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Front cover	c1
Inside front cover	c2
Contents ordered by difficulty	c3
Title page	1
Editorial information	2
TUG Business
Institutional members	2
General Delivery
Ab epistulis   Steve Peter     [Introductory — CTAN; conferences; interviews and reviews]	3
Editorial comments   Barbara Beeton     [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]       This is the year for TeX bug reports;       Don Knuth in the news (again);       A new TeX calendar;       Compulsive Bodoni / the Parmigiano Typographic System;       Printing technology, old and new;       Interactive and collaborative on-line LaTeX	4
Resources
CTAN: Relaunch of the Web portal   Gerd Neugebauer     [Introductory — announcement and description of a new www.ctan.org]	6
Fonts
Fonts! Fonts! Fonts!   Bob Tennent     [Introductory — Quattrocentro, Cabin, EB Garamond, Libertine/Biolinum; implementation notes]	10
Typography
Typographers' Inn   Peter Flynn     [Intermediate — Font installer; class and package creation; grids; business cards; running ragged]	14
Graphics
Entry-level MetaPost: On the grid   Mari Voipio     [Introductory — building up a graphic step by step, with troubleshooting tips]	17
Recreating historical patterns with MetaPost   Mari Voipio     [Introductory — Greek keys, Roman mosaics, Celtic knots and keys]	21
The xpicture package   Robert Fuster     [Intermediate Plus — extending LaTeX's picture environment and related packages]	26
LaTeX
Side-by-side figures in LaTeX   Thomas Thurnherr     [Introductory — using minipage; subfigure; subfig; subcaption; columns in beamer]	34
Glisterings   Peter Wilson     [Intermediate Plus — repetition; verbatims; small pages; prefixing section heads]	37
The esami package for examinations   Grazia Messineo and Salvatore Vassallo     [Intermediate Plus — creating tests, exercises, etc., supporting random choice of parameters]	40
Dreamboat
E-TeX: Guidelines for future TeX extensions — revisited   Frank Mittelbach     [Advanced — in-depth analysis of open TeX typesetting issues]	47
Software & Tools
LuaJITTeX   Luigi Scarso     [Advanced — TeX, Lua, and just-in-time compilation]	64
ConTeXt
ConTeXt: Just-in-time LuaTeX   Hans Hagen     [Advanced — performance tests and analysis of JIT and different Lua versions]	72
ConTeXt basics for users: Images   Aditya Mahajan     [Intermediate — local and remote image inclusion, scaling, rotation, debugging]	79
Macros
New CSplain of 2012   Petr Olšák     [Intermediate Plus — many new features in Czech/Slovak TeX — more languages, encodings, fonts, etc.]	83
OPmac: Macros for plain TeX   Petr Olšák     [Intermediate Plus — font selection, tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies, margins, etc.]	88
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest   Karl Berry     [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, November 2012–March 2013]	96
Production notes   Karl Berry     [Intermediate — sketch of current TUGboat printing; introduction to “Colophon”]	97
Book Reviews
Book review: The Computer Science of TeX and LaTeX   Boris Veytsman     [review of this book by Victor Eijkhout]	98
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 4/2012–1/2013	99
Eutypon: Contents of issue 28–29 (October 2012)	100
News
Calendar	101
News & Announcements
TUG 2013 announcement	102
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services	103
TUG Business
TUG membership form	105
TUG financial statements for 2012   Karl Berry	106
TUG 2013 election   Barbara Beeton	107
Fiction
Colophon   Daniel Quinn	108