The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 2:3, November 1981
The Communications of
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| Complete issue 2:3 as one pdf (5.3mb) | |
| Title page | 1 |
| Addresses of officers, authors and others | 2 |
| Official announcements | 3 |
| General Delivery | 3–7 |
| Message from the Chairman
Michael Spivak |
3–4 |
| TUG Treasurer's report
Samuel B. Whidden |
4 |
| The current state of things
Donald Knuth |
5–6 |
| TUG Winter 1982 meeting, January 11–12, 1982, Cincinnati, Ohio
Tom Pierce |
7 |
| Software | |
| Pascal-coded TeX errata
Arthur Samuel |
7–8 |
| The format of PXL files
David Fuchs |
8–12 |
| Output Devices | |
| Sample of output from an IDS-640
John Sauter |
13 |
| Output device index
Rilla Thedford |
14 |
| A Varian output driver in VAX/VMS Fortran
Jim Mooney |
14–15 |
| Diabolic TeX
Timothy Murphy |
15–21 |
| Site Reports | 21–34 |
| News from the home front (Stanford)
David Fuchs |
21–22 |
| TeX under the North Star
Michael Frisch |
22–23 |
| A TUGboat tour: Excerpts from the TeXnician's log
Barbara Beeton |
23–25 |
| TeX for the HP3000
Lance Carnes |
25–26 |
| TeX for the IBM 370
Susan Plass |
26–27 |
| TeX in Israel
Jeffrey S. Rosenschein |
27–28 |
| TeX at the University of Michigan, summary of progress
David Rodgers |
28–29 |
| VAX on UNIX
Robert Morris |
29 |
| TeX at CalTech
Calvin Jackson |
29–32 |
| The status of VAX/TeX at Brown
Janet Incerpi |
32 |
| VAX/VMS site report
Monte C. Nichols |
32 |
| Enhancements of VAX/VMS TeX at Calma
John Blair |
32–34 |
| “Poor man's” TeX
John Sauter |
34–35 |
| Fonts | |
| Font update
Ronald Whitney |
35 |
| Warnings & Limitations | |
| Don't just \let TeX hang, \raise or \lower it
Barbara Beeton |
35 |
| Macros | |
| Editor's introduction
Lynne Price |
36 |
| TUGboat macro index
Lynne Price |
36–37 |
| Bubbles: A TeXtension in search of a TeXpert
Timothy Murphy |
37–38 |
| Charting your grammar with TeX
Michael F. Plass |
39–56 |
| Chemical notation using TeX
Monte Nichols, Barbara Beeton |
57–58 |
| Problems | |
| Lynne Price | 58–65 |
| Balancing columns of text and translation (from Johnny Stovall) | 58–59 |
| Input-dependent macro redefinition (from Mike Spivak) | 59–60 |
| A macro that prints its name (from Anthony Siegman) | 60–61 |
| Testing the equivalence of strings | 61 |
| Problems from the TeXarcana class: Answers, and another problem | 61–65 |
| Letters et alia | |
| J. M. Cole | 66 |
| Formatting a book with TeX: Experiences and observations
Michael Sannella |
66–74 |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Instructions for submitting TUGboat articles on magnetic tape | |
| Membership application and order form | |
| Supplements | |
| TeX and Metafont Errata | |
| TUG membership list |