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Complete issue 34:2 as one pdf (9.4mb)
Front cover	c1
Inside front cover	c2
Contents ordered by difficulty	c3
Title page	109
Editorial information	110
TUG Business
Institutional members	110
General Delivery
Ab epistulis   Steve Peter     [Introductory — conferences; software; reviews]	111
In memoriam: Barry Smith (1953–2012)   Doug Henderson	112
Editorial comments   Barbara Beeton     [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]       Barry Smith, 1953–2012;       Yet another DEK interview;       TeXdoc on line;       Fonts, typography, and printing — on the web and in print	112
Hyphenation exception log   Barbara Beeton	113–114
Running TeX under Windows PowerShell   Adeline Wilcox	114
Dreamboat
Does TeX have a future?   Hans Hagen     [Introductory — musings on TeX, interactivity, ebooks, page layout, and more]	115–119
Software & Tools
TeX Collection 2013 DVD   TeX Collection editors	120
What is new in XeTeX 0.9999?   Khaled Hosny	121–122
MetaPost: PNG output   Taco Hoekwater	123
Converting Wikipedia articles to LaTeX   Dirk Hünniger	124
Fonts
A survey of text font families   Michael Sharpe     [Intermediate — comparison of many font families usable with (La)TeX for general text]	125–131
LaTeX
Glisterings   Peter Wilson	132–135
Fonts
Interview with Charles Bigelow   Yue Wang     [Intermediate — in-depth discussion of Lucida and typography]	136–167
Typograph
Oh, oh, zero!   Charles Bigelow     [Intermediate — survey of confusable characters (0O1Il, etc.) in historical and modern typography]	168–181
Hints & Tricks
Production notes   Karl Berry	181
The treasure chest   Karl Berry     [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–July 2013]	182–183
LaTeX
Preparing for scientific conferences with LaTeX: A short practical how-to   Paweł Łupkowski and Mariusz Urbański     [Intermediate Plus — methods for creation of a related paper, presentation, and poster]	184–189
Literate Programming
LiPPGen: A presentation generator for literate-programming-based teaching   Hans-Georg Eßer	190–195
Graphics
Entry-level MetaPost 2: Move it   Mari Voipio	196–199
Creating Tufte-style bar charts and scatterplots using PGFPlots   Juernjakob Dugge	200–204
Typographers, programmers and mathematicians, or the case of an æsthetically pleasing interpolation   Bogusław Jackowski	205–222
Philology
Representing linguistic pitch in (Xe)LaTeX   Kevin Donnelly     [Advanced — typesetting linguistic pitch representations, directly or with TikZ, et al.]	223–227
Book Reviews
Book review: Learning LaTeX, by David Griffiths and Desmond Higham   Boris Veytsman     [learning LaTeX by example]	228
Book review: Zapf Exhibition: The Calligraphy of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf   Boris Veytsman     [description of the catalogue of this 2011 exhibition in Japan]	229
Book review: What Our Lettering Needs, Rick Cusick   Will Adams     [The contribution of Hermann Zapf to calligraphy & type design at Hallmark cards]	230
Book review: LaTeX Quick Reference, Herbert Voß   Boris Veytsman     [comprehensive LaTeX reference]	231
Book review: Presentations with LaTeX, Herbert Voß   Boris Veytsman     [slide generation with beamer and much more]	232–233
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services	233–234
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 2/2013	235
ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 15 (April 2013)	235
GUST: EuroBachoTeX 2013	236–239
TUG Business
TUG 2013 election   Barbara Beeton	240–242
News
Calendar	243
News & Announcements
TUG 2013 announcement	244