The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 34:2, 2013
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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 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] |
111-112 |
| In memoriam: Barry Smith (1953–2012)
Doug Henderson |
112 |
| Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton [Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations] |
113-114 |
| Running TeX under Windows PowerShell
Adeline Wilcox [Introductory — tips on Unix-ish usage with this Windows shell] |
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 [Introductory — very high-level overview of changes in the 2013 software releases] |
120 |
| What is new in XeTeX 0.9999?
Khaled Hosny [Intermediate — moving to HarfBuzz, Core Text on Macs, and more] |
121-122 |
| MetaPost: PNG output
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — creating bitmap images directly from MetaPost] |
123 |
| Converting Wikipedia articles to LaTeX
Dirk Hünniger [Intermediate — the wb2pdf Haskell project for local conversion of wiki to LaTeX] |
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: Fonts
Peter Wilson a font of fleurons; fonts, GNU/Linux, and XeTeX; mixing traditional and system fonts |
132-135 |
| Fonts | |
| Interview with Charles Bigelow
Yue Wang [Intermediate — in-depth discussion of Lucida and typography] |
136-167 |
| Typography | |
| Oh, oh, zero!
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — survey of confusable characters (0O1Il, etc.) in historical and modern typography] errata (in fig.18) |
168-181 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Production notes
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — an application of FontForge, ttf2afm, and otftotfm] |
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, 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 [Intermediate Plus — Python package to create slides from literate programs] |
190-195 |
| Graphics | |
| Entry-level MetaPost 2: Move it
Mari Voipio [Intermediate — shifting, rotating, reflecting, repeating] |
196-199 |
| Creating Tufte-style bar charts and scatterplots using PGFPlots
Juernjakob Dugge [Intermediate Plus — including range frames and dot-dash plots in Tufte's style] |
200-204 |
| Typographers, programmers and mathematicians, or the case of an æsthetically pleasing interpolation
Bogusław Jackowski [Advanced — in-depth mathematical description of Hobby's algorithm for connecting Bézier segments] |
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 [Reports and notices — learning LaTeX by example] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
228 |
| Book review: Zapf Exhibition: The Calligraphy of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — description of the catalogue of this 2011 exhibition in Japan] |
229 |
| Book review: What Our Lettering Needs, by Rick Cusick
William Adams [Reports and notices — the contribution of Hermann Zapf to calligraphy & type design at Hallmark cards] |
230 |
| Book review: LaTeX Quick Reference, by Herbert Voß
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — comprehensive LaTeX reference] |
231 |
| Book review: Presentations with LaTeX, by Herbert Voß
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — 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 |
| TUG 2013 announcement | 244 |