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TUGboat 41:2, 2020

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TUG 2020 Proceedings

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Complete issue 41:2 as one pdf (22mb) 
    Videos for all talks.
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   117 
 
TUG 2020
TUG 2020 conference information 
    organizers, sponsors, program
 118-119 
Random musings on TUG2020 online   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton 
 120 
Observations on the TeX Users Group's 41st Annual Conference—TUG 2020 in the COVID-19 era   (doi) 
  David Walden 
 121-122 
TUG 2020: A report and future recommendations   (doi) 
  Paulo Ney de Souza 
 123-126 
TeX conferences and General Meetings, this year and next   (doi) 
  Jonathan Fine 
 126-127 
Interview with Javier Bezos   (doi) 
  Paulo Ney de Souza      [Reports and notices — live interview with Javier Bezos, maintainer of Babel and other packages]
 127-131 
Interview with Philip Kime   (doi) 
  Paulo Ney de Souza      [Reports and notices — live interview with Philip Kime, Jungian psychoanalyst and maintainer of Biber and BibLaTeX]
 132-138 
 
Multilingual Document Processing
Beyond Roman fonts: Extra dimensions in Malayalam fonts   (doi) 
  KH Hussain, KV Rajeesh, Aravind Rajendran      [Intermediate Plus — supporting the unusually large descender space needed for Malayalam, and the Rachana font design]
 139-144 
The road to Noto   (doi) 
  Steven Matteson      [Intermediate — from the Rosetta Stone, through polyglot bibles and Droid, to Noto]
 145-154 
Typographical explorations in two unicase alphabets   (doi) 
  Jennifer Claudio      [Introductory — consideration of written emotion in scripts that do not distinguish case]
 155-156 
 
Graphics
Your personal LaTeX bookshelf: Improving your background in a time of lockdown   (doi) 
  Peter Flynn      [Intermediate — randomized sizes and colors for book spines from BibTeX sources]
 157-159 
 
Humanities
Noticing history—a personal view   (doi) 
  David Walden      [Intermediate — how practitioners can help preserve and document primary sources and other computing history]
 160-167 
TeX in church: A typographical adventure   (doi) 
  Paulo Cereda      [Intermediate — creating songsheets and booklets with LilyPond and LuaTeX]
 168-170 
 
Education
Empowerment and teaching LaTeX   (doi) 
  Astrid Schmölzer, Sarah Lang      [Introductory — four quick lessons for those interested in empowering new users, especially in the humanities]
 171-172 
Didactical reduction versus references: How to better teach LaTeX   (doi) 
  Sarah Lang      [Intermediate — tech privilege, tacit knowledge, and working between beginner and mastery]
 173-175 
 
Software & Tools
LaTeX-on-HTTP: LaTeX as a commodity web service for application developers   (doi) 
  Yoan Tournade      [Advanced — JSON-based HTTP API for running LaTeX over the web]
 175-178 
Using Overleaf for collaborative projects: First impressions and lessons learned   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman      [Intermediate — using Overleaf and git together for metacomments and version control]
    Reference [2], by Satish et al., was still under review when this TUGboat issue went to press. The article has since been published by the Association for Computational Linguistics, and is available.
 179-181 
The Island of TeX: Developing abroad, your next destination   (doi) 
  Island of TeX      [Intermediate — overview of development projects at https://gitlab.com/islandoftex]
 182-184 
The design concept for llmk—Light LaTeX Make   (doi) 
  Takuto Asakura      [Intermediate — simple, explicit workflow specification via TOML]
 185-187 
Typesetting product catalogs and other database-driven documents with the speedata Publisher   (doi) 
  Patrick Gundlach      [Intermediate Plus — flexible XML-based publishing from LuaTeX, without TeX macros]
 188-193 
 
LaTeX
A first set of LaTeX packages   (doi) 
  Jim Hefferon      [Introductory — one recommended package per general area, covering most of what beginners need]
 194-195 
Presenting our LaTeX workshop online   (doi) 
  Susan DeMeritt, Cheryl Ponchin      [Introductory — preparation of videos and syllabus for the TUG2020 workshop]
 196 
learnlatex.org: Taking LaTeX training fully interactive   (doi) 
  David Carlisle, Paulo Cereda, Joseph Wright      [Intermediate — new tutorial site, with LaTeX running directly from the web pages]
 197-199 
A review of learnlatex.org   (doi) 
  Jennifer Claudio      [Intermediate — examination of this new web site for guiding creation of first documents]
 199-200 
Quo vadis LaTeX(3) Team—A look back and at the upcoming years   (doi) 
  Frank Mittelbach, LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate Plus — the last 30 years, and upcoming hook management, tagged PDF, and more]
 201-207 
 
Electronic Documents
The HINT Project: Status and open questions   (doi) 
  Martin Ruckert, Gudrun Socher      [Intermediate Plus — mobile and tablet reading of TeX output; soliciting information for future work]
 208-211 
MiniLaTeX: A subset of LaTeX for the Web   (doi) 
  James Carlson      [Advanced — no-setup LaTeX rendered on the fly to HTML in any browser]
 212-214 
Why the LaTeX community should care about SGML   (doi) 
  William Hammond      [Intermediate Plus — benefits of using SGML over XML for LaTeX processing; need for SGML library maintenance]
 215-218 
LaTeX technologies at work—aesthetically beautiful PDFs on the fly from XML input: XML Page Composition (XPC) micro-service in the cloud   (doi) 
  Rishi T, Aravind Rajendran, CV Rajagopal, CV Radhakrishnan      [Intermediate Plus — automated PDF creation and quality control from XML sources]
 219-222 
Tagging with LaTeX— Part 1: Author considerations   (doi) 
  Ross Moore      [Advanced — real-world examples of LaTeX source to archive accessible PDF]
 223-242 
 
Abstracts
TUG 2020 abstracts   (doi) 
  Jonathan Fine, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Paul Gessler, Patrick Ion, Marcel Krüger, John MacFarlane, Ross Moore, Eric Mc Sween, Norbert Preining, Thomas Price, Brandon Rhodes, samcarter, Michael Sharpe, Paulo Ney de Souza 
    Videos for all talks.
 243-245 
Die TeXnische Komödie 2–3/2020   246 
Zpravodaj 2020/1–2   247-248 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest   (doi) 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–August 2020]
 249-250 
 
News
Calendar   251 
 
TUG Business
TUG 2021 election   (doi) 
  TUG Elections committee 
 252 
Institutional members   253 
 
Advertisements
TUG 2020 sponsors   253-254 
TeX consulting and production services   255-256 

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