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TUGboat 37:1, 2016

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Complete issue 37:1 as one pdf (5mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   1 
Editorial information   2 
 
General Delivery
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    R.I.P. Sebastian Rahtz, 1955–2016;     George Greenwade, 1956–2003;     Peter Breitenlohner, 1940–2015;     biblatex— Request for feedback;     LaTeX courses for credit;     Cooper Type;     More typography videos
 3-4 
Peter Breitenlohner, 1940–2015 
  Joachim Lammarsch, Marion Lammarsch 
 5 
The continuing TUG membership drive 
  Boris Veytsman 
 6-8 
ATypI 2016 with GUST participating 
  Jerzy Ludwichowski 
 9 
 
Letters
The Board's suspension of the President 
  Jonathan Fine 
 10-11 
 
Fonts
The libertine gets mathematical 
  Khaled Hosny      [Intermediate — new OpenType font family Libertinus, including math, based on Linux Libertine]
 12 
 
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 24, January 2016 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate — LuaTeX support; Unicode data and support; East European accents; Changes in Tools and Graphics]
 13-14 
LaTeX news, issue 25, March 2016 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate — LuaTeX; Documentation checksums; Updates to inputenc; Updates in Tools; amsmath; Related updates]
 15 
On managing large documents 
  Thomas Thurnherr      [Introductory — advice on managing labels, drafts, splitting sources, and more]
 16-17 
medstarbeamer: A new beamer class 
  Anagha Kumar      [Intermediate — on creating on a new beamer class, with special attention to colors]
 18-21 
Glisterings: Assemblies; Table talk 
  Peter Wilson 
         Adding to a macro; Piecing a paragraph; Splitting a column
 22-24 
 
Electronic Documents
Randomising assignments with SageTeX 
  Sabri Al-Safi      [Intermediate Plus — individualized assignments and corresponding answers via SageTeX]
 25-27 
 
Survey
Indexing: Goals, strategies and tactics 
  Ron Fehd      [Intermediate — index production approaches, hints, and theories]
 28-36 
 
Software & Tools
TeXShop review 
  Frans Absil      [Introductory — introduction to this MacOSX TeX editor]
 37-38 
TeXworks: A simple GUI with advanced options 
  Sytse Knypstra      [Introductory — overview of this cross-platform TeX editor emphasizing simplicity]
 39-40 
TeXstudio: Especially for LaTeX newbies 
  Siep Kroonenberg      [Introductory — overview of this cross-platform dedicated TeX editor]
 41-44 
10 years of TeX Live in Debian 
  Norbert Preining      [Intermediate — history of TeX and TeX Live packaging in Debian]
 45-47 
Paragraph designer with galley approach 
  Oleg Parashchenko      [Intermediate Plus — controlling paragraph styles and space above and below via a Python script]
 48-52 
LuaTeX 0.90 backend changes for PDF and more 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — renaming, removing, reorganizing many \pdf... primitives]
 53-57 
Still expanding LuaTeX: Possibly useful extensions 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — new features related to rules, spaces, tokens, list packing, error handling]
 58-65 
 
Graphics
MetaPost arrowhead variants 
  Alan Braslau, Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — adding ahvariant and ahdimple for other arrowhead styles]
 66 
 
Hyphenation
Hyphenation languages in LuaTeX 0.90 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — generalizing TeX82 hyphenation discretionaries, \lccode, etc.]
 66 
 
Bibliographies
A personal book catalogue: bookdb 
  Peter Wilson      [Intermediate — creating a custom BibTeX style for book collections and more]
 67-71 
OPmac-bib: Citations using *.bib files with no external program 
  Petr Olšák      [Intermediate — producing bibliographies using TeX macros and nothing else]
 71-78 
 
Macros
Exploring \romannumeral and expansion 
  Joseph Wright      [Advanced — controlled expansion with \romannumeral]
 79-81 
The apnum package: Arbitrary precision numbers implemented in TeX macros 
  Petr Olšák      [Advanced — expression parsing, basic arithmetic, and many functions in generic TeX]
 82-88 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2015–March 2016]
 89-90 
 
Book Reviews
LaTeX for Administrative Work by Nicola Talbot 
  Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this extensive exposition of LaTeX packages for many tasks]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 91-92 
Tout ce que vous avez toujours voulu savoir sur LaTeX … by Vincent Lozano 
  Charles Thomas      [Reports and notices — review of this introductory and intermediate book in French]
 93 
Giambattista Bodoni: His Life and His World by Valerie Lester 
  Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this general-audience book on Bodoni's life and context]
 94-96 
Note on the publisher of the Bodoni book: David R. Godine 
  David Walden      [Reports and notices — short profile of this unusual publisher of fine books]
 97-98 
 
Production Notes
Production notes 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — font support from Bob Tennent and Michael Sharpe, and the online font catalogue]
 98 
 
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 1/2016   98 
MAPS: Contents of issue 46 (2015)   99 
Eutypon: Contents of issue 34–35 (October 2015)   99-100 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   100 
TUG financial statements for 2015 
  Klaus Höppner 
 101 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   102 
 
News
Calendar   103 
CTAN   104 

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