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TUGboat 27:1, 2006

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EuroTeX 2006 Proceedings (Debrecen, Hungary)

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Complete issue 27:1 as one pdf (7.1mb) 
Inside front cover   c1 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   1 
EuroTeX 2006 conference delegates, and sponsors   2 
 
General Delivery
The Hungarian TeX Rhapsody—EuroTeX 2006 
  Gyöngyi Bujdosó      [Introductory — introduction to the EuroTeX 2006 conference]
 3 
Impressions from EuroTeX 2006 
  Gábor Bella      [Introductory — informal introduction to and review of EuroTeX 2006, with photos]
 4 
 
Typography
Would Aldus Manutius have used TeX? 
  András Virágvölgyi      [Introductory — beginnings of typography and the Aldine workshop]
 8 
 
Macros
The colourful side of TeX 
  Katalin Fried      [Introductory — recollections of TeX adventures through the years]
 13 
 
Software & Tools
Opening up the type 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate — high-level plan for supporting OpenType in luaTeX and pdfTeX]
 16 
MetaPost developments—autumn 2006 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate — new features and fixes in the forthcoming MetaPost release]
 18 
Managing a network TeX installation under Windows 
  Siep Kroonenberg      [Intermediate — procedures and tips for a MiKTeX-based site-wide installation]
 22 
Typography based on-line help on TeX 
  Gyöngyi Bujdosó      [Introductory — towards an on-line TeX help system including typographical assistance]
 28 
Automatic non-standard hyphenation in OpenOffice.org 
  László Németh      [Intermediate Plus — extending TeX's hyphenation algorithm to handle spelling changes and more]
 32 
What tools do ConTeXt users have? 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — review of tools for manipulating the TeX environment, graphics, and more]
 38 
KöMaL CD—The execution 
  Ildikó Miklós      [Introductory — making the archives of a century-old journal accessible online]
 43 
 
Electronic documents
A pdfLaTeX-based automated journal production system 
  Thierry Bouche      [Intermediate Plus — design of a generic system for production of many scientific journals]
 45 
Server side PDF generation based on LaTeX templates 
  István Bencze, Balázs Fark, László Hatala, Péter Jeszenszky      [Intermediate Plus — survey of free Java tools for PDF generation and LaTeX integration, with examples]
 51 
 
Software & Tools
Managing a math exercise database with LaTeX 
  Péter Szabó, András Hraskó      [Intermediate Plus — using LaTeX as source for a database with multiple output forms]
 57 
 
Fonts
The making of a (TeX) font 
  Taco Hoekwater, Hans Hagen      [Introductory — from cow (and a few sheep) drawings to digital letterforms]
 62 
Font installation the shallow way 
  Siep Kroonenberg      [Intermediate — examples of simple font installation using afm2pl and afm2tfm]
 66 
Font verification and comparison in examples 
  Karel Píška      [Advanced — detailed examples and tools for exacting font comparisons]
 71 
 
Bibliographies
MlBibTeX meets ConTeXt 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Advanced — adding support for ConTeXt to MlBibTeX]
 76 
 
Tutorial
Appendix G illuminated 
  Bogusław Jackowski      [Advanced — illustrations and explanations of fine points of TeX's math typesetting]
 83 
 
Omega
Open-belly surgery in Ω2 
  Yannis Haralambous, Gábor Bella, Atif Gulzar      [Advanced — radical reorganization of Omega to support general modularity and textemes]
 91 
New hyphenation techniques in Ω2 
  Yannis Haralambous      [Advanced — supporting generalized hyphenation routines]
 98 
 
Abstracts
EuroTeX 2006 abstracts 
  Hossam Fahmy, Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Jean-Michel Hufflen, István Radó, Martin Schröder, Péter Szabó 
 104 
 
News
Calendar   106 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   107 
TUG 2007 election   107 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   108 

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