From cvr at river-valley.org Sat Nov 4 03:06:16 2017 From: cvr at river-valley.org (CV Radhakrishnan) Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 07:36:16 +0530 Subject: [Tugindia] Nov17 TUG news: halloween, typography essays, tugboat, conferences In-Reply-To: <201711032305.vA3N5drs017423@tug.org> References: <201711032305.vA3N5drs017423@tug.org> Message-ID: <26f8b28b-6a0a-87e2-1943-8b0c2e2a29c0@river-valley.org> Subject: Nov17 TUG news: halloween, typography essays, tugboat, conferences Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 00:05:39 +0100 From: TeX Users Group To: all-tug-members at tug.org Dear \TeX{}ers, Probably the most vivid \TeX-related experience for me this October was visiting CTAN on Halloween. I do not know what was more scary: the scream in my dynamics or the font on my screen. Certainly the CTAN team deserves a lot of candy. Among other interesting stories of the month was an essay on the history of mathematical typography by Eddie Smith (thanks to Martin Schr\"oder who found it): http://practicallyefficient.com/2017/10/13/from-boiling-lead-and-black-art.html While the author is not a professional historian of type, the essay is certainly worth reading. If you are in a mood for some late fall/early winter reading, here are a couple papers suggested by Norbert Preining: http://chalkdustmagazine.com/blog/is-there-a-perfect-maths-font/ http://www.vislab.ucl.ac.uk/pdf/MathBeauty.pdf TUGboat 38:3 is going to hit mailboxes soon. By tradition, the issue from a year ago, 37:2, is now available for the general public. This issue contains the proceedings of the Toronto conference, including the fantastic lecture by Prof. Charles Bigelow on the history of the Lucida math fonts (https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-2/tb116bigelow-lucidamath.pdf). The co-creator of the Lucida fonts, Kris Holmes, could not make it to Toronto, but I am happy to report that she has promised to visit PracTeX in 2018 and even conduct a calligraphy workshop there - another reason to attend the conference. And, of course, there will be TUG18 in Rio! Have a great November and hope to see many of you at our 2018 meetings! Boris Veytsman (TUG president)