The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 44:1, 2023
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 44:1 as one pdf (68mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| Editorial information | 2 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 2 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
(doi)
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — on Macsyma, Maxima, software longevity, and the TUG presidency] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news, accessibility, and a warning] |
4-8 |
| Typography | |
| A conversation with type designer Matthew Carter
(doi)
Frank Romano Video part 1, part 2, part 3. |
9-20 |
| Fonts | |
| Prehistory of digital fonts
(doi)
Jacques André [Intermediate — extensive examination of the foundational research in digital typography, profusely illustrated] |
21-57 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Fast startup with LaTeX; Footnotes as never before or since; Afterthought: List spacing] |
58-59 |
| Humanities | |
| An artist's journey on a TUGboat
(doi)
Tine Wilde [Intermediate — relationships between LaTeX, art (photography), and measurability] |
60-63 |
| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: No more table nightmares with tabularray!
(doi)
Carla Maggi [Intermediate — introduction to the unique features of the tabularray package for typesetting tables] |
64-70 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| Metadata in journal publishing
(doi)
Joppe Bos, Kevin McCurley [Intermediate — specifying extensive metadata to maximize reuse] |
71-76 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX anniversaries—A look in two directions
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate — LaTeX history and outlook; excerpted from The LaTeX Companion, third edition] |
77-86 |
| An introduction to expl3
(doi)
Marei Peischl [Intermediate Plus — step-by-step introduction to the modern LaTeX programming layer] |
87-93 |
| LuaCAS: Symbolic computation in LaTeX
(doi)
Timothy All, Evan Cochrane [Intermediate Plus — pure Lua computer algebra system, integrated into LaTeX] |
94-98 |
| Attributes in Markdown
(doi)
Vít Novotný [Intermediate Plus — using, coding, and styling attributes in Markdown in LaTeX] |
99-101 |
| Graphics | |
| An introduction to automata design with TikZ's automata library
(doi)
Igor Borja [Intermediate Plus — typesetting finite automata (state machines), including loops and conditionals] |
102-107 |
| Styling R ggplot2 graphics with LaTeX
(doi)
Travis Stenborg [Intermediate Plus — integrating R graphics with LaTeX documents in a harmonious style] |
108-109 |
| Philology | |
| Creating annotated Unicode-like font charts
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień [Intermediate — inspiration to add Unicode and PUA annotations to font charts] |
110-115 |
| Fonts | |
| Production notes
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — rendering modes in LuaLaTeX and unusual Unicode characters] |
115 |
| OpenType extensible brace debugging
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael Sundqvist [Intermediate Plus — braces over single characters, and extensible lists vs. precomposed characters] |
116 |
| Software & Tools | |
| ConTeXt in TeX Live 2023
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — using the new LuaMetaTeX engine and ConTeXt LMTX] |
117-120 |
| Macros | |
| Creating macros in OpTeX
(doi)
Petr Olšák [Advanced — many conveniences for macro programming, packaging, documenting] |
121-126 |
| Reflections on \globaldefs
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — history, behavior, applications, and questions about \globaldefs] |
127-133 |
| Methods | |
| Preserving the math class of variables
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Advanced — new \variablefam extension to allow preserving math classes] |
133 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Storing Unicode data in TeX engines
(doi)
Joseph Wright [Advanced — reading the great mass of Unicode data: two-stage tables and macro storage] |
134-137 |
| Reviews | |
| Book review: Do Not Erase, by Jessica Wynne
(doi)
Jim Hefferon [Reports and notices — review of this coffee table book of mathematicians' chalkboards and short essays] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
137-138 |
| Book review: Stop Stealing Sheep & Find out how type works, by Erik Spiekermann
(doi)
John Lamb [Reports and notices — review of this book on type and typography principles, now available at no charge] |
139-140 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2022–April 2023] |
141-142 |
| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 4/2022–1/2023 | 143 |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issues 47–49 (2022) | 143-144 |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2022/1–4 | 145 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeXnology Inc. | 145 |
| TeX consulting and production services | 146 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2023 election report
(doi)
TUG Elections committee |
147-150 |
| TUG financial statements for 2022
(doi)
Karl Berry |
151 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 152 |