The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 41:2, 2020
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| Complete issue 41:2 as one pdf (22mb)
Videos for all talks. |
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| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2020 | |
| TUG 2020 conference information
organizers, sponsors, program |
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| Random musings on TUG2020 online
Barbara Beeton |
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| Observations on the TeX Users Group's 41st Annual Conference—TUG 2020 in the COVID-19 era
David Walden |
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| TUG 2020: A report and future recommendations
Paulo Ney de Souza |
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| TeX conferences and General Meetings, this year and next
Jonathan Fine |
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| Interview with Javier Bezos
Paulo Ney de Souza [Reports and notices — live interview with Javier Bezos, maintainer of Babel and other packages] |
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| Interview with Philip Kime
Paulo Ney de Souza [Reports and notices — live interview with Philip Kime, Jungian psychoanalyst and maintainer of Biber and BibLaTeX] |
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| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Beyond Roman fonts: Extra dimensions in Malayalam fonts
KH Hussain, Rajeesh KV, Aravind Rajendran [Intermediate Plus — supporting the unusually large descender space needed for Malayalam, and the Rachana font design] |
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| The road to Noto
Steven Matteson [Intermediate — from the Rosetta Stone, through polyglot bibles and Droid, to Noto] |
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| Typographical explorations in two unicase alphabets
Jennifer Claudio [Introductory — consideration of written emotion in scripts that do not distinguish case] |
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| Graphics | |
| Your personal LaTeX bookshelf: Improving your background in a time of lockdown
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — randomized sizes and colors for book spines from BibTeX sources] |
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| Humanities | |
| Noticing history—a personal view
David Walden [Intermediate — how practitioners can help preserve and document primary sources and other computing history] |
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| TeX in church: A typographical adventure
Paulo Cereda [Intermediate — creating songsheets and booklets with LilyPond and LuaTeX] |
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| Education | |
| Empowerment and teaching LaTeX
Astrid Schmölzer, Sarah Lang [Introductory — four quick lessons for those interested in empowering new users, especially in the humanities] |
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| Didactical reduction versus references: How to better teach LaTeX
Sarah Lang [Intermediate — tech privilege, tacit knowledge, and working between beginner and mastery] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| LaTeX-on-HTTP: LaTeX as a commodity web service for application developers
Yoan Tournade [Advanced — JSON-based HTTP API for running LaTeX over the web] |
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| Using Overleaf for collaborative projects: First impressions and lessons learned
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — using Overleaf and git together for metacomments and version control] Reference [2], by Satish et al., was still under review when this TUGboat issue went to press. The article has since been published by the Association for Computational Linguistics, and is available. |
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| The Island of TeX: Developing abroad, your next destination
Island of TeX [Intermediate — overview of development projects at https://gitlab.com/islandoftex] |
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| The design concept for llmk—Light LaTeX Make
Takuto Asakura [Intermediate — simple, explicit workflow specification via TOML] |
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| Typesetting product catalogs and other database-driven documents with the speedata Publisher
Patrick Gundlach [Intermediate Plus — flexible XML-based publishing from LuaTeX, without TeX macros] |
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| LaTeX | |
| A first set of LaTeX packages
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — one recommended package per general area, covering most of what beginners need] |
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| Presenting our LaTeX workshop online
Susan DeMeritt, Cheryl Ponchin [Introductory — preparation of videos and syllabus for the TUG2020 workshop] |
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| learnlatex.org: Taking LaTeX training fully interactive
David Carlisle, Paulo Cereda, Joseph Wright [Intermediate — new tutorial site, with LaTeX running directly from the web pages] |
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| A review of learnlatex.org
Jennifer Claudio [Intermediate — examination of this new web site for guiding creation of first documents] |
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| Quo vadis LaTeX(3) Team—A look back and at the upcoming years
Frank Mittelbach, LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate Plus — the last 30 years, and upcoming hook management, tagged PDF, and more] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| The HINT Project: Status and open questions
Martin Ruckert, Gudrun Socher [Intermediate Plus — mobile and tablet reading of TeX output; soliciting information for future work] |
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| MiniLaTeX: A subset of LaTeX for the Web
James Carlson [Advanced — no-setup LaTeX rendered on the fly to HTML in any browser] |
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| Why the LaTeX community should care about SGML
William Hammond [Intermediate Plus — benefits of using SGML over XML for LaTeX processing; need for SGML library maintenance] |
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| LaTeX technologies at work—aesthetically beautiful PDFs on the fly from XML input: XML Page Composition (XPC) micro-service in the cloud
Rishi T, Aravind Rajendran, Rajagopal C.V., Radhakrishnan C.V. [Intermediate Plus — automated PDF creation and quality control from XML sources] |
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| Tagging with LaTeX— Part 1: Author considerations
Ross Moore [Advanced — real-world examples of LaTeX source to archive accessible PDF] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2020 abstracts
Jonathan Fine, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Paul Gessler, Patrick Ion, Marcel Krüger, John MacFarlane, Ross Moore, Eric Mc Sween, Norbert Preining, Thomas Price, Brandon Rhodes, samcarter, Michael Sharpe, Paulo Ney de Souza Videos for all talks. |
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| Die TeXnische Komödie 2–3/2020 | |
| Zpravodaj 2020/1–2 | |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–August 2020] |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2021 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| Institutional members | |
| Advertisements | |
| TUG 2020 sponsors | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |