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TUGboat 26:2, 2005

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TUG 2005 Proceedings (Wuhan, China)

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Complete issue 26:2 as one pdf (10mb)
Inside front cover c2
Contents ordered by difficulty c3
Title page 105
 
Conference Notes
TUG 2005 conference program, delegates, and sponsors      106
Highlights of TUG 2005
  Robin Laakso     [Introductory — conference report and comments from attendees]
108
TUG 2005 conference photos      110
 
Keynote
Typesetting Chinese: A personal perspective
  Wai Wong     [Introductory — survey of movable type printing in China, past and present]
111
 
Talks
XeTeX, the Multilingual Lion: TeX meets Unicode and smart font technologies
  Jonathan Kew     [Intermediate — extending TeX with Unicode and OpenType/AAT support, currently for MacOSX]
115
Hóng-Zì Hong-Zi: A Chinese Metafont
  Javier Rodríguez Laguna     [Intermediate — composing CJKV characters from reusable parts]
125
Qin notation generator
  Candy L.K. Yiu and Jim Binkley     [Intermediate — composing notation for the Qin musical instrument with MetaPost]
129
SwiExr: Spatial math exercises and worksheets, in Braille and print
  Nandan Bagchee and Eitan Gurari     [Intermediate — producing elementary math exercises (addition, division, etc.)]
135
Typesetting the Byzantine Cappelli
  Philip Taylor     [Intermediate — complex sorting of TeX text; maximum width analysis]
142
LuaTeX: Howling to the moon
  Hans Hagen     [Advanced — embedding the LUA scripting language in TeX]
152
Converting Metafont sources to outline fonts using MetaPost
  Karel Píška     [Advanced — towards optimal Type 1 outlines from Metafont fonts]
158
Moving from bytes to words to semantics
  S.K. Venkatesan     [Advanced — SenseTeX and Lojban: working with unambiguous semantic words]
165
  Nelson Beebe, Jin-Hwan Cho, Klaus Höppner, Feng Hong, Chris Rowley and Philip Taylor 169
 
News
Calendar      170
TeX Collection 2005 (TeX Live, proTeXt, MacTeX, CTAN)      174
EuroTeX 2006 announcement      175
TUG 2006 announcement      176
 
TUG Business
TUG membership form      172
Institutional members      173
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services      173
 
Index
Table of contents, ordered by difficulty      c3


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