The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 33:3, 2012
The Communications of
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| Complete issue 33:3 as one pdf (9.8mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 237 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 238 |
| Editorial information | 238 |
| General Delivery | |
| Ab epistulis
Steve Peter [Introductory — Lucida OpenType; DVD; new printings from Knuth; in memoriam: Dan Carr and Bill Hill] |
239 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] New printings of Computers & Typesetting; Three printing-related symposia; An open source font from Adobe: Source Sans Pro; Errata: TUGboat 33:1 and 33:2 |
240 |
| KOMA-Script comes of age
Markus Kohm [Introductory — informal history of KOMA-Script's first eighteen years] |
241 |
| Almost 30 years of using TeX
Christina Thiele [Introductory — reflections on the TeX world through the years at a small typesetting house] |
245 |
| LaTeX | |
| Changing the font size in LaTeX
Thomas Thurnherr [Introductory — document-wide and local methods for changing font size] |
263 |
| The calculator and calculus packages: Arithmetic and functional calculations inside LaTeX
Robert Fuster [Intermediate — extensive new packages for mathematical computations, including functions and derivatives] |
265 |
| The xtemplate package: An example
Clemens Niederberger [Intermediate Plus — illustrating the concept of the LaTeX3 xtemplate with an example] |
272 |
| A patent application design flow in LaTeX and LyX
Peter Pupalaikis [Intermediate — support for US patent applications, especially the required drawings] |
276 |
| Page style tricks with scrpage2
Markus Kohm [Intermediate Plus — custom page styles for LaTeX, with examples from KOMA-Script] |
282 |
| Expanding Horizons | |
| CrafTeX: Applying TeX, MetaPost, and friends in crafts
Mari Voipio [Introductory — scrapbooking, cardcraft, tablet weaving, historical (re)creation, and more] |
285 |
| Philology | |
| MayaPS: Maya hieroglyphics with (La)TeX
Bruno Delprat and Stepan Orevkov [Intermediate Plus — flexible PostScript-based system for typesetting Maya] |
289 |
| Experiences with Arabic font development
Sherif Mansour and Hossam Fahmy [Intermediate Plus — development and debugging of the Metafont-based AlQalam Arabic script] |
295 |
| Fonts | |
| The fonts we choose
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — essay on the importance of font choices] |
299 |
| Using TeX Gyre Pagella OpenType Math
Herbert Voß [Intermediate — example of loading an OpenType math font in XeTeX and LuaTeX] |
301 |
| OpenType math font development: Progress and challenges
Ulrik Vieth [Intermediate — survey of available OpenType math fonts and technology] |
302 |
| From drawn to filled paths
Linus Romer [Advanced — sequence of examples of `o' using all pen and outline methods] |
309 |
| Publishing | |
| Glisterings
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — cutout windows] |
313 |
| Macros | |
| Stubborn leaders and juggling boxes: A slightly unusual table of contents
Boris Veytsman [Advanced — methodology of a macro for leaders at the top of a box] |
316 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2012] |
319 |
| Book Reviews | |
| Book review: PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX
Boris Veytsman [review of this reference on PSTricks by Herbert Voß, the principal maintainer] |
320 |
| Book review: Just My Type: A book about fonts
David Walden [review of this book of varied essays on fonts by Simon Garfield] |
322 |
| Abstracts | |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 56 (2011) (simultaneously published as MAPS 42 (2011) and Zpravodaj 2–4/2011) | 324 |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 14 (2012) | 325 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issue 2012-1 | 326 |
| Letters | |
| PUB and pre-TeX history
Don Knuth [Introductory — note about an early computer typesetting program by Larry Tesler] |
328 |
| News & Announcements | |
| TUG 2013 announcement | 328 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 329 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 330 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2013 election
Barbara Beeton |
332 |