The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 44:2, 2023
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| Complete issue 44:2 as one pdf (22mb)
Videos for all talks. |
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| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2023 | |
| TUG 2023 conference information and program | |
| A rally in Bonn: TUG 2023
(doi)
Eileen Wagner |
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| TUG 2023 Annual General Meeting notes
(doi)
Karl Berry, Robin Laakso |
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| Methods | |
| What every (La)TeX newbie should know
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — rundown of basic knowledge, common errors, extra spaces, debugging, and more] |
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| Publishing | |
| Architectural guides for Bonn—book production with ConTeXt
(doi)
Henning Hraban Ramm [Intermediate — design, layout, maps, print modes, images, covers, and many illustrations] |
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| ConTeXt | |
| Calculating covers with ConTeXt
(doi)
Henning Hraban Ramm [Intermediate — step-by-step practical examples of creating covers with ConTeXt] |
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| New dimensions: Edith and Tove
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Willi Egger, Hans Hagen, Edith Sundqvist, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate — two new metric dimensions and a device with which to determine them] |
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| Producing different forms of output from XML via ConTeXt
(doi)
Thomas A. Schmitz [Intermediate Plus — making slides, handouts, etc., from a single source, using ConTeXt modes and Lua] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 37, June 2023
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — new tagged PDF functionality; extending hooks; \BCPdata; \samepage, \label improvements; more] |
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| Beamer news: 2023
(doi)
samcarter, Joseph Wright [Introductory — a selection of user-visible improvements to Beamer in recent years] |
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| Updating the nostarch class
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Boris Veytsman [Intermediate Plus — handling unusual url, chapter opening, and caption requirements] |
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| The LaTeX template generator: How micro-templates reduce template maintenance effort
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Oliver Kopp [Intermediate Plus — separating writing from knowledge of packages, classes, tools] |
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| Fonts | |
| On bottom accents in OpenType math
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Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate Plus — existing behavior and proposals for handling bottom math accents] |
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| A Metafont for rustic capitals
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Victor Sannier [Intermediate — fully parameterized Metafont design using Vergilius Vaticanus as a reference] |
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| An updated survey of OpenType math fonts
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Ulrik Vieth [Intermediate — comprehensive summary of character coverage and more, with examples] |
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| Standardizing OpenType math fonts
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Mikael P. Sundqvist, Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — italic corrections, accents, rules, primes, parameters, and other OpenType and Unicode math difficulties] |
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| Graphics | |
| Behind the scenes of the Great TikZlings Christmas Extravaganza
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samcarter, Gert Fischer [Intermediate — using LaTeX with video tools to create the annual animation] |
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| Curvature combs and harmonized paths in MetaPost
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Linus Romer [Intermediate Plus — visualizing curvature and making curvature continuous] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Using Asymptote like MetaPost
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Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — workflow methods to help get started with Asymptote] |
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| Interactive and real-time typesetting for demonstration and experimentation: ETAP
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Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — GUI and programmatic access to algorithms and parameters for line breaking] |
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| Living in containers—on TeX Live (and ConTeXt) in a Docker setting
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Island of TeX [Intermediate Plus — container usage examples and infrastructure for current and historic releases] |
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| News from the HINT project: 2023
(doi)
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate — better glyph display, links and outlines, searching, HINT viewers] |
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| Bumpy road towards a good LaTeX visual editor at Overleaf
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Ben Davies [Introductory — overview of redesigning the code and visual editor duo] |
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| Overleaf and TeX Live deployment
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Tom Hejda [Intermediate — overview of the yearly deployment of the TeX Live release at Overleaf] |
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| Primo—A new sustainable solution for publishing
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Rishi T, Apu V, Hàn Thế Thành, Jan Vaněk [Intermediate — a cloud-based system with authoring, submission, and proofing tools] |
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| Accessibility | |
| Automated tagging of LaTeX documents—what is possible today, in 2023?
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Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — many, though not all, “Leslie Lamport Documents” can now be tagged automatically] |
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| Report on the LaTeX Tagged PDF workshop, TUG 2023
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David Carlisle, Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — tagged PDF overview and tools, adapting existing packages, handling tables] |
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| Enhancing accessibility of structured information via `Tagged PDF'
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Ross Moore [Advanced — using CSS with HTML derived from PDF to meet WCAG recommendations] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| An HTML/CSS schema for TeX primitives— generating high-quality responsive HTML from generic TeX
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Dennis Müller [Advanced — discussion of translating TeX primitives in the RusTeX engine] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Cheats (or not): When \prevdepth = -1000pt
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Hans Hagen [Advanced — explaining and generalizing the sentinel value for \nointerlineskip] |
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| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| A roadmap for universal syllabic segmentation
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Ondřej Sojka, Petr Sojka, Jakub Máca [Advanced — Judy array and Unicode support in patgen, to generate universal hyphenation patterns] |
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| Metafont/MetaPost and a complex Indic script: Malayalam
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CV Radhakrishnan, KV Rajeesh, KH Hussain [Intermediate Plus — implementing an aesthetic Unicode-compliant Malayalam font, with many illustrations] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2023 abstracts
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Patrick Gundlach, Island of TeX, Eberhard W. Lisse, Frank Mittelbach, Vít Starý Novotný, samcarter, Jan Šustek, Joseph Wright |
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| ArsTeXnica: issue 34 (May 2023) | |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 50 (2023) | |
| ConTeXt Group Journal: 15th meeting (2021) | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 2/2023 | |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2023/1–2 | |
| Reviews | |
| The gods smile at me: The LaTeX Companion, Third Edition, and ChatGPT
(doi)
George Grätzer [Reports and notices — summary of the book for general users, and ChatGPT's usefulness] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Book review: The LaTeX Companion, 3rd edition, by Frank Mittelbach with Ulrike Fischer
(doi)
John D Lamb [Reports and notices — review of this monumental new edition of the LaTeX documentation mainstay] |
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