The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 33:1, 2012
The Communications of
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| Complete issue 33:1 as one pdf (4.2mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| General Delivery | |
| TUG 2012 announcement | 2 |
| Ab epistulis
Steve Peter [Introductory — group membership category; software; conferences; book reviews] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Don Knuth, reprise; An alternate view of CTAN; Linotype: The Film; Barriers to effective communication: Jean-luc Doumont; Kern it!; A wonderful use of old books; The Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp |
3 |
| Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton |
5 |
| In memoriam: Tony Siegman, 1931–2011
Bruce Armbruster and Jeannie Howard Siegman |
7 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — titling and centering; beaten into submission; afterthought] |
8 |
| Fonts | |
| Lucida OpenType fonts available from TUG
Karl Berry |
11 |
| The Amiri typeface
Khaled Hosny [Introductory — development and status of this new Arabic typeface, a revival of the Bulaq Press design] |
12 |
| Bibliographies | |
| Biber — the next generation backend processor for BibLaTeX
Philip Kime [Intermediate — advanced sorting, name processing, and much more for bibliographies] |
13 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| XeLaTeX and the PDF archivable format
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate — generating PDF/A with XeLaTeX and Ghostscript] |
16 |
| LaTeX | |
| Avoid eqnarray!
Lars Madsen [Intermediate — reasons for avoiding and alternatives to the eqnarray environment] |
21 |
| The unknown picture environment
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate — the original, powerful, and simple drawing environment for LaTeX] |
26 |
| The apa6 LaTeX class: Challenges encountered updating to new requirements
Brian Beitzel [Intermediate Plus — implementing the 6th Edition APA formatting, especially citations] |
33 |
| Publishing | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — timelines; parsing a filename] |
39 |
| LaTeX | |
| Some LaTeX2e tricks and tips (V)
Luca Merciadri [Intermediate — numbering paragraphs; MATLAB graphics and code; customizing makeindex] |
43 |
| LaTeX3 news, issues 6–7
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — LaTeX3 team expands; `big bang'; LaTeX3 on GitHub; deforming boxes; TeX-based regex engine; xparse improves; galley; relationships between document items] |
46 |
| Software & Tools | |
| User-friendly web utilities for generating LaTeX output and MetaPost graphics
Troy Henderson [Intermediate — online previewers for LaTeX, MetaPost, and function graphing] |
48 |
| TeX on Windows: MiKTeX or TeX Live?
Joseph Wright [Introductory — quick comparison of the two biggest free TeX distributions available for Windows] |
53 |
| Generating barcodes with LuaTeX
Patrick Gundlach [Intermediate Plus — a worked-out example of Lua-to-TeX communication] |
54 |
| OpenType fonts in LuaTeX
Paul Isambert [Advanced — introduction to and exploration of OpenType internals] Example font. |
59 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt: Updating the code base
Hans Hagen [Advanced — the further evolution of ConTeXt, detailed module by module] |
86 |
| Graphics | |
| Computing the area and winding number for a Bézier curve
Bogusław Jackowski [Advanced — mathematical derivations and Metafont/MetaPost code for these operations] |
98 |
| Three-dimensional graphics with PGF/TikZ
Keith Wolcott [Advanced — mathematics and code examples for drawing surfaces of revolution, satellite orbits, sphere intersections] Article source. |
102 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: Trees, maps, and theorems
Pavneet Arora [review of this book on effective communication by Jean-luc Doumont] |
114 |
| Book review: Design for hackers
Boris Veytsman [review of this modern introduction to design by David Kadavy] |
116 |
| Book review: Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth
David Walden [review of this ninth volume, completing the series of Knuth's papers] |
118 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, November 2011–March 2012] |
119 |
| Abstracts | |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 26–27 (October 2011) | 121 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 4/2011–1/2012 | 121 |
| Asian Journal of TeX: Contents of volumes 4–5 (2010–2011) | 122 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 124 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 126 |
| TUG financial statements for 2011
Karl Berry |
126 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 128 |