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TUGboat 32:2, 2011

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Complete issue 32:2 as one pdf (6.3mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Editorial information 
Title page   129 
 
General Delivery
From the President 
  Karl Berry      [Introductory — software; conferences; interviews]
 131 
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    Boris=books;     EuroBachoTeX 2011;     150 years at the US Government Printing Office;     The raster tragedy
 131 
 
Software & Tools
TeX Collection 2011 DVD 
  TeX Collection editors      [Introductory — very high-level overview of changes in the 2011 software releases]
 132 
TeXworks—As you like it 
  Stefan Löffler      [Intermediate — new scripting and other features in TeXworks 0.4]
 133 
MetaPost 1.750: Numerical engines 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Advanced — supporting back-end numerical libraries, MPFR and decNumber]
 136 
Reading and executing source code 
  Herbert Voß      [Intermediate Plus — typesetting and executing LaTeX and other source]
 139 
 
Education
Teaching LaTeX to the students of mathematics—the experience from The Jan Kochanowski University 
  Krzysztof Pszczoła      [Introductory — experiences with and approaches to teaching LaTeX]
 145 
 
Graphics
Drawing tables: Graphic fun with LuaTeX 
  Paul Isambert      [Intermediate Plus — using Lua for drawing, with PDF output]
 146 
 
Electronic Documents
E-books: Old wine in new bottles 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — reflections on using and producing ebooks, especially with ConTeXt]
 152 
iTeX—Document formatting in an ereader world 
  William Cheswick      [Intermediate — producing bundles for practical iPad reading]
 158 
 
Fonts
Math alphabets and the mathalfa package 
  Michael Sharpe      [Intermediate — survey of and package for available math script, double-struck, and fraktur fonts]
 164 
Another incarnation of Lucida: Towards Lucida OpenType 
  Ulrik Vieth, Mojca Miklavec      [Intermediate — review of font technologies and a new implementation of Lucida]
 169 
MFLua 
  Luigi Scarso      [Advanced — integrating Lua into Metafont for post-processing glyphs]
 177 
 
Macros
Macro interfaces and the getoptk package 
  Michael Le Barbier Grünewald      [Intermediate Plus — survey of macro interfaces; implementing a new keyword interface for plain TeX]
 185 
 
LaTeX
The cals package: Multipage tables with decorations 
  Oleg Parashchenko      [Intermediate Plus — an advanced table package]
 193 
 
Publishing
Glisterings: Ornaments with the Web-O-Mints font 
  Peter Wilson 
 202 
 
LaTeX
Merciadri packages: An overview 
  Luca Merciadri      [Intermediate — bigints; dashundergaps; plantslabels; matrices with borders]
 206 
 
ConTeXt
ConTeXt basics for users: Paper setup 
  Aditya Mahajan      [Intermediate — predefined and custom page and print sizes in ConTeXt]
 211 
 
Bibliographies
Experiences with notes, references, and bibliographies 
  David Walden      [Intermediate — a variety of practical approaches to bibliographies, with many examples]
 213 
 
Typography
Sixty years of book design at St. Gallen, Switzerland 
  Paul Shaw      [Intermediate — discussion of this design exhibition, with many examples]
         Reprinted from Print magazine's online newsletter, Imprint.
 217 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   224 
 
Book Reviews
Book review: A Specimen Portfolio of Wood Type in the Cary Collection 
  William Adams      [Introductory — review of collection of wood type specimens (RIT Press)]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 225 
Book review: The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century, by Jerry Kelly 
  Boris Veytsman      [Introductory — review of this typography book (RIT Press)]
 226 
Book review: LaTeX Beginner's Guide, by Stefan Kottwitz 
  Boris Veytsman      [Introductory — review of this introductory book (Packt Publishers)]
 228 
An appreciation: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A, by Donald E. Knuth 
  David Walden      [Introductory — discussion of Knuth's magnum opus (Addison-Wesley)]
 230 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–July 2011]
 233 
 
Abstracts
Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 54–55 (2010)   235 
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 2/2011   235 
Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 20(4) (2010)   236 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   237 
 
Letters
Status of the American core CTAN node 
  Jim Hefferon      [Introductory — web view of CTAN enhanced with extra characterizations]
 238 
 
News
Calendar   239 
TUG 2011 announcement   240 

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