The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 35:3, 2014
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| Complete issue 35:3 as one pdf (3.4mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| General Delivery | |
| Ab epistulis
Steve Peter [Introductory — upcoming election, conferences, TUGboat] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] TeX entomology; An alternative to tangle and weave; More Lucida fonts; More from Chuck Bigelow about Lucida; Erratum: “Online Publishing via pdf2htmlEX”, TUGboat 34:3; Peter Flynn's Formatting Information updated; |
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| A footnote about `Oh, oh, zero'
Donald Knuth [Introductory — notes on early typesetting of computer programs by ACM and Addison-Wesley] |
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| Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth [Intermediate — to celebrate the publication of TAOCP as eBooks] | |
| Letters | |
| A letter on the persistence of (e)books
Charles Bigelow [Introductory — the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, and Pierre-Simon Fournier] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX document class options
Thomas Thurnherr [Intermediate — options for the standard classes, and packages extending similar functionality] |
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| How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LaTeX?
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — explaining and working with the LaTeX float placement algorithm] |
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| Placing a full-width insert at the bottom of two columns
Barbara Beeton [Advanced — even on the first page of an article] |
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| biblatex variations
Ulrike Fischer [Intermediate — biblatex as a database: QR codes, PDF attachments, address lists] |
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| Every LaTeX document brings new programming issues
David Walden [Intermediate Plus — practical approaches for ellipses, blank verso pages, and photo album layout] |
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| Glisterings: Lining up
Peter Wilson Ruling off; Marginal rules; Preventing an awkward page break; Not at a page break; Line backing; Linespacing |
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| Resources | |
| CTAN goes multi-lingual: Additional language support for the Web portal
Gerd Neugebauer [Introductory — making ctan.org available in German, as an experiment] |
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| Fonts | |
| Obyknovennaya Novaya (Ordinary New Face) in Metafont
Basil Solomykov [Introductory — a reworking of a famous Cyrillic typeface, in several sizes and shapes] |
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| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| A simple Arabic typesetting system for mixed Latin/Arabic documents: ḍād
Yannis Haralambous [Advanced — supporting both transliteration and direct Unicode input of Arabic, using ligatures] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Visual editing (in a specialized case): prerex
Bob Tennent [Intermediate — a useful application for visual editing—charts of course prerequisites] |
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| l3build—A modern Lua test suite for TeX programming
Frank Mittelbach, Will Robertson, LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate Plus — regression testing for LaTeX, including typeset output] |
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| MetaPost path resolution isolated
Taco Hoekwater [Advanced — new interface in MPlib 1.800 for resolving paths from external programs] |
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| Macros | |
| Typeset MMIX programs with TeX
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — a TeX macro package to typeset (M)MIX(AL) programs] |
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| Bibliographies | |
| A Citation Style Language (CSL) workshop
Daniel Stender [Intermediate Plus — introduction to this XML-based language for programming citation and bibliography styles] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–September 2014] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Practical LaTeX, by George Grätzer
William Adams [Reports and notices — review of this introductory text on document production with LaTeX] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Book review: Apprendre à programmer en TeX, by Christian Tellechea
Jacques André [Reports and notices — review of this book in French on TeX as a programming language] |
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| Book review: The Imitation Game, by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis
Michael Berry [Reports and notices — review of this graphic novel about the life of Alan Turing] |
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| Book review: Let's Learn LaTeX, by S. Parthasarathy
Nicola Talbot [Reports and notices — review of this free ebook intended to assist learning LaTeX by example] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2–3/2014 | |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 57 (2012) | |
| TUG Business | |
| TeX Development Fund 2013 report
TeX Development Fund committee |
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| TUG 2015 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| TUG membership form | |
| Institutional members | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| News | |
| TUG 2015 announcement | |
| Calendar | |