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TUGboat 34:3, 2013

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TUG 2013 Proceedings

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Complete issue 34:3 as one pdf (10mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   245 
 
TUG 2013
TUG 2013 conference information 
    sponsors, participants, thanks
 246-249 
TUG 2013 conference program   250-251 
TUG 2013 in Tokyo 
  Norbert Preining 
    conference report
 252-258 
 
Publishing
The incredible tale of the author who didn't want to do the publisher's job, … 
  Didier Verna (orcid     [Introductory — writing a book chapter on spec with TeX]
 259-262 
 
LaTeX
How to make a product catalogue that doesn't look like a dissertation 
  Jason Lewis      [Intermediate — practical database generation and layout problems, with recommended packages]
 263-267 
 
Multilingual Document Processing
Project Fandol: GPL fonts for Chinese typesetting 
  Clerk Ma, Jie Su      [Introductory — summary of a new free Chinese font family]
 268 
Tsukurimashou: A Japanese-language font meta-family 
  Matthew Skala      [Intermediate — motivation and implementation of a Metafont-based CJK family]
 269-278 
Braille fonts in Project Fandol 
  Clerk Ma      [Intermediate — history, relevant standards, and new Chinese Braille fonts]
 279-280 
Case study: Typesetting old documents of Japan 
  Ken Nakano, Hajime Kobayashi      [Intermediate — typesetting of Komonjo books published by Shiryo Hensan-jo with pTeX]
 281-284 
upTeX—Unicode version of pTeXwith CJK extensions 
  Takuji Tanaka      [Intermediate Plus — comparison of multilingual and other support in upTeX with other engines]
 285-288 
Typesetting and layout in multiple directions—Proposed solution 
  John Plaice      [Advanced — separating writing style from box direction in full generality]
 289-292 
 
Software & Tools
TeX Live Manager's rare gems: User mode and multiple repository support 
  Norbert Preining      [Intermediate Plus — managing user trees with tlmgr, and multiple sources for fetching packages]
 293-296 
Redistributing TeX and friends 
  Norbert Preining      [Intermediate Plus — handling TeX Live's configuration in a downstream distro]
 297-301 
A gentle introduction to PythonTeX 
  Andrew Mertz, William Slough      [Intermediate — using Python in documents for computation, plotting, web access, and more]
 302-312 
Online publishing via pdf2htmlEX 
  Lu Wang, Wanmin Liu      [Intermediate Plus — handling TeX Live's configuration in a downstream distro]
 313-324 
The XyMTeX system for publishing interdisciplinary chemistry/mathematics books 
  Shinsaku Fujita      [Advanced — basic usage and history of XyMTeX, an advanced chemical typesetting system]
 325-328 
TANSU—A workflow for cabinet layout 
  Pavneet Arora      [Intermediate — ConTeXt, Asymptote, YAML, and three-dimensional design and costing]
 329-331 
Bibulous—A drop-in BibTeX replacement based on style templates 
  Nathan Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — Unicode-based bibliography implementation in Python using explicit templates]
 332-339 
 
Bibliographies
The multibibliography package 
  Michael Cohen, Yannis Haralambous, Boris Veytsman (orcid     [Intermediate — simultaneous bibliographies by appearance, author, year, etc.]
 340-343 
 
Graphics
LaTeX and graphics: Basics and packages 
  Aleksandra Hankus, Zofia Walczak      [Intermediate — introduction to graphics usage with different engines, selected add-on packages]
 344-348 
Plots in LaTeX: Gnuplot, Octave, make 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid), Leyla Akhmadeeva      [Intermediate Plus — work flow for handling regeneration of complex plots]
 349-356 
Entry-level MetaPost 3: Color 
  Mari Voipio      [Introductory — outlining, filling, choosing colors, linear and circular shading [not a presentation at the conference]]
 357-359 
 
Abstracts
TUG 2013 abstracts 
  Jin-Hwan Cho, Hans Hagen, Shizuya Hakuta, Yoshifumi Maeda, Masataka Kaneko, Yasuhide Minoda, Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Ross Moore (orcid), Keiichiro Shikano, Yumi Takata, Yusuke Terada, Didier Verna (orcid), Alan Wetmore, Masafumi Yabe 
 360-362 
ConTeXt Group: Proceedings, 6th meeting (2012)   363 
MAPS: Contents of issue 44 (2013)   364 
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 3–4/2013   365 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry (orcid     [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, July–December 2013]
 366-367 
 
General Delivery
In memoriam: Jean-Pierre Drucbert (1947–2009) 
  Denis Bitouzé 
 367 
 
Book Reviews
Book review: Essential Knuth, by Edgar Daylight 
  David Walden      [Reports and notices — an extensive interview focused on Knuth's computer science achievements]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 368 
Book review: Introduction to LaTeX, by Leo Liu 
  Clerk Ma      [Reports and notices — a book on introduction to typesetting Chinese and Japanese with LaTeX]
 369 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   370 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   370-371 
 
News
Calendar   372 

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