The Communications of the TeX Users Group TUGboat 26:3, 2005

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General Delivery
From the President   Karl Berry     [Introductory — TUG activities and information for 2005]	179
Editorial comments   Barbara Beeton     [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]       Mimi Burbank retires       Brian $\$Hamilton Kelly$\$, 1945–2005       Erratum for TUGboat 25:2       E-mail addresses in TUGboat on line       The TUGboat schedule       Lucida Bright fonts now available from TUG       Knuth on NPR       Letters in stone	180
Interview with Donald E. Knuth   Gianluca Pignalberi     [Introductory — reprinted from the Free Software Magazine]	183
Implementing editors' ideas — lots of fun, sometimes even more trouble   Andrzej Tomaszewski     [Introductory — communication problems in the world of printing; reprinted from BachoTeX 2005]	186
Tutorials
Minutes in less than hours: Using LaTeX resources   Jim Hefferon     [Introductory — using existing packages as building blocks for a new class]	188
\starttext: Swelled rules and MetaPost   Steve Peter     [Introductory — introduction to using MetaPost in ConTeXt]	193
Typography
Typographers' Inn   Peter Flynn     [Introductory — superscripted ordinals, e-books et al., report layouts]	196
Philology
The alphabet tree   Peter Wilson     [Intermediate — survey of writing systems from Sumeria to the present, profusely illustrated]	199
Fonts
Advanced font features with XeTeX — the fontspec package   Will Robertson     [Intermediate — accessing built-in MacOSX fonts from LaTeX]	215
ByZLaTeX: A package for typesetting "Byzantine" music   Ioannis Vamvakas and Panagiotis Kotopoulis     [Intermediate — Metafont fonts, a LaTeX package, and a historical introduction]	224
Software & Tools
i-Installer: The evolution of a TeX install on MacOSX   Gerben Wierda     [Intermediate — past, present, and future of i-Installer and the associated gwTeX (re)distribution]	233
The MacTeX distribution   Herbert Schulz     [Introductory — Overview of a new easy-to-install distribution for MacOSX, based on gwTeX]	239
TeX Live for Debian   Norbert Preining     [Introductory — The TeX Live software distribution is now available as Debian packages]	241
Hyphenation patterns in ConTeXt   Hans Hagen     [Advanced — languages and hyphenation files, especially in ConTeXt]	243
Graphics
Diagxy, a Lego-like diagram package   Michael Barr     [Intermediate — a generic package for building diagrams from combining blocks]	246
Embedding fonts in MetaPost output   Troy Henderson     [Intermediate — making standalone eps files from MetaPost]	250
Hints & Tricks
Glisterings   Peter Wilson     [Intermediate Plus — empty arguments; clear to even page; capitalizing first characters]	253
Pearls of TeX programming     [Advanced — an array of short macros (some easy) with useful applications]       Barbara Beeton: New symbols from old       Karl Berry: Forcing page or column break in the midst of a paragraph       David Carlisle: Guess what       Taco Hoekwater: Die Hard       Bogusław Jackowski: Extra Béziers       Bogusław Jackowski: Locally change parameter values       David Kastrup: Comparing two strings known to consist only of characters       David Kastrup: Iterating with roman numerals       David Kastrup: Sorting words by length       Krzysztof Leszczyński: \csequence stack       Frank Mittelbach: \looseness not so loose       Petr Olšák: \expandafter\endcsname trick       Petr Olšák: Testing whether two characters form a ligature       Martin Schröder: Colour separation in pdfTeX       Bernd Raichle: Plain TeX's accent macros revisited       Philip Taylor: The Iterator.	256
The treasure chest   Mark LaPlante     [Intermediate — new and updated CTAN packages in 2005]	264
LaTeX
powerdot — making presentations with LaTeX   Hendri Adriaens and Chris Ellison     [Intermediate Plus — introduction to and implementation of a new class for making slides]	268
Horrors in LaTeX: How to misuse LaTeX and make a copy editor unhappy   Enrico Gregorio     [Introductory — examples of some egregious LaTeX errors, and corrections]	273
Macros
Eplain 3: Expanded plain TeX   Karl Berry and Oleg Katsitadze     [Intermediate — hyperlinks, graphics, color, and other user-level features for plain TeX]	280
Abstracts
TeXemplares: Contents of issue 7 (2005)	287
Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 14(3-4), 15(1), 15(2) (2004–05)	287
Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of double issue 44–45 (November 2004)	289
MAPS: Contents of issue 32 (2005)	290
The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issues 2005-1–2005-4	292
News
Calendar	297
Practical TeX 2006 announcement	302
EuroTeX 2006 announcement	303
TUG 2006 announcement	304
TUG Business
Financial statements for 2005   Robin Laakso	298
TeX development fund 2005 report   Karl Berry and Kaja Christiansen	300
Institutional members	302
TUG membership form	301
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services	300
Index
Table of contents, ordered by difficulty	c3