The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 32:1, 2011
The Communications of
| |
If you're not already a member, we hope you'll consider joining TUG to support TUGboat and other TeX projects. More information on TUG member access.
| Complete issue 32:1 as one pdf (7.6mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| Editorial information | 2 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — conferences; interviews; software] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Opus 100 BBVA award for Don Knuth Short takes Mimi |
4 |
| Mimi Burbank
Jackie Damrau [Introductory — a remembrance] |
6 |
| Missing Mimi
Christina Thiele [Introductory — In memoriam: Mimi Burbank] |
7 |
| 16 years of ConTeXt
Hans Hagen [Advanced — ConTeXt's evolution and milestones in its history] |
9 |
| TUGboat's 100 issues — Basic statistics and random gleanings
David Walden and Karl Berry [Introductory — sampled survey of issues throughout TUGboat's run] |
17 |
| TUGboat online
Karl Berry and David Walden [Introductory — retrospective history and implementation of making TUGboat available online] |
23 |
| TeX consulting for fun and profit
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — technical, business, and personal experiences as a TeX consultant] |
27 |
| Resources | |
| Which way to the forum?
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — review of the major online help forums] |
30 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| LaTeX at Distributed Proofreaders and the electronic preservation of mathematical literature at Project Gutenberg
Andrew Hwang [Introductory — processing flow and coding of mathematical books at Project Gutenberg] |
32 |
| Fonts | |
| Introducing the PT Sans and PT Serif typefaces
Pavel Farář [Introductory — high-quality sans and serif typefaces supporting Latin and Cyrillic] |
39 |
| Handling math: A retrospective
Hans Hagen [Advanced — the influence of plain TeX math in ConTeXt, Unicode, and beyond] |
43 |
| Typography | |
| The rules for long s
Andrew West [Intermediate — rules for using long s in English, French, Italian, and Spanish] |
47 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Installing TeX Live 2010 on Ubuntu
Enrico Gregorio [Intermediate — why and how to install the original TeX Live on GNU/Linux distributions] |
56 |
| tlcontrib.metatex.org: A complement to TeX Live
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — a distribution and associated web site hosting supplementary packages for TeX Live] |
62 |
| LuaTeX: What it takes to make a paragraph
Paul Isambert [Advanced — influencing ligatures, kerning, line breaking, etc., through callbacks] Example code for the idea in the last section can be found, along with other useful information, on the LuaTeX wiki. |
68 |
| Luna — my side of the moon
Paweł Jackowski [Advanced — clean handling of graphics made possible by Lua(TeX)] |
77 |
| LaTeX | |
| Reflections on the history of the LaTeX Project Public License (LPPL) — A software license for LaTeX and more
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate — creation and evolution of the LaTeX world's predominant license] |
83 |
| siunitx: A comprehensive (SI) units package
Joseph Wright [Intermediate — overview of a powerful package for printing units, with or without numbers] |
95 |
| Publishing | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate — framing; new frames] |
99 |
| LaTeX | |
| Some misunderstood or unknown LaTeX2e tricks III
Luca Merciadri [Intermediate — monochrome; rightmost braces; watermarks; plagiarism] |
104 |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 5
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — LPPL now OSI-approved; reflections on 2010; current progress; plans for 2011] |
108 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Typesetting tables with LaTeX
Boris Veytsman [review of this LaTeX book by Herbert Voß] |
109 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages from October 2010 through March 2011] |
110 |
| ‘Magic’ comments in TeXworks 0.4
Joseph Wright [Intermediate — specify the encoding, spell checking language, engine and more] |
113 |
| Abstracts | |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 24–25 (October 2010) | 114 |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 41 (2010) | 115 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issue 2010-2 | 116 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 4/2010–1/2011 | 117 |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 10 (October 2010) | 118 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 119 |
| Letters | |
| Is TeX obsolete?
Jonathan Fine [Introductory — note on TeX's (lack of) use as a web service] |
120 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 121 |
| TUG financial statements for 2010
David Walden |
121 |
| TUG 2011 election
Jim Hefferon |
123 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 127 |
| TUG 2011 announcement | 128 |