The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 40:1, 2019
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| Complete issue 40:1 as one pdf (4.2mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — thoughts on changes, fast and slow] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] A memorial for SPQR; |
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| Noob to Ninja: The challenge of taking beginners' needs into account when teaching LaTeX
Sarah Lang, Astrid Schmölzer [Introductory — problems, solutions, and a manifesto to help all new users] |
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| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Processing text files to get LaTeX tables
Carla Maggi [Intermediate — errata, Cinderella topics, using csvsimple to produce tables from data] |
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| Accessibility | |
| No hands—the dictation of LaTeX
Mike Roberts [Intermediate — mathfly.org add-on to Dragon speech recognition for math] |
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| Nemeth braille math and LaTeX source as braille
Susan Jolly [Intermediate — braille examples of math vs. LaTeX source; software project guide] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Both TeX and DVI viewers inside the web browser
Jim Fowler [Intermediate Plus — compiling Pascal to WebAssembly to run ε-TeX in a browser, including TikZ] |
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| Markdown 2.7.0: Towards lightweight markup in TeX
Vít Starý Novotný [Intermediate Plus — a Lua command-line interface, doc, and content slicing support for markdown] |
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| New front ends for TeX Live
Siep Kroonenberg [Intermediate — standalone Tcl/Tk-based GUIs for the TL installer and tlshell for tlmgr] |
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| TinyTeX: A lightweight, cross-platform, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live
Yihui Xie [Intermediate — on-the-fly TeX Live package installation for R users] |
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| Extending primitive coverage across engines
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — \expanded and other primitives available in pdfTeX, XeTeX, (u)pTeX] |
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| ConTeXt LMTX
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — LuaMetaTeX, a minimized engine for future ConTeXt and other experiments] |
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| Bringing world scripts to LuaTeX: The HarfBuzz experiment
Khaled Hosny [Advanced — extended discussion of using HarfBuzz to shape text for LuaTeX output] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 29, December 2018
LaTeX Project Team |
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| Glossaries with bib2gls
Nicola Talbot [Intermediate Plus — indexing infrastructure with glossaries-extra and/or using .bib format] |
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| TeX.StackExchange cherry picking, part 2: Templating
Enrico Gregorio [Advanced — extended expl3 programming examples: templating and double loops, ISBN, catcode tables, and more] |
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| Real number calculations in LaTeX: Packages
Joseph Wright [Intermediate — user-level comparison of floating point arithmetic packages, recommending xfp] |
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| Macros | |
| Real number calculations in TeX: Implementations and performance
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — precision, accuracy, and performance comparison of existing floating point arithmetic packages] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| TeX4ht: LaTeX to Web publishing
Michal Hoftich [Intermediate Plus — configuring HTML, XML, … generation with TeX4ht and make4ht] |
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| TUGboat online, reimplemented
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — (re)generation of TUGboat tables of contents and accumulated lists] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Never use Futura by Douglas Thomas
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this wide-ranging book on the history and design of Futura] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 1/2019 | |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 2018/1–4 | |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2018–April 2019] |
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| Cartoon | |
| Comic: Punctuation headlines
John Atkinson (On second page of pdf.) |
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| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2018
Karl Berry |
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| TUG 2019 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |