface for plain TeX] |
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| LaTeX | |
| The cals package: Multipage tables with decorations
Oleg Parashchenko [Intermediate Plus — an advanced table package] |
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| Publishing | |
| Glisterings: Ornaments with the Web-O-Mints font
Peter Wilson |
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| LaTeX | |
| Merciadri packages: An overview
Luca Merciadri [Intermediate — bigints; dashundergaps; plantslabels; matrices with borders] |
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| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Paper setup
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate — predefined and custom page and print sizes in ConTeXt] |
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| Bibliographies | |
| Experiences with notes, references, and bibliographies
David Walden [Intermediate — a variety of practical approaches to bibliographies, with many examples] |
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| Typography | |
| Sixty years of book design at St. Gallen, Switzerland
Paul Shaw [Intermediate — discussion of this design exhibition, with many examples] Reprinted from Print magazine's online newsletter, Imprint. |
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| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: A Specimen Portfolio of Wood Type in the Cary Collection
William Adams [Introductory — review of collection of wood type specimens (RIT Press)] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Book review: The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century, by Jerry Kelly
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — review of this typography book (RIT Press)] |
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| Book review: LaTeX Beginner's Guide, by Stefan Kottwitz
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — review of this introductory book (Packt Publishers)] |
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| An appreciation: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, by Donald E. Knuth
David Walden [Introductory — discussion of Knuth's magnum opus (Addison-Wesley)] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–July 2011] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 54–55 (2010) | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 2/2011 | |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 20(4) (2010) | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| Letters | |
| Status of the American core CTAN node
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — web view of CTAN enhanced with extra characterizations] |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |
| TUG 2011 announcement | |