The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 41:1, 2020
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| Complete issue 41:1 as one pdf (4.1mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| Editorial information | 2 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 2 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — the Decameron and plagues of all centuries] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Our plague year; Updike Award for Student Type Design; |
4-6 |
| Reporting bugs for Don Knuth (as soon as possible)
Karl Berry [Introductory — please send in bug reports for the next TeX tuneup!] Slightly updated article on the web site. |
7 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Beyond Trip and Trap: Testing the urtext WEB sources
David Fuchs [Intermediate Plus — comprehensive range and other checking of DEK's original sources, via a custom toolchain] Slightly updated article on the web site. |
8-11 |
| Humanities | |
| Grapholinguistics, TeX, and a June 2020 conference
Yannis Haralambous [Intermediate — background of subject, annotated topic list, relationship to TeX] |
12-19 |
| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: You do not need to be Neo to cope with a TikZ matrix
Carla Maggi [Intermediate — graduated examples of TikZ matrices as an alternative to tabular] |
20-25 |
| Accessibility | |
| Creating accessible pdfs with LaTeX
Ulrike Fischer [Intermediate — future research, development, and issues with generating accessible pdfs] |
26-28 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 11, February 2018
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — move to git; expl3 and l3build updates] |
29-30 |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 12, January 2020
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — new features and fixes in expl3; better support for (u)pTeX; engine requirements; more] |
31-33 |
| LaTeX news, issue 31, February 2020
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — Experiences with the LaTeX-dev formats; Improvements to LaTeX's font selection mechanism (NFSS); Primitive requirements; and more] |
34-38 |
| Macros | |
| Case changing: From TeX primitives to the Unicode algorithm
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — LaTeX3 support for uppercasing, lowercasing, titlecasing, case-folding, all per Unicode] |
39-42 |
| LaTeX | |
| TeX, LaTeX and math
Enrico Gregorio [Intermediate Plus — aspects of mathematical typesetting: choice of symbols, abstraction, international standards, and more] |
43-53 |
| The fewerfloatpages package
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — avoiding relatively empty float pages] |
54-68 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Typesetting Bangla script with LuaLaTeX
Ulrike Fischer, Marcel Krüger [Intermediate Plus — using HarfBuzz and luaotfload to achieve better shaping and colorization] |
69-70 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — No time for copyright; No time to learn; Proofing the unproofable] |
71-72 |
| Methods | |
| An attempt at ragged-right typesetting
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — esthetics and implementations of ragged right, especially for German text] |
73-94 |
| Webnotes: Practical approaches
David Walden [Intermediate — putting an article's supplemental material on the web, with references] |
95-96 |
| Questions | |
| Reading 29,000 COVID-19 papers
Jonathan Fine [Intermediate — questions about automated analysis, JATS, and LaTeX] |
97 |
| Book Reviews | |
| About The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5
David Walden [Reports and notices — extended description of this fascicle and its place in Knuth's magnum opus] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
98-102 |
| Book review: History of Desktop Publishing, by Frank Romano
David Walden [Reports and notices — also discussed: Romano's previous book on phototypesetting history; and the publisher, Oak Knoll Press] |
102-105 |
| Abstracts | |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issues 27–28 (April and October 2019) | 106-107 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 2019/1–4 | 108 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2019 | 109-110 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2019–March 2020] |
110-112 |
| Cartoon | |
| Comic: Typographic map Hyphe-nation
John Atkinson |
112 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2019
Karl Berry |
113 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 114-115 |
| News & Announcements | |
| TeX Live 2020 news
Karl Berry [Reports and notices — brief summary of major changes in the TL'20 release] |
115 |
| Calendar | 116 |