The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 37:1, 2016
The Communications of the
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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] |
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 |