The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 28:1, 2007
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| Complete issue 28:1 as one pdf (7.4mb) | |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — some TUG activities and information for 2006] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Erratum: TUGboat 27:1 (EuroTeX proceedings); A new Korean TeX Society; LaTeX goes to the movies; Some TUGboat staff changes |
3 |
| Warnings | |
| TeX's infinite glue is projective
Donald Knuth [Advanced — note about negative infinite glue] |
4 |
| Software & Tools | |
| TeXML: Resurrecting TeX in the XML world
Oleg Parashchenko [Intermediate Plus — transforming XML input syntax through TeX to PDF] |
5 |
| Oriental TeX: A new direction in scholarly complex-script typesetting
Barbara Beeton and Idris Hamid |
11 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — stringing along; loops] |
12 |
| The treasure chest
Mark LaPlante [Intermediate — selected new CTAN packages in 2006] |
15 |
| LaTeX | |
| paperTeX: Creating newspapers using LaTeX2e
Ignacio Llopis Tortosa and María José Castro Bleda [Intermediate — automatically generating a PDF newspaper from external sources] |
20 |
| LaTeX news, issue 17
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — latest LaTeX release notes: font encodings, graphics drivers, more] |
24 |
| Practical TeX 2006 | |
| Conference information | 26 |
| Keynote | |
| How to create a TeX Journal: A personal journey
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — a look back at TUGboat experiences since its founding] |
29 |
| Publishing | |
| A lifetime as an amateur compositor
David Walden [Introductory — productivity with LaTeX and typesetting experiences along the way] |
49 |
| TeX and medicine
Elizabeth Dearborn [Introductory — experiences in self-publishing a medical transcription dictionary with TeX] |
61 |
| Teaching & Training | |
| LaTeX at a liberal arts college
Jon Breitenbucher [Introductory — experiences introducing LaTeX in an undergraduate liberal arts setting] |
65 |
| Design of presentations: Notes on principles and LaTeX implementation
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — writing effective presentations and implementing them in LaTeX] |
70 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Automatic report generation with Web, TeX and SQL
Boris Veytsman and Maria Shmilevich [Intermediate — creating high-quality project reports while minimizing overhead] |
77 |
| Writing and checking complete proofs in TeX
Bob Neveln and Bob Alps [Advanced — verifying formal mathematical proofs with TeX and Python] |
80 |
| Graphics | |
| A beginner's guide to MetaPost for creating high-quality graphics
Troy Henderson [Introductory — introduction to MetaPost] |
84 |
| Graphics with PGF and TikZ
Andrew Mertz and William Slough [Intermediate — graduated examples of graphics within LaTeX using a MetaPost-like syntax] |
91 |
| Drawing medical pedigree trees with TeX and PSTricks
Boris Veytsman and Leila Akhmadeeva [Intermediate Plus — typesetting medical pedigrees graphically] |
100 |
| Tutorials | |
| Rolling your own Document Class: Using LaTeX to keep away from the Dark Side
Peter Flynn [Intermediate Plus] |
110 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX resources
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — a sampling of useful documentation, web sites, programs, and packages] |
124 |
| LaTeX for academics and researchers who (think they) don't need it
Peter Flom [Introductory — advocating LaTeX for scientists and dispelling myths] |
126 |
| Hypertext capabilities with pdfLaTeX
Federico Garcia [Intermediate — introduction to the hyperref package, links, bookmarks, and more] |
129 |
| Removing vertical stretch — mimicking traditional typesetting with TeX
Kaveh Bazargan and CV Radhakrishnan [Intermediate — a method for typesetting on a grid, including double columns and math] |
133 |
| Abstracts | |
| Adams, Garcia, Höppner, Hummel, Moye, Peter, Wetmore | 137 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 138 |
| TUG 2007 announcement | 139 |
| EuroBachoTeX 2007 announcement | 140 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2007 election report
Steve Peter |
141 |
| Financial statements for 2006
David Walden |
145 |
| Institutional members | 146 |
| TUG membership form | 147 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 148 |