The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 38:3, 2017
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| Complete issue 38:3 as one pdf (12mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Introductory — conferences, EduTeX group, LaTeX wikibook, institutional memberships] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Contents of TUGboat issues online; Birthday celebration for Donald Knuth; Public appearances by Don Knuth (online); The Doves Type: reprise; The Go fonts go Greek; Calcula, an experimental display typeface; Extra Bold: A forgery foiled |
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| Collecting memories of the beginnings of desktop publishing
David Walden [Introductory — informal report of a meeting of desktop publishing pioneers] The transcript of the entire meeting is available. |
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| Interview: Michael Sharpe
David Walden [Introductory — long-time user of TeX and recently active in the TeX fonts world] |
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| Advertising TeX
Hans Hagen [Introductory — TeX, Word, natural languages, recursion] |
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| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Asking effective questions
Carla Maggi [Introductory — creating minimal working examples, accepting answers on StackExchange, and more] |
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| Typography | |
| Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing—The 20th century, Volume 2 (ch. 6–8+)
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — third of three installments; chapter-by-chapter summaries for vol. 2 (1950–2000), ch. 6–8 and end materials] Combined three-part review. |
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| Fonts | |
| Serifed Greek type: Is it “Greek”?
Antonis Tsolomitis [Intermediate — origin and discussion of Athenais, a new titling font based on a pedestal in the Athens Parthenon] |
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| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt for beginners
Willi Egger [Intermediate — tutorial introduction to ConTeXt: page layout, headers, tables, figures, fonts] |
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| Graphics | |
| Art Concret, Basic Design and meta-design
Marcel Herbst [Intermediate — history and programs linking l'art concret, Basic Design, and MetaPost] |
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| The current state of the PSTricks project, part II
Herbert Voß [Intermediate — new PSTricks packages and features] |
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| LaTeX | |
| Glisterings: Reading lines; paragraph endings; in conclusion
Peter Wilson Reading external files; Paragraph final lines; Concluding the Glisterings |
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| DocVar: Manage and use document variables
Zunbeltz Izaola, Paulo Ney de Souza [Intermediate — package to handle general document metadata] |
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| Set my (pdf)pages free
David Walden [Introductory — using the pdfpages package to overcome inadvertent protection] |
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| Automatic generation of herbarium labels from spreadsheet data using LaTeX
R. Sean Thackurdeen, Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Intermediate — using datatool and more to automatically create standard herbarium labels] |
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| Typesetting actuarial symbols easily and consistently with actuarialsymbol and actuarialangle
David Beauchemin, Vincent Goulet [Intermediate — including correct pre/post sub-/super-script positioning around principal symbols] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Converting TeX from WEB to cweb
Martin Ruckert [Advanced — automatic conversion to CWEB, with comparisons to Web2C and LuaTeX] |
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| dvisvgm: Generating scalable vector graphics from DVI and EPS files
Martin Gieseking [Intermediate — thorough discussion of dvisvgm's development and notable features] |
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| Tricky fences
Hans Hagen [Advanced — extensible delimiters, regular characters, and controlling spacing differences in LuaTeX] |
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| Macros | |
| Testing indexes: testidx.sty
Nicola Talbot [Advanced — test methodology and exhaustive comparisons of makeindex, xindy, glossaries, and more] |
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| A note on \linepenalty
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — thorough analysis of how \linepenalty affects line breaking, with comparison with \looseness] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2017] |
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| Cartoon | |
| Comics: Typeface; Elefonts
John Atkinson |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Another seasonal puzzle: XII take II
David Carlisle [Advanced — fun with plain TeX] |
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| Book Reviews | |
| Book reviews: Shady Characters and The Book by Keith Houston
Peter Wilson [Reports and notices — review of these two books on the history and present of typography and books] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 3/2017 | |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 47 (2017) | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| News | |
| Practical TeX 2018 announcement
Conference page. |
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| Calendar | |