The Communications of
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TUGboat 35:2, 2014
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| Complete issue 35:2 as one pdf (7.2mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2014 | |
| TUG 2014 conference information
sponsors and participants |
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| TUG 2014 conference program | |
| TUG 2014 photos | |
| TUG 2014 in Portland
David Latchman conference report |
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| Visiting TUG 2014
Tracy Kidder (on last page of report) |
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| Fonts | |
| Recent additions to TeX's font repertoire
Michael Sharpe [Introductory — Garamonds, Baskervilles, typewriter fonts, sans serif, and more] |
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| Publishing | |
| Experiences converting from PDF-only to paper
Jim Hefferon, Lon Mitchell [Introductory — offering an online textbook in print for the first time] |
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| Texinfo visits a garden
Joseph Hogg [Introductory — producing an annotated, indexed, plant list for the Huntington's Herb Garden] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| MacTeX design philosophy vs. TeXShop design philosophy
Richard Koch [Intermediate Plus — Global vs. LocalTeX PrefPane for the Mac, and Apple histories] |
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| TeX Live Utility: A slightly-shiny Mac interface for TeX Live Manager (tlmgr)
Adam Maxwell [Intermediate Plus — a MacOSX graphical interface for tlmgr] |
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| On tracing the trip test with JSBox
Doug McKenna [Advanced — accurate and complete tracing as part of developing a new TeX interpreter] JSBox slides, literac slides |
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| Creating (mathematical) jigsaw puzzles using TeX and friends
Julian Gilbey [Intermediate — educational puzzles creating using TeX, Python, YAML, et al.] |
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| SUTRA—A workflow for documenting signals
Pavneet Arora [Intermediate Plus — using YAML and ConTeXt tables for generalized signal documentation] |
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| Graphics | |
| Typesetting figures for computer science
Andrew Mertz, William Slough, Nancy Van Cleave [Intermediate Plus — practical packages for drawing stacks, byte fields, trees, automata, and more] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Dynamic documents
David Allen [Intermediate Plus — using R's tikzDevice to generate graphical output in LaTeX] |
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| Typography | |
| Typography and readability: An experiment with post-stroke patients
Leyla Akhmadeeva, Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — serif vs. sans serif for readers with cognitive impairments from stroke] |
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| Macros | |
| TeX and copyediting
S.K. Venkatesan, CV Rajagopal [Intermediate — copyediting markup to improve consistency and communication] |
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| An output routine for an illustrated book: Making the FAO Statistical Yearbook
Boris Veytsman [Advanced — when illustrations are primary and text is secondary] code as pdf, code as dtx, github |
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| Electronic Publishing | |
| xml2tex: An easy way to define XML-to-LaTeX converters
Keiichiro Shikano [Advanced — a Scheme program to use LaTeX as an effective XML presentation layer] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| MathBook XML
Robert A. Beezer [Intermediate — writing technical documents with many possible output formats and online integration] |
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| Electronic Publishing | |
| Can LaTeX profiles be rendered adequately with static CSS?
William Hammond [Advanced — using pure CSS to handle math from LaTeX profiles in, e.g., GELLMU] in HTML |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2014 abstracts
Kaveh Bazargan, Karl Berry, David Crossland, Ward Cunningham, Paulo Ney de Souza, Michael Doob, David Farmer, Doug McKenna, Frank Mittelbach, Ross Moore, Dan Raies, Will Robertson, Etienne Tétreault-Pinard, Alan Wetmore Wiki created by Ward Cunningham at and for the conference |
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| Let's Learn LaTeX: A hack-to-learn ebook
S Parthasarathy |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Fifty Typefaces That Changed The World, by John Walters
Jeffrey Barnett [Reports and notices — review of this art book, with personal commentary on the omission of Computer Modern] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2015 election
Kaja Christiansen TUG election information online |
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| Institutional members | |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |