The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 46:3, 2025
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| Complete issue 46:3 as one pdf (19mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
(doi)
Arthur Rosendahl [Introductory — on TeX's compatibility, and lack thereof—for the better] |
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| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news] Physical TUGboat issue mailing; Why TeX was created; correcting a misunderstanding; GUTenberg online adventures; Some Web postings worth a look; What you intend may not be what you get; The history of letterforms: Lectures by James Mosley |
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| James Mosley, type historian (1935–2025)
(doi)
Charles Bigelow |
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| The first meeting of the Portuguese TeX Users Group
(doi)
João M. Lourenço, Joaquim Baptista [Reports and notices — summary of the first meeting of TUG-PT (https://www.tug.pt)] |
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| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn [Introductory — When is a float not a float?; Accessibility; Afterthought: Finding that font] |
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| Resources | |
| Words of Type, for a multilingual and multicultural typography: wordsoftype.com
(doi)
Lisa Huang [Intermediate — project to translate and explain the vocabulary of typography] |
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| Surveys | |
| Overview of TeX engines and formats
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid), Max Chernoff, Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — comparison of current engines (binary programs) and formats (TeX macro collections)] |
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| Publishing | |
| A LaTeX publishing workflow
(doi)
Joppe W. Bos (orcid), Kevin S. McCurley (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — a new open-source system for copyediting and document production of LaTeX-based journals] |
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| Fonts | |
| The Arsenal Math OpenType fonts
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KV Rajeesh [Intermediate Plus — customizable font tables for OpenType/TrueType Unicode fonts] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 42, November 2025
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — tagged PDF news; new or improved commands; changes in tools] |
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| Dissertation typesetting considerations
(doi)
Tony Zorman (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — writing an easily readable, and pretty, thesis or other technical work: a personal journey] |
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| Graphics | |
| The lua-tikz3dtools package for 3D illustrations in LaTeX
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Jasper Nice [Advanced — new algorithm for occlusion handling of tessellated 3D parametric objects] |
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| Getting noisy
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Keith McKay [Advanced — implementing and refining Perlin noise in ConTeXt, MetaPost, Lua, and C] |
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| Beyond MetaPost: TeX, MetaPost, and Lua
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Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Advanced — interaction between the three programs, and efficiently creating complex graphics] |
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| Styling Maple graphics with TikZ and LaTeX
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Travis Stenborg (orcid) [Intermediate — removing Maple's default styling and re-adding custom styling] |
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| Education | |
| A look at complaints about The TeXbook
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Udo Wermuth [Intermediate — analyzing The TeXbook with respect to criticisms over the years] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Pages
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Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Advanced — fundamental extensions to page breaking in LuaMetaTeX] |
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| ConTeXt | |
| Flagging
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Advanced — flag presentations, QR tags for errors, run status via colored lights] |
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| Methods | |
| On differences in paragraph length between TeX's first and second pass
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Udo Wermuth [Advanced — unexpected results between TeX's paragraph-breaking passes] |
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| Philology | |
| A technical contribution to the description of the 16th century fonts of Polish printers
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Janusz S. Bień (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — splitting page images from Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi into glyphs] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2025] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 3/2025 | |
| TUG Business | |
| TeX Development Fund 2021–2025 report
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TeX Development Fund committee |
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| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| Sponsor: TeXFolio | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |