The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 29:3, 2008
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| Complete issue 29:3 as one pdf (11mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 349 |
| TUG 2008 | |
| Conference information
participants, sponsors, thanks |
350 |
| Conference program | 351 |
| TUG 2008: TeX's 30th birthday
Peter Flynn [Introductory — general review of the TUG 2008 conference] A selection of photos. |
352 |
| LaTeX | |
| How to develop your own document class — our experience
Niall Mansfield [Intermediate — practical techniques for creating custom classes and styles] |
356 |
| Software & Tools | |
| TeXworks: Lowering the barrier to entry
Jonathan Kew [Introductory — report on a new TeX front end focused on ease-of-use and simplicity] |
362 |
| Direct and reverse synchronization with SyncTeX
Jérôme Laurens [Intermediate Plus — synchronizing between TeX input and output via modifying the base engine] |
365 |
| Xindy revisited: Multi-lingual index creation for the UTF-8 age
Joachim Schrod [Intermediate — introduction to and rationale for Xindy's main features] |
372 |
| A newbie's experiences with Lilypond, Lilypond-book, LaTeX and Perl
Joe McCool [Intermediate — producing nicely typeset traditional Irish music] |
376 |
| MetaPost developments: MPlib project report
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — translation of MetaPost functionality to a re-usable library] |
380 |
| The TeX–Lua mix
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — introduction to the combination of TeX and the embedded scripting language Lua] |
383 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| docx2tex: Word 2007 to TeX
Krisztián Pócza, Mihály Biczó and Zoltán Porkoláb [Intermediate Plus — free XML-based conversion software from Word 2007 (OOXML) to TeX] |
392 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Languages for bibliography styles
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — language comparison of bst, nbst, Perl, DSSSL, XSLT, etc.] |
401 |
| Dreamboat | |
| Vistas for TeX: Liberate the typography! (Part I)
Chris Rowley [Intermediate — extracting core TeX typesetting functionality for reuse] |
413 |
| Fonts | |
| Why didn't Metafont catch on?
Dave Crossland [Introductory — personality types, Metafont's interface, and font vs. typeface design] |
418 |
| Creating cuneiform fonts with MetaType1 and FontForge
Karel Píška [Intermediate — development process and results for a cuneiform font collection] |
421 |
| Do we need a `Cork' math font encoding?
Ulrik Vieth [Intermediate Plus — review of OpenType and Unicode math features, subsuming 8-bit encodings] |
426 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Meta-designing parameterized Arabic fonts for AlQalam
Ameer Sherif and Hossam Fahmy [Intermediate Plus — using Metafont to render Arabic with calligrapher-level quality] |
435 |
| Graphics | |
| Smart ways of drawing PSTricks figures
Manjusha Joshi [Introductory — using GUI programs with PSTricks for geometric figures] |
444 |
| Macros | |
| The MetaPost library and LuaTeX
Hans Hagen [Advanced — using the new standalone MetaPost library from LuaTeX and ConTeXt] |
446 |
| Philology | |
| Putting the Cork back in the bottle — Improving Unicode support in TeX
Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer [Intermediate Plus — recasting hyphenation patterns to support both UTF-8 and 8-bit encodings] |
454 |
| Writing Gregg Shorthand with Metafont and LaTeX
Stanislav Jan Šarman [Advanced — an online system converting English text to Gregg shorthand] |
458 |
| Macros | |
| The LuaTeX way: \framed
Hans Hagen [Advanced — generalizing paragraph manipulation in LuaTeX] |
462 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| Advanced features for publishing mathematics, in PDF and on the Web
Ross Moore [Intermediate Plus — using PDF and JavaScript to improve mathematics presentation and navigation] |
464 |
| Multidimensional text
John Plaice, Blanca Mancilla and Chris Rowley [Advanced — a theoretical underpinning of documents as generalized tuples] |
474 |
| Data mining: Role of TeX files
Manjusha Joshi [Introductory — extracting feature words from TeX files to improve searching] |
480 |
| Abstracts | |
| Abstracts (Fine, Hagen, Henkel, Hoekwater, Høgholm, Küster, Mancilla et al., Mittelbach, Peter, Rahilly et al., Rhatigan, Veytsman & Akhmadeeva, Veytsman)
Some presentations available as video. |
482 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 484 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 485 |
| TUG 2009 announcement | 486 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 487 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2009 election | 488 |