The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 44:2, 2023
The Communications of |
|
Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.
If you're not already a member, we hope you'll consider joining TUG to support TUGboat and other TeX projects. More information on TUG member access.
| Complete issue 44:2 as one pdf (22mb)
Videos for all talks. |
|
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 153 |
| TUG 2023 | |
| TUG 2023 conference information and program | 154-156 |
| A rally in Bonn: TUG 2023
(doi)
Eileen Wagner |
157-162 |
| TUG 2023 Annual General Meeting notes
(doi)
Karl Berry, Robin Laakso |
162-163 |
| Methods | |
| What every (La)TeX newbie should know
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — rundown of basic knowledge, common errors, extra spaces, debugging, and more] |
164-169 |
| Publishing | |
| Architectural guides for Bonn—book production with ConTeXt
(doi)
Henning Hraban Ramm [Intermediate — design, layout, maps, print modes, images, covers, and many illustrations] |
170-175 |
| ConTeXt | |
| Calculating covers with ConTeXt
(doi)
Henning Hraban Ramm [Intermediate — step-by-step practical examples of creating covers with ConTeXt] |
176-179 |
| New dimensions: Edith and Tove
(doi)
Willi Egger, Hans Hagen, Edith Sundqvist, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate — two new metric dimensions and a device with which to determine them] |
180-185 |
| 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] |
186-191 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 37, June 2023
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — new tagged PDF functionality; extending hooks; \BCPdata; \samepage, \label improvements; more] |
192-196 |
| Beamer news: 2023
(doi)
samcarter, Joseph Wright [Introductory — a selection of user-visible improvements to Beamer in recent years] |
197-199 |
| Updating the nostarch class
(doi)
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate Plus — handling unusual url, chapter opening, and caption requirements] |
200-202 |
| The LaTeX template generator: How micro-templates reduce template maintenance effort
(doi)
Oliver Kopp [Intermediate Plus — separating writing from knowledge of packages, classes, tools] |
203-207 |
| Fonts | |
| On bottom accents in OpenType math
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate Plus — existing behavior and proposals for handling bottom math accents] |
207-208 |
| A Metafont for rustic capitals
(doi)
Victor Sannier [Intermediate — fully parameterized Metafont design using Vergilius Vaticanus as a reference] |
209-212 |
| An updated survey of OpenType math fonts
(doi)
Ulrik Vieth [Intermediate — comprehensive summary of character coverage and more, with examples] |
213-225 |
| Standardizing OpenType math fonts
(doi)
Mikael P. Sundqvist, Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — italic corrections, accents, rules, primes, parameters, and other OpenType and Unicode math difficulties] |
226-232 |
| Graphics | |
| Behind the scenes of the Great TikZlings Christmas Extravaganza
(doi)
samcarter, Gert Fischer [Intermediate — using LaTeX with video tools to create the annual animation] |
233-235 |
| Curvature combs and harmonized paths in MetaPost
(doi)
Linus Romer [Intermediate Plus — visualizing curvature and making curvature continuous] |
236-239 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Using Asymptote like MetaPost
(doi)
Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — workflow methods to help get started with Asymptote] |
240-241 |
| Interactive and real-time typesetting for demonstration and experimentation: ETAP
(doi)
Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — GUI and programmatic access to algorithms and parameters for line breaking] |
242-248 |
| Living in containers—on TeX Live (and ConTeXt) in a Docker setting
(doi)
Island of TeX [Intermediate Plus — container usage examples and infrastructure for current and historic releases] |
249-252 |
| News from the HINT project: 2023
(doi)
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate — better glyph display, links and outlines, searching, HINT viewers] |
252-254 |
| Bumpy road towards a good LaTeX visual editor at Overleaf
(doi)
Ben Davies [Introductory — overview of redesigning the code and visual editor duo] |
255 |
| Overleaf and TeX Live deployment
(doi)
Tom Hejda [Intermediate — overview of the yearly deployment of the TeX Live release at Overleaf] |
256 |
| Primo—A new sustainable solution for publishing
(doi)
Rishi T, Apu V, Hàn Thế Thành, Jan Vaněk [Intermediate — a cloud-based system with authoring, submission, and proofing tools] |
257-261 |
| Accessibility | |
| Automated tagging of LaTeX documents—what is possible today, in 2023?
(doi)
Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — many, though not all, “Leslie Lamport Documents” can now be tagged automatically] |
262-266 |
| Report on the LaTeX Tagged PDF workshop, TUG 2023
(doi)
David Carlisle, Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — tagged PDF overview and tools, adapting existing packages, handling tables] |
267-269 |
| Enhancing accessibility of structured information via `Tagged PDF'
(doi)
Ross Moore [Advanced — using CSS with HTML derived from PDF to meet WCAG recommendations] |
270-274 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| An HTML/CSS schema for TeX primitives— generating high-quality responsive HTML from generic TeX
(doi)
Dennis Müller [Advanced — discussion of translating TeX primitives in the RusTeX engine] |
275-286 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Cheats (or not): When \prevdepth = -1000pt
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Advanced — explaining and generalizing the sentinel value for \nointerlineskip] |
287-288 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| A roadmap for universal syllabic segmentation
(doi)
Ondřej Sojka, Petr Sojka, Jakub Máca [Advanced — Judy array and Unicode support in patgen, to generate universal hyphenation patterns] |
289-296 |
| Metafont/MetaPost and a complex Indic script: Malayalam
(doi)
CV Radhakrishnan, KV Rajeesh, KH Hussain [Intermediate Plus — implementing an aesthetic Unicode-compliant Malayalam font, with many illustrations] |
297-314 |
| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2023 abstracts
(doi)
Patrick Gundlach, Island of TeX, Eberhard W. Lisse, Frank Mittelbach, Vít Starý Novotný, samcarter, Jan Šustek, Joseph Wright |
315-316 |
| ArsTeXnica: issue 34 (May 2023) | 317 |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 50 (2023) | 317 |
| ConTeXt Group Journal: 15th meeting (2021) | 318 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 2/2023 | 318 |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2023/1–2 | 319 |
| 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. |
319-321 |
| 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] |
322-324 |
| Advertisements | |
| TUG 2023 advertisements: STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd; Overleaf | 325 |
| TeX consulting and production services | 326-327 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 327 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 328 |