The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 30:1, 2009
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| Complete issue 30:1 as one pdf (4.9mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — In memoriam; TeX Collection 2009; book of TUG interviews; server hardware; conferences; joint memberships] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Helmut Kopka, 1932–2009 Eitan Gurari, 1947–2009 A short history of type |
4 |
| Helmut Kopka, 1932–2009
Patrick Daly [Introductory — the first author of A Guide to LaTeX, in memoriam] |
4 |
| Software & Tools | |
| DVI specials for PDF generation
Jin-Hwan Cho [Intermediate Plus — concise description of DVI specials used in DVIPDFMx] |
6 |
| Ancient TeX: Using XeTeX to support classical and medieval studies
David Perry [Introductory — Unicode, OpenType, and XeTeX, with a focus on usage in classics] |
12 |
| TeXonWeb
Jan Přichystal [Introductory — a customizable, secure web application for running (La)TeX] |
18 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — The electronic book; Breaking the mold; RIOTING TYPOGRAPHERS; Periodic table of typefaces] |
20 |
| Fonts | |
| OpenType Math Illuminated
Ulrik Vieth [Advanced — detailed comparison of OpenType and TeX math font parameters] |
22 |
| A closer look at TrueType fonts and pdfTeX
Hàn Thế Thành [Intermediate — using TrueType directly with pdfTeX, with care for glyph names and encodings] |
32 |
| The Open Font Library
David Crossland [Introductory — announcement of a web site collecting redistributable and modifiable fonts] |
35 |
| Bibliographies | |
| Managing bibliographies with LaTeX
Lapo Mori [Introductory — survey of bibliography support, including natbib and biblatex] |
36 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Managing languages within MlBibTeX
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — specifying natural languages in bibliographies to ConTeXt and LaTeX] |
49 |
| Graphics | |
| Asymptote: Lifting TeX to three dimensions
John Bowman and Orest Shardt [Intermediate Plus — generation of interactive three-dimensional output, embeddable in PDF] |
58 |
| Supporting layout routines in MetaPost
Wentao Zheng [Intermediate Plus — approaches to (semi-)automatically laying out objects in MetaPost] |
64 |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — Reprise; pdfLaTeX and MetaPost; Spidrons] Reprise; pdfLaTeX and MetaPost; Spidrons |
69 |
| MetaPost macros for drawing Chinese and Japanese abaci
Denis Roegel [Intermediate Plus — drawing abaci and illustrating their operation] |
74 |
| Spheres, great circles and parallels
Denis Roegel [Advanced — drawing correct spheres and their components with MetaPost] |
80 |
| An introduction to nomography: Garrigues' nomogram for the computation of Easter
Denis Roegel [Advanced — background of Easter calculations and reproduction in MetaPost] |
88 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX3 news, issues 1–2
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — LaTeX3 news installments: what exists, what's coming] |
105 |
| LaTeX3 programming: External perspectives
Joseph Wright [Intermediate — summary of key ideas in the LaTeX3 programming interface] |
107 |
| Macros | |
| Implementing key–value input: An introduction
Joseph Wright and Christian Feuersänger [Intermediate — tutorial on using keyval, kvoptions, xkeyval, pgfkeys, both LaTeX and plain TeX] |
110 |
| Current typesetting position in pdfTeX
Vít Zýka [Intermediate — description and example usage of pdfTeX extensions for obtaining the current position on the page] |
123 |
| Letters | |
| In response to “mathematical formulæ”
Kaihsu Tai |
125 |
| In response to Kaihsu Tai
Massimo Guiggiani and Lapo Mori |
126 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages from June 2008 through June 2009] |
127 |
| Abstracts | |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issues 5–7 (2008–2009) | 131 |
| Baskerville: Contents of issue 10.1 (2009) | 133 |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 21 (October 2008) | 133 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2008/2–2009/2 | 134 |
| MAPS: Contents of issues 36–37 (2008) | 136 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issues 2008-2–2008-3 | 138 |
| TeXemplares: Contents of issue 8 (2006) | 139 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 16(2)–18(4) (2006–2008) | 140 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 144 |
| TUG 2009 election report
Barbara Beeton |
145 |
| TeX Development Fund 2009 report
TeX Development Fund committee |
148 |
| TUG financial statements for 2008
David Walden |
149 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 151 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 152 |