The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 27:2, 2006
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| Complete issue 27:2 as one pdf (17mb) | |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 109 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — some TUG activities and information for 2006] |
110 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] TUG2006 Chuck Bigelow goes to RIT DEK in the news again Corrigendum: TUGboat 21:2 Out-of-copyright books on the Web |
111 |
| Fonts | |
| The installation and use of OpenType fonts in LaTeX
John Owens [Intermediate — also discusses basics of accessing new fonts from LaTeX] |
112 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — address lists; animated books and running.mp] |
119 |
| Brackets around anything
Timothy Hall [Intermediate Plus — placing braces of any size and any angle for labeling within a figure] |
121 |
| Omega | |
| Typesetting Malayalam using Omega
Alex A.J. [Intermediate Plus — installation and use of a new Omega package to support Malayalam] |
125 |
| Reports and notices | |
| TUG 2006 conference information | 127 |
| TUG 2006 | |
| TUG 2006 report
Taco Hoekwater [Introductory — informal introduction to and review of TUG 2006, with photos] |
131 |
| Multilingual document processing | |
| Arabic text justification
Mohamed Jamal Eddine Benatia, Mohamed Elyaakoubi and Azzeddine Lazrek [Intermediate — survey of historical methods of Arabic text justification, and a recommended algorithm] |
137 |
| The Arabi system — TeX writes in Arabic and Farsi
Youssef Jabri [Intermediate — an Arabic package for TeX needing no preprocessor, integrated with Babel] |
147 |
| DadTeX — A full Arabic interface
Mustapha Eddahibi, Azzeddine Lazrek and Khalid Sami [Intermediate Plus — TeX-based localization of documents to Arabic] |
154 |
| AlQalam for typesetting traditional Arabic texts
Hossam A.H. Fahmy [Intermediate Plus — enhancements to ArabTeX for Arabic, especially for typesetting the Qur'an] |
159 |
| Infrastructure for high-quality Arabic typesetting
Yannis Haralambous [Advanced — Supporting Arabic with new features in Ω2] |
167 |
| Babel speaks Hindi
Zdenek Wagner [Intermediate Plus — Hindi support in Babel via devnag, and Unicode vs. Velthuis transliteration] |
176 |
| Philology | |
| LaTeX as a tool for the typographic reproduction of ancient texts
Apostolos Syropoulos [Intermediate] |
181 |
| Electronic documents | |
| Generating TeX from mathematical content with respect to notational settings
Elena Smirnova and Stephen M. Watt [Advanced — respecting users' wishes for TeX output of mathematical notation] |
187 |
| dvi2svg: Using LaTeX layout on the Web
Adrian Frischauf and Paul Libbrecht [Intermediate Plus — math formulas on the Web via DVI to SVG conversion] |
197 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX2e, pict2e and complex numbers
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate — extending the graphics of the pict2e package via complex number manipulation] |
202 |
| Page design in LaTeX3
Morten Høgholm [Intermediate — using LaTeX3 features to ease and generalize page layout definitions] |
213 |
| Software & Tools | |
| MKII–MKIV
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — integration of LuaTeX with ConTeXt for graphics, I/O, networking, and more] |
219 |
| Unicode and multilingual typesetting with XeTeX
Jonathan Kew [Intermediate — extended abstract demonstrating Arabic typesetting with XeTeX] |
228 |
| The New Font Project: TeX Gyre
Hans Hagen, Jerzy B. Ludwichowski and Volker RW Schaa [Introductory — enhancing the free fonts from URW et al. to support more scripts, analogous to Latin Modern] |
230 |
| Fonts | |
| Outline font extensions for Arabic typesetting
Karel Píška [Intermediate Plus — discussion of FontForge and MetaType1 for Arabic fonts] |
234 |
| Arabic font building for LaTeX
F. Mounayerji and M.A. Naal [Intermediate — outline of procedure for building Arabic fonts from scratch] |
238 |
| Everything we want to know about Font Resources
Chris Rowley [Intermediate — brief discussion and open-ended questions on modern fonts and typesetting engines] |
241 |
| Bibliographies | |
| Names in BibTeX and MlBibTeX
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — parsing names in bibliographies in a robust and extensible way] |
243 |
| Abstracts | |
| Beeton, Bujdosó, Feuerstack, Hagen, Hoekwater, Ludwichowski, Wierda | 254 |
| MAPS: Contents of issues 33–34 (2005–06) | 256 |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 1 (2006) | 258 |
| Biuletyn GUST: Contents of issues 22–23 (2005–06) | 258 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 263 |
| EuroBachoTeX 2007 announcement | 264 |
| The 3rd Annual GuIT Meeting
Onofrio de Bari |
265 |
| UKTUG sponsors day of LaTeX
Charles Goldie |
266 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 266 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 268 |