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