The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 32:2, 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 32:2 as one pdf (6.3mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Editorial information | |
| Title page | 129 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — software; conferences; interviews] |
131 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Boris=books; EuroBachoTeX 2011; 150 years at the US Government Printing Office; The raster tragedy |
131 |
| Software & Tools | |
| TeX Collection 2011 DVD
TeX Collection editors [Introductory — very high-level overview of changes in the 2011 software releases] |
132 |
| TeXworks — As you like it
Stefan Löffler [Intermediate — new scripting and other features in TeXworks 0.4] |
133 |
| MetaPost 1.750: Numerical engines
Taco Hoekwater [Advanced — supporting back-end numerical libraries, MPFR and decNumber] |
136 |
| Reading and executing source code
Herbert Voß [Intermediate Plus — typesetting and executing LaTeX and other source] |
139 |
| Education | |
| Teaching LaTeX to the students of mathematics — the experience from The Jan Kochanowski University
Krzysztof Pszczoła [Introductory — experiences with and approaches to teaching LaTeX] |
145 |
| Graphics | |
| Drawing tables: Graphic fun with LuaTeX
Paul Isambert [Intermediate Plus — using Lua for drawing, with PDF output] |
146 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| E-books: Old wine in new bottles
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — reflections on using and producing ebooks, especially with ConTeXt] |
152 |
| iTeX — Document formatting in an ereader world
William Cheswick [Intermediate — producing bundles for practical iPad reading] |
158 |
| Fonts | |
| Math alphabets and the mathalfa package
Michael Sharpe [Intermediate — survey of and package for available math script, double-struck, and fraktur fonts] |
164 |
| Another incarnation of Lucida: Towards Lucida OpenType
Ulrik Vieth and Mojca Miklavec [Intermediate — review of font technologies and a new implementation of Lucida] |
169 |
| MFLua
Luigi Scarso [Advanced — integrating Lua into Metafont for post-processing glyphs] |
177 |
| Macros | |
| Macro interfaces and the getoptk package
Michael Le Barbier Grünewald [Intermediate Plus — survey of macro interfaces; implementing a new keyword interface for plain TeX] |
185 |
| LaTeX | |
| The cals package: Multipage tables with decorations
Oleg Parashchenko [Intermediate Plus — an advanced table package] |
193 |
| Publishing | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate — ornaments with the Web-O-Mints font] |
202 |
| LaTeX | |
| Merciadri packages: An overview
Luca Merciadri [Intermediate — bigints; dashundergaps; plantslabels; matrices with borders] |
206 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Paper setup
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate — predefined and custom page and print sizes in ConTeXt] |
211 |
| Bibliographies | |
| Experiences with notes, references, and bibliographies
David Walden [Intermediate — a variety of practical approaches to bibliographies, with many examples] |
213 |
| Typography | |
| Sixty years of book design at St. Gallen, Switzerland
Paul Shaw [Intermediate — discussion of this design exhibition, with many examples] Reprinted from Print magazine's online newsletter, Imprint. |
217 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 224 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: A Specimen Portfolio of Wood Type in the Cary Collection
William Adams [review of collection of wood type specimens (RIT Press)] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
225 |
| Book review: The Art of the Book in the Twentieth Century
Boris Veytsman [review of this typography book by Jerry Kelly (RIT Press)] |
226 |
| Book review: LaTeX Beginner's Guide
Boris Veytsman [review of this introductory book by Stefan Kottwitz (Packt Publishers)] |
228 |
| An appreciation: The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A
David Walden [discussion of Knuth's magnum opus (Addison-Wesley)] |
230 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–July 2011] |
233 |
| Abstracts | |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 54–55 (2010) | 235 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 2/2011 | 235 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 20(4) (2010) | 236 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 237 |
| Letters | |
| Status of the American core CTAN node
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — web view of CTAN enhanced with extra characterizations] |
238 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 239 |
| TUG 2011 announcement | 240 |