The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 38:1, 2017
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| Complete issue 38:1 as one pdf (8.6mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| President's note
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — TUG news and reflections] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] *iTeX live!; LaTeX video tutorials; The Go fonts; Metafont at 32; From TUG'16, more from Joe Clark |
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| Interview with Scott Pakin
David Walden [Introductory — developer of many LaTeX packages and other TeX-related tools] |
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| What's a Professor of Neurology doing using LaTeX?
David Teplow [Introductory — personal history and experiences of LaTeX in a non-LaTeX world] |
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| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — Layouts; afterthought] |
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| Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing—The 20th century
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — chapter-by-chapter summaries of this set of extended essays; volume 1 of 2] Combined three-part review. |
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| Fonts | |
| SILE: A new typesetting system
Simon Cozens [Intermediate Plus — a new Lua typesetter using TeX algorithms, Unicode, and major libraries] |
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| BaskervilleF
Michael Sharpe [Intermediate — a revival of Fry's Baskerville, adapted from Libre Baskerville] |
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| General Delivery | |
| Programming LaTeX—A survey of documentation and packages
Brian Dunn [Introductory — resources for writing LaTeX packages and code] |
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| CTAN goes 2.0—New community features and more
Gerd Neugebauer [Introductory — user ratings and descriptions, activity reports, newsfeeds, and more] |
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| Tutorials | |
| An introduction to the LaTeX cross-referencing system
Thomas Thurnherr [Intermediate — built-in commands and useful packages: cleveref, varioref, hyperref, xr[-hyper], showlabels] |
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| How to use basic color models in LaTeX
Behzad Salimi [Intermediate — tutorial on RGB, CMYK, grayscale color model usage, and more] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| SageMathCloud for collaborative document editing and scientific computing
Hal Snyder [Intermediate — open-source web platform for real-time technical document collaboration] |
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| Producing HTML directly from LaTeX—the lwarp package
Brian Dunn [Intermediate Plus — modular and convenient system for producing HTML directly from LaTeX] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 26, January 2017
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — ε-TeX; default encodings in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX; \showhyphens; fixltx2e, latexbug, amsmath, tools] |
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| LaTeX3 news, issue 10, November 2016
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — l3build; automating expl3 testing; \lowercase and \uppercase; \parshape model; global pagination] |
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| A key/value interface for generating LaTeX floats —the keyfloat package
Brian Dunn [Intermediate Plus — overview of features of this package for convenient float specifications] |
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| Glisterings: Hanging; safety in numbers
Peter Wilson Overhangs; Paragraphs in equations; Superstitious enumerations |
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| Methods | |
| The optimal value for \emergencystretch
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — thorough discussion of the theory and practice of the third pass of line breaking] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, November 2016–March 2017] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| More Math Into LaTeX, 5th edition, by George Grätzer
Jim Hefferon [Reports and notices — review of this new edition of a classic LaTeX text] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types … by Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this comprehensive history of Bruce Rogers' famous Centaur type design] |
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| Track Changes, by Matthew G. Kirschenbaum
David Walden [Reports and notices — review of this study of numerous authors' stories of adopting writing software] |
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| Manuale Calligraphicum, David Pankow, ed.
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this beautiful collection of calligraphy by students of Hermann Zapf] |
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| Seminar review: Presenting data and information by Edward Tufte
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of and reflections on this seminar by the renowned Edward Tufte] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2016–1/2017 | |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 2015/3–4–2016/1–4 | |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 36–37 (October 2016) | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2016
Klaus Höppner |
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| TUG 2017 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| Cartoon | |
| File extensions (cartoon)
Randall Munroe |
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| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |