The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 37:2, 2016
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| Complete issue 37:1 as one pdf (28mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2016 | |
| Passport to the TeX canvas
Pavneet Arora |
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| TUG 2016 conference information
sponsors and participants |
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| TUG 2016 conference program | |
| TUG 2016 photos | |
| TUG 2016 in Toronto
Norbert Preining report on conference and excursions |
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| TUG 2016 Annual General Meeting informal report
Stefan Kottwitz |
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| General Delivery | |
| Sebastian Rahtz (1955–2016): A brief memoir
Lou Burnard |
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| R.I.P.—S.P.Q.R; Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz (13.2.1955–15.3.2016)
Frank Mittelbach |
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| Interview with Pavneet Arora
David Walden |
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| Typography | |
| Type in the Toronto subway
Joe Clark [Introductory — signage, typefaces, and (re)designs] |
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| Are justification and hyphenation good or bad for the reader? Preliminary experimental results
Leyla Akhmadeeva, Rinat Gizatullin, Boris Veytsman [Intermediate Plus — the (mixed) results of an initial experiment on reading speed and comprehension] |
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| Publishing | |
| An informal look into the history of digital typography
David Walden [Introductory — summary of longer online article on newspapers, individual use, algorithms, and more.] Dave's full article; comments welcome. |
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| Fonts | |
| A short history of the Lucida math fonts
Charles Bigelow [Introductory — development of math support in Lucida, 1980s to the present] |
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| New font offerings: Cochineal, Nimbus15, LibertinusT1Math
Michael Sharpe [Intermediate — new oldstyle, Greek/Cyrillic, and (La)TeX math fonts] |
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| MFCONFIG: A Metafont plug-in module for the Freetype rasterizer
Jaeyoung Choi, Sungmin Kim, Hojin Lee, Geunho Jeong [Advanced — using Metafont fonts in real time with FONTCONFIG and Freetype] |
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| Towards an operational (La)TeX package supporting optical scaling of dynamic mathematical symbols
Abdelouahad Bayar [Advanced — using a PS Type 3 font for per-equation delimiter sizes] |
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| LaTeX | |
| A LaTeX reference manual
Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — using and contributing to unofficial core LaTeX2e reference documentation] |
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| Astrological charts with horoscop and starfont
Matthew Skala [Intermediate — computing and creating beautiful astrological charts] |
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| Remaking the ACM LaTeX styles
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — refactoring design and implementation across ACM publications] |
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| Advances in PythonTeX with an introduction to fvextra
Geoffrey Poore [Intermediate Plus — automatic line breaking, variable substitution, string interpolation in verbatim] |
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| Development of an e-textbook using LaTeX and PStricks
David Tulett [Intermediate — rationale, implementation, open source publication of a new decision modeling textbook] The url for the e-textbook has changed from that stated in the article. |
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| Macros | |
| An Emacs-based writing workflow inspired by TeX and WEB, targeting the Web
Christian Gagné [Advanced — integrating macro-less and macro-rich notations for publishing] |
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| TeXcel? An unexpected use for TeX
Federico Garcia-De Castro [Intermediate Plus — advantages of TeX over spreadsheets for recording and reporting financial information] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Hyphenation in TeX and elsewhere, past and future
Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer [Intermediate — the hyph-utf8 pattern licenses and use in Unicode and other projects] |
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| Zebrackets: A score of years and delimiters
Michael Cohen, Blanca Mancilla, John Plaice [Advanced — striped parentheses and brackets; dynamic character generation philosophy] |
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| A Telegram bot for printing LaTeX files
Amartyo Banerjee, S.K. Venkatesan [Intermediate Plus — proof of concept Telegram bot for the Raspberry Pi] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Palatino: The natural history of a typeface by Robert Bringhurst
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this remarkable and beautiful book on Hermann Zapf's Palatino family] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder
David Walden [Reports and notices — review of this narrative nonfiction book on programming and programmers] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2016 abstracts
Kaveh Bazargan, Charles Bigelow, Robert Bringhurst, Jennifer Claudio, Tim Inkster, Stefan Kottwitz, Kevin Larson, Frank Mittelbach, Norbert Preining, Arthur Reutenauer |
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| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2016 Annual General Meeting minutes
Susan DeMeritt |
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| Report: Suspension of Kaveh Bazargan as TUG President
TUG Board |
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| TUG 2017 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| Institutional members | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |