The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 33:2, 2012
The Communications of
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| Complete issue 33:2 as one pdf (6.2mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 129 |
| TUG 2012 | |
| TUG 2012 conference information
participants, sponsors, thanks |
130 |
| TUG 2012: A first-time attendee
David Latchman report on the conference content and locale |
132 |
| Roundtable discussion: TeX consulting [Introductory — background information on and panel discussion with TeX consultants] | 138 |
| Typography | |
| My Boston: Some printing and publishing history
David Walden [Introductory — Boston-area printing activities from the city's founding to the present] |
146 |
| Towards evidence-based typography: First results
Boris Veytsman and Leyla Akhmadeeva [Introductory — no statistically significant difference in reading comprehension found between serif and sans serif fonts] |
156 |
| TeX and music: An update on TeXmuse
Federico Garcia [Intermediate Plus — musical spelling, musical thinking, musical typesetting] |
158 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 8
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — Extended floating point support; regular expressions; separating internal and external code; continual revolution — the `small bang'] |
165 |
| Preparing your thesis in LaTeX
David Latchman [Intermediate — step-by-step motivation for commonly used packages] |
167 |
| A university thesis class: Automation and its pitfalls
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — reasons and methods for creating Yet Another Thesis Class] |
172 |
| LaTeX source from word processors
Bart Childs [Intermediate — converting to a maintainable LaTeX source with Emacs, OOo, etc.] |
178 |
| Software & Tools | |
| The MacTeX install package for OSX
Richard Koch [Intermediate — current release and past history of MacTeX] |
184 |
| TeX and friends on a Pad
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — compiling and using the TeX system on an Android tablet] |
192 |
| YAWN — A TeX-enabled workflow for project estimation
Pavneet Arora [Intermediate — discussion of YAML specifications and the MVC approach] |
196 |
| Star TeX: The Next Generation
Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — proposing a homogenous reimplementation of TeX in Common Lisp] |
199 |
| Adapting ProofCheck to the author's needs
Bob Neveln and Bob Alps [Advanced — customizing the ProofCheck software for different logics] |
209 |
| Graphics | |
| Approaching Asymptote
Michael Doob and Jim Hefferon [Intermediate Plus — 2D and 3D examples of mathematical graphics] |
213 |
| Macros | |
| The joy of \csname...\endcsname
Amy Hendrickson [Advanced — introduction to and many examples using this fundamental TeX primitive] |
219 |
| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2012 abstracts (Cheswick, Garcia, Henderson, Mansour, Mittelbach, Peter, Preining, Robertson, Thiele) | 225 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2–3/2012 | 227 |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 13 (2012) | 228 |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 42 (2011) | 229 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April 2012–August 2012] |
230 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: About more alphabets: The types of Hermann Zapf
Boris Veytsman [review of this book on Zapf's life and work by Jerry Kelly] |
232 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 233 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG institutional members | 235 |
| News | |
| TeX Collection 2012 | 235 |
| Calendar | 236 |