The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 28:3, 2007
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| Complete issue 28:3 as one pdf (10mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 273 |
| TUG 2007 conference information | 274 |
| TUG 2007 | |
| TUG 2007: A few words
Tim Arnold [Introductory — informal report from TUG 2007, with photos] |
276 |
| Keynote | |
| Between then and now — A meandering memoir
Peter Wilson [Introductory — review of typography and typesetting from Sumeria to the present] |
280 |
| Fonts | |
| The STIX Project — From Unicode to fonts
Barbara Beeton [Intermediate — supporting mathematics in Unicode, including creating the necessary fonts] |
299 |
| Fonts for every language: SIL's font projects and the Open Font License
Jonathan Kew [Introductory — overview of SIL's font-related initiatives] |
305 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Dual presentation with math from one source using GELLMU
William Hammond [Intermediate Plus — LaTeX-like markup that can produce high-quality printed and online output] |
306 |
| LuaTeX
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — an overview of embedding the Lua scripting language into TeX] |
312 |
| ConTeXt MkIV: Going UTF
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — development of Unicode support in LuaTeX] |
314 |
| MPlib: MetaPost as a reusable component
Taco Hoekwater and Hans Hagen [Intermediate — an overview of recasting MetaPost as a shared library] |
317 |
| Extending TeX and Metafont with floating-point arithmetic
Nelson Beebe [Advanced — floating-point history, problems, and futures] |
319 |
| Support for multiple TeX distributions in i-Installer and MacTeX
Richard Koch [Intermediate — a preference pane to switch between extant MacOSX TeX distributions] |
329 |
| Design decisions for a structured front end to LaTeX
Barry MacKichan [Intermediate — XML, XSLT, OpenType, and more as a basis for TeX development] |
335 |
| MathType 6.0's TeX input for MS Word and Wikipedia
Paul Topping [Intermediate — combining point-and-click with typed TeX input in MathType] |
340 |
| CrossTeX: A modern bibliography management tool
Robert Burgess and Emin Gün Sirer [Intermediate — a new bibliography tool written in Python, upward-compatible with BibTeX] |
342 |
| LaTeX | |
| Typesetting tables with LaTeX
Klaus Höppner [Introductory — introduction to making tables in LaTeX] |
350 |
| Programming with PerlTeX
Andrew Mertz and William Slough [Intermediate Plus — combining LaTeX and Perl, described in a graduated series of examples] |
354 |
| LaTeX conversion into normalized forms and speech
Eitan Gurari [Intermediate Plus — translating LaTeX into speech forms such as jsMath, SSML, ACSS] |
363 |
| Abstracts | |
| Abstracts (Allen, DeLand, Hagen, Hamid, Hefferon, Høgholm, Ierusalimschy, Kew, Rosenthol, Rowley, Stern) | 369 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Table macros
Aditya Mahajan [Introductory — introduction to making tables in ConTeXt] |
372 |
| TUG Business | |
| A roadmap for TeX development
TeX Development Fund committee |
375 |
| Random comments
TUGboat Editors Errata: Lars Hellström, “Writing ETX format font encoding specifications”, TUGboat 28:2, pp.186–197 DEK's periodic bug review “Off-site” complement to TUG2007 proceedings Other comments on the TUG2007 proceedings TeX Development Fund EuroBachoTeX proceedings to be the first 2008 TUGboat issue |
377 |
| Institutional members | 378 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 379 |
| TUG 2008 announcement | 380 |
| Sponsors | |
| Springer: More Math Into LaTeX; von Hoerner&Sulger; O'Reilly | 381 |
| MacKichan: Scientific WorkPlace, Scientific Word; Addison-Wesley: The LaTeX Graphics Companion | 382 |
| Cheryl Ponchin Training; Carleton Production Centre; Design Science: MathType6 | 383 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 384 |