The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 36:3, 2015
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| Complete issue 36:3 as one pdf (41mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the Board of Directors
TUG Board [Reports and notices — suspension of the TUG President] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] |
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| Adrian Frutiger, 1928–2015
Norbert Preining Another memoriam to Frutiger, by Erich Alb, published in Visible Language. |
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| Thomas Koch, 1964–2014
Joachim Schrod |
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| DANTE e.V. 2015 meeting reports
Stefan Kottwitz |
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| Education | |
| TeX in schools: Just Say Yes!
Simon Laube [Introductory — benefits of using LaTeX in schools, for students and teachers] |
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| Fonts | |
| Smoky letters
Linus Romer [Intermediate — randomized but still elegant capital D for a copperplate `Danke'] |
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| About the DK versions of Lucida
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — squarish capital `O' for Don Knuth, in Lucida Grande Mono and Lucida Console] Another historical article including use of superellipses was found after this issue was published: One approach to computer assisted letter design, by H.W. Mergler and P.M. Vargo. Journal of Typographic Research, Vol.2 (No.4), October 1968, pp.299-322. See figures 9 and 10. (The same issue includes articles by Hermann Zapf, John Seybold, and others.) |
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| Publishing | |
| History of cookbooks
Taco Hoekwater [Introductory — from ancient Greece to allrecipes.com] |
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| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — usability of digital typography; hierarchy and balance; Emacs on Android] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 22, January 2015
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — new LaTeX2e bug-fix policy, updates to the kernel, hyperlinked documentation] |
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| LaTeX news, issue 23, October 2015
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — enhanced support for LuaTeX, more floats and inserts, updated Unicode data, pre-release releases] |
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| Introduction to list structures in LaTeX
Thomas Thurnherr [Introductory — basic list usage and packages for additional control] |
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| gradstudentresume: A document class for graduate student CVs
Anagha Kumar [Intermediate — a new class for academic CVs, and practical tips on creating classes] |
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| Glisterings: Longest string; marching along; a blank argument; a centered table of contents
Peter Wilson even/odd arguments, list indexing, memoir toc typesetting, and more |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Chemistry in LaTeX2e—an overview of existing packages and possibilities
Clemens Niederberger [Intermediate Plus — overview of chemmacros, mhchem, chemformula, and more] |
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| Automating LaTeX(3) testing
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — continous testing with Travis-CI and a minimal TeX Live] |
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| Two applications of SWIGLIB: GraphicsMagick and Ghostscript
Luigi Scarso [Advanced — loading binary modules for performance and generality] |
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| Macros | |
| Typesetting the “Begriffsschrift” by Gottlob Frege in plain TeX
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — handling the unusual mathematical notation invented by Frege] |
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| GMOA, the `General Manipulation Of Arguments': An extension to the l3expan package of the expl3 bundle and language
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Advanced — a DFA-based generalization of expl3's l3expan] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Production notes
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — editing Unicode text requiring a special font for PUA characters in Emacs] |
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| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–October 2015] |
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| Reviews | |
| An online glossary of typographic terms by Janie Kliever
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this pictorial glossary] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Abstracts | |
| GUST: EuroBachoTeX 2014 | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 4/2015 | |
| Cartoon | |
| A summons
Jim Benton |
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