The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 35:1, 2014
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| Complete issue 35:1 as one pdf (6mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| General Delivery | |
| Ab epistulis
Steve Peter [Introductory — what publishers want] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Updike prize for student type design; Talk by Matthew Carter; |
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| The TeX tuneup of 2014
Donald Knuth [Intermediate Plus — the 2014 updates to TeX, Metafont, etc.] |
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| Making lists: A journey into unknown grammar
James Hunt [Introductory — prescriptions for correct usage of itemized, enumerated, definition lists] |
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| In memoriam Jean-Pierre Drucbert
Jean-Michel Hufflen |
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| Letters | |
| Does not suffice to run LaTeX a finite number of times to get cross-references right
Jaime Gaspar [Introductory — simple counterexample] |
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| Fonts | |
| Fetamont: An extended logo typeface
Linus Romer [Intermediate — the Metafont logo in many variants, anchors and kerning classes in Metafont, history] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 9
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — Hiatus?; expl3 in the community; logo; recent activity; what can you do for LaTeX3?] |
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| Introduction to presentations with beamer
Thomas Thurnherr [Intermediate — sequence of examples for making slides for presentations] |
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| The beamer class: Controlling overlays
Joseph Wright [Intermediate — practical examples for revealing slides step by step] |
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| Boxes and more boxes
Ivan Pagnossin [Introductory — introduction to box concepts and usage in LaTeX] |
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| Glisterings: Glyphs; long labels
Peter Wilson Asterism; Raising a character; Boxing a glyph; Glyph widths; Font size; Long labels |
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| The pkgloader and lt3graph packages: Toward simple and powerful package management for LaTeX
Michiel Helvensteijn [Intermediate Plus — addressing LaTeX package conflicts in a general way, and general graph representation] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| An overview of Pandoc
Massimiliano Dominici [Intermediate — conversion from Markdown to many output formats, including LaTeX] |
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| Numerical methods with LuaLaTeX
Juan Montijano, Mario Pérez, Luis Rández, Juan Luis Varona [Intermediate Plus — examples of mathematical computations and graphics eased by LuaTeX] |
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| Parsing PDF content streams with LuaTeX
Taco Hoekwater [Advanced — overview of the new pdfparser library in LuaTeX] |
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| ModernDvi: A high quality rendering and modern DVI viewer
Antoine Bossard (orcid), Takeyuki Nagao [Intermediate Plus — a multi-threading application available at the Windows Store] |
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| Selection in PDF viewers and a LuaTeX bug
Hans Hagen [Advanced — selection of text vs. display math leads to uncovering a bug in new primitives] |
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| Parsers in TeX and using CWEB for general pretty-printing
Alexander Shibakov [Advanced — using bison and flex to implement parsers and scanners in TeX] |
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| Graphics | |
| Entry-level MetaPost 4: Artful lines
Mari Voipio [Introductory — line widths, joins, caps, dashes, arrows, default options, grids] |
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| drawdot in MetaPost: A bug, a fix
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — bug report from Knuth: drawdot should not draw an open dot] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| HTML to LaTeX transformation
Frederik Schlupkothen [Intermediate — introduces a mapping from HTML commands to LaTeX, using several packages] |
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| Publishing | |
| Scientific documents written by novice researchers: A personal experience in Latin America
Ludger Suarez–Burgoa [Introductory — 20 years of writing scientific documents, from the typewriter to a new LaTeX class] |
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| Survey | |
| Macro memories, 1964–2013
David Walden [Advanced — informal musings about macros in TeX, M4, the early ARPANET, etc.] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 30–31 (October 2013) | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 1/2014 | |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, December 2013–March 2014] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Book reviews: LaTeX for Complete Novices and Using LaTeX to Write a PhD Thesis, by Nicola Talbot
Boris Veytsman (orcid) See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Book review: Dynamic Documents with R and knitr, by Yihui Xie
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Reports and notices — including some tutorial material on data exploration and plotting] |
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| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2013
Karl Berry (orcid) |
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| Institutional members | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |
| TUG 2014 announcement | |