The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 28:2, 2007
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| Complete issue 28:2 as one pdf (7.2mb) | |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 149 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — TeX development grants; http://mirror.ctan.org; interviews; TUG'07] |
151 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] A pledge of support Helvetica — 50th anniversary Another font anniversary — Souvenir, 93 years Another honorary doctorate for Don Knuth How to shrink a box as much as possible How to use a book Save the signs! Practical TeX 2006 recordings |
152 |
| A wayward wayfarer's way to TeX
Stephen Moye [Introductory — recollections of one humanities TeX user's adventures in TeXLand] |
153 |
| ConTeXt user meeting 2007: Epen, March 23–25
Mojca Miklavec [Introductory — report and photos from the first ConTeXt conference] |
159 |
| EuroBachoTeX 2007
Michael Guravage [Introductory — report and photos from the 2007 European TeX conference] |
164 |
| New TeX activities in Korea
Kihwang Lee [Introductory — notice of the founding of the Korean TeX Society] |
172 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — web vs. paper, punctuation oddities, Helvetica, TUG'08 in Cork] |
172 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Alphabetgeschichten by Hermann Zapf
Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater [review of Zapf's memoir, with several illustrations] |
174 |
| Fonts | |
| An exploration of the Latin Modern fonts
Will Robertson [Introductory — Latin Modern includes some novel font families as well as the designs from Computer Modern] |
177 |
| Creation of a PostScript Type 1 logo font with MetaType1
Klaus Höppner [Intermediate — tutorial for implementing a font with MetaType1] |
181 |
| Writing ETX format font encoding specifications
Lars Hellström [Intermediate Plus — writing font encoding specifications for LaTeX, and a suggested ratification procedure] |
186 |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Font styles
Aditya Mahajan [Introductory — introduction to the different ways of changing font styles in ConTeXt] |
198 |
| Installing ConTeXt expert fonts: Minion Pro
Idris Samawi Hamid [Advanced — preparing, installing, and configuring Minion Pro for ConTeXt] |
200 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Hacking DVI files: Birth of DVIasm
Jin-Hwan Cho [Intermediate Plus — creating DVI files from a simple text format; discussion of specials] |
210 |
| Graphics | |
| A complex drawing in descriptive geometry
Denis Roegel [Advanced — rendering a classic gear drawing in MetaPost] |
218 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Advanced — Paragraphs regular; paragraphs particular; paragraphs Russian] |
229 |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — selected new CTAN packages from January through June 2007] |
233 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX and the different bibliography styles
Federico Garcia [Intermediate — bracketed, author-year, and footnote citation styles and LaTeX packages] |
235 |
| Font selection in LaTeX: The most frequently asked questions
Walter Schmidt [Introductory — basics of font selection and the three top questions] |
241 |
| The memoir class
Peter Wilson [Introductory — introduction to the memoir class for customizable document creation] |
243 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Enjoying babel
Enrico Gregorio [Intermediate — introductions, usage, and extensions to babel] |
247 |
| Macros | |
| Writing numbers in words in TeX
Edward M. Reingold [Intermediate Plus — writing integers, including very large ones, in words] |
256 |
| Abstracts | |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issues 2–3 (2006–2007) | 260 |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of double issue 46–47 (April 2006) | 261 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2006/1–2007/1 | 262 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issues 2006-1–2007-2 | 263 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 268 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 269 |
| TUG 2007 announcement | 270 |
| TUG 2008 announcement | 271 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 272 |