The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 38:2, 2017
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| Complete issue 38:2 as one pdf (19mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page
Errata: should be 38th annual conference, not 37th. |
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| TUG 2017 | |
| TUG 2017 conference information
organizers, sponsors, participants, program |
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| TUG 2017 conference program | |
| TUG@BachoTeX 2017
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Reports and notices — conference report, photos] |
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| General Delivery | |
| Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska
Janusz Nowacki [Introductory — a few words about and samples of the work by this superlative artist] |
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| Released sounds
Maciej Rychły [Introductory — paintings, music, stories] |
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| The state of TeX
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — address at the conference of the incoming TUG President] |
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| Futures | |
| Children of TeX
Hans Hagen [Introductory — premises, predilections, predictions for TeX, with reference to many books] |
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| MFLua 0.8 —Prologue
Luigi Scarso [Introductory — philosophical reflections on society and the TeX software family] |
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| Survey | |
| Off topic (completely): Many faces (and types) of beer
Michał Gasewicz [Introductory — notes on varieties at the TUG@BachoTeX 2017 beer tasting] |
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| History of accidentals in music
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — usage and typesetting of sharps, flats, etc., from ancient to modern music] |
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| Methods | |
| Bookbinding workshop: Making a portfolio
Willi Egger [Introductory — instructions for constructing an art folio, with diagrams] |
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| Debugging LaTeX files—Illegitimi non carborundum
Barbara Beeton [Intermediate Plus — editing, tracing, diagnosing, testing, puzzling] |
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| Typography | |
| Revealing semantics using subtle typography and punctuation
Kumaran Sathasivam, S.K. Venkatesan, Yakov Chandy [Introductory — punctuation history, redundancies, ambiguities, and resolutions] |
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| To justify or not to justify? Why bad typography may be harmful for your readers
Boris Veytsman, Leyla Akhmadeeva [Intermediate — experimental results of slower reading of \sloppy text than \raggedright] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Making ltxsparklines: The journey of a CTAN contributor into the world of CRAN
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — an R package to support Tufte sparklines (word-sized graphics) in LaTeX] |
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| Education | |
| TeX in Schools? Just Say Yes: The use of TeX at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk Univ.
Petr Sojka, Vít Starý Novotný [Intermediate — historical and current use at a large university in the Czech Republic] |
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| Graphics | |
| Implementing bioinformatics algorithms in TeX—the Gotoh package, a case study
Takuto Asakura [Intermediate — a sequence alignment algorithm in primitive TeX, optionally with texshade] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| updmap and fmtutil—past and future changes (or: cleaning up the mess)
Norbert Preining [Intermediate Plus — new usage, with new per-tree configuration and persisting across reinstallations] |
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| TLaunch, the TeX Live Launcher for Windows
Siep Kroonenberg [Intermediate — TeX Live configuration (editors, viewers, …) in a multi-user Windows installation] |
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| Xdvipsk: Dvips ready for OpenType fonts and more image formats
Sigitas Tolušis, Arūnas Povilaitis, Valentinas Kriaučiukas [Advanced — extending Dvips to support more bitmap formats and OpenType fonts, in a LuaTeX workflow] |
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| Fonts | |
| GUST e-foundry current font projects
Jerzy Ludwichowski [Intermediate — brief overview of current GUST OpenType projects, mostly math-related] |
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| Variable fonts
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — supporting variable fonts in LuaTeX and ConTeXt] |
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| Parametric math symbol fonts
Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk, Piotr Pianowski [Intermediate Plus — assembling OpenType math fonts from a text font and existing math symbols, with LuaTeX] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 27, April 2017
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — ISO 8601 date format; TU encoding improvements; Hyphenation; Default language; Line spacing in parboxes] |
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| LaTeX table columns with fixed widths
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — a convenient interface for fixed-width columns in LaTeX tables] |
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| Macros | |
| Using Markdown inside TeX documents
Vít Starý Novotný [Intermediate — generic support for Markdown input inside TeX, via Lunamark and Lua] |
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| GMS, the “General Meta-Scenarios”: A proper extension to the l3expan package of the expl3 bundle and language, two years later
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Advanced — a method for avoiding any redundant and verbose code] |
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| Bibliographies | |
| Typesetting bibliographies compliant with the ISO 690 standard in LaTeX
Dávid Lupták [Intermediate Plus — the biblatex-iso690 package and comparison with existing approaches] |
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| MlBibTeX now handles Unicode
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Intermediate Plus — per-bib file specification of encodings, and supporting Unicode] |
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| Publishing | |
| TeX user habits versus publisher requirements
Lolita Tolenė [Intermediate — study of programs and packages used in practice, and XML translation issues] |
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| Ten years of work in Wiadomości Matematyczne—an adventure with LaTeX and Emacs hacking
Marcin Borkowski [Intermediate — LaTeX and Emacs policies, workflow, and macros for the journal Wiadomości Matematyczne] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Production notes
Karl Berry [Intermediate — the rather helter-skelter TUGboat production process] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Streszczenia [Reports and notices — all abstracts, in Polish] | |
| TUG@BachoTeX 2017 abstracts
Paulo Ney de Souza, Willi Egger, Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater, Zunbeltz Izaola, Anna Beata Kwiatkowska, Jerzy Ludwichowski, Mojca Miklavec, Frank Mittelbach, Arthur Reutenauer, Przemysław Scherwentke, Damien Thiriet, Andrzej Tomaszewski, Adam Twardoch, Ulrik Vieth |
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| Die TeXnische Komödie 2/2017 | |
| Book Reviews | |
| Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing—The 20th century, Volume 2 (ch. 1–5)
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — second of three installments; chapter-by-chapter summaries for vol. 2 (1950–2000), ch. 1–5] Combined three-part review. |
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| What Is Reading For? and Some Reflections on Reading and Writing, Culture and Nature, & Sorting Things Out by Robert Bringhurst
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of these two thought-provoking works by Bringhurst] |
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| Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky
David Walden [Reports and notices — review of this book on the intertwined history of writing, printing, and paper] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–July 2017] |
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| Cartoon | |
| Word on the street
John Atkinson |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |