The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 29:2, 2008
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| Complete issue 29:2 as one pdf (5.3mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 229 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — TUG at the JMM; Google Summer of Code; interviews; The PracTeX Journal; conferences] |
231 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] TeX 3.1415926 is here, and other Knuthian references Phyllis Winkler, RIP New domain name for CervanTeX Interactive typography courses by Jonathan Hoefler A helpful CTAN feature: “get” Recreating the Gutenberg press Copy-editing the wayward apostrophe A font game for your amusement |
232 |
| The TeX tuneup of 2008
Donald Knuth [Advanced — the 2008 updates to TeX, Metafont, Computer Modern, et al.] |
233 |
| Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton |
239 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Metafont fonts; Type 1 (PostScript) fonts; new forum, old forum; 2008 TUG meeting in Cork] |
240 |
| The Greek Font Society
Vassilios Tsagkalos [Introductory — background, goals, and accomplishments of the GFS; interview with Georgios Matthiopoulos, type designer] |
242 |
| Publishing | |
| Designing and producing a reference book with LaTeX: The Engineer's Quick Reference Handbook
Claudio Beccari and Andrea Guadagni [Intermediate — issues in designing a reference book for screen and print publication] |
246 |
| Typography | |
| Suggestions on how not to mishandle mathematical formulæ
Massimo Guiggiani and Lapo Mori [Intermediate — best practices for composing math, especially for non-mathematicians] |
255 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| Wikipublisher: A Web-based system to make online and print versions of the same content
John Rankin [Intermediate — a free software system for creating high-quality printed documents from PmWiki markup] |
264 |
| Character encoding
Victor Eijkhout [Intermediate — introduction to character encodings, emphasizing Unicode and UTF-8] |
270 |
| Fonts | |
| lxfonts: LaTeX slide fonts revived
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate — a greatly revised and expanded sans serif font collection for presentations] |
278 |
| Reshaping Euler: A collaboration with Hermann Zapf
Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater and Volker RW Schaa [Introductory — illustrated report of updating the Euler math font] |
283 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Asymptote: A vector graphics language
John Bowman and Andy Hammerlindl [Intermediate — discussion of this powerful graphics program, with extensive comparisons to MetaPost] |
288 |
| The Luafication of TeX and ConTeXt
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — progress report on the LuaTeX implementation and its use in ConTeXt] |
295 |
| Porting TeX Live to OpenBSD
Edward Barrett [Introductory — history, process, and fruition of porting TeX Live to a system distribution] |
303 |
| LaTeX | |
| Good things come in little packages: An introduction to writing .ins and .dtx files
Scott Pakin [Intermediate Plus — a tutorial on creating LaTeX package files] |
305 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Indentation
Aditya Mahajan [Introductory — overview of controlling paragraph indentation in ConTeXt] |
315 |
| Multilingual MetaPost | |
| Kanji-Sudokus: Integrating Chinese and graphics
Denis Roegel [Intermediate — using the CJK package and MetaPost to produce Sudoku grids] |
317 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Interesting loops and iterations — second helping
Paweł Jackowski [Advanced — review of loop definitions from the original to fully expandable ones via ε-TeX] |
320 |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus] More on paragraphs regular; LaTeX's defining triumvirate; TeX's dictator |
324 |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — selected new CTAN packages from July 2007 through May 2008] |
328 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous
Ulrik Vieth [review of this multi-faceted book which is now available in English] |
331 |
| Reviews | |
| Software review: TeXacroCAD for Windows
Bernd Schroeder [Introductory — review of this GUI program for the LaTeX picture environment] |
333 |
| Warnings | |
| \looseness on the loose
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — altered line breaks even when \looseness has no effect of its own] |
334 |
| Abstracts | |
| MAPS: Contents of issues 35 (2007) | 335 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2007/2–2008/1 | 336 |
| Eutypon: Contents of issues 16–20 (2007–2008) | 337 |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 4 (2007) | 338 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issues 2007-3–2008-1 | 339 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2007
David Walden |
343 |
| Institutional members | 344 |
| TUG membership form | 345 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 346 |
| TUG 2008 announcement | 347 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 348 |