TUGboat

The Communications of 
the TeX Users Group


TUGboat 42:1, 2021
previous issue   next issue   all issues

printing press
 

Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.

If you're not already a member, we hope you'll consider joining TUG to support TUGboat and other TeX projects. More information on TUG member access.

Complete issue 42:1 as one pdf (26mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   1 
Editorial information   2 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   2 
 
General Delivery
From the president   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Introductory — license usage on CTAN; dangers of non-commercial licensing] 		 3 
Editorial comments   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    R.I.P. Bob Morris;     BaKoMa author has died;     J. W. Gibbs and why an annual lecture is named for him;     Jubilees to celebrate: Computers & Typesetting and 50 years of the ebook;     CTAN mirrors are now https;     A self-published LaTeX book and ebook 		 4-5 
Hendrik Vervliet: 1923–2020   (doi) 
  Jacques André      [Introductory — memorial and summary of work of this noted scholar of typography] 		 6 
The TeX tuneup of 2021   (doi) 
  Donald Knuth      [Advanced — the 2021 updates to TeX, Metafont, vols. A–E, et al.] 		 7-10 
TeX entomology in 2021   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Introductory — filtering the incoming bugs for DEK's 2021 tune-up] 		 10 
Hyphenation exception log   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton      [Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations; see ctan.org/pkg/hyphenex] 		 11 
Year 2020 at GUTenberg   (doi) 
  Jérémy Just      [Introductory — association is preserved by vote, but the need for more cooperation remains] 		 12-13 
 
Dreamboat
Lapses in TeX—a look backward   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton      [Intermediate Plus — alternatives to past decisions that could have alleviated current problems] 		 13-17 
 
Typography
Typographers' Inn   (doi) 
  Peter Flynn      [Introductory — Page numbering revisited; Type 1 (PostScript) fonts; Afterthought] 		 18-19 
Interview with Amelia Hugill-Fontanel   (doi) 
  David Walden      [Introductory — discussion with the associate curator at RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection, cary.rit.edu] 		 20-33 
 
LaTeX
The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Crazy Little Thing Called Glue   (doi) 
  Carla Maggi      [Intermediate — specifying and fixing spacing, horizontal and vertical; and floats] 		 34-39 
Creating document commands: The good, the bad and the ugly   (doi) 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate — best practices for using \NewDocumentCommand from xparse] 		 40-41 
\NewDocumentCommand versus \newcommand versus …   (doi) 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate Plus — extended comparison of the xparse \NewDocumentCommand to traditional alternatives] 		 41-43 
 
Survey
Comparison of OpTeX with other formats: LaTeX and ConTeXt   (doi) 
  Petr Olšák      [Intermediate Plus — differing concepts, implementations, usage of three formats] 		 44-49 
 
Fonts
GUST e-foundry font projects, closing report 2019–2020   (doi) 
  Jerzy Ludwichowski      [Intermediate — status of OpenType TeX Gyre fonts, including math, and new Algotype font production software] 		 50-51 
The NewComputerModern font family   (doi) 
  Antonis Tsolomitis      [Intermediate — OpenType fonts greatly extending Latin Modern, with complete coverage of Unicode math (https://ctan.org/pkg/newcm)] 		 52-55 
An attempt at creating font transitions   (doi) 
  S.K. Venkatesan      [Advanced — an example of mathematically interpolating between sans serif and serif fonts] 		 56-59 
Scaled fonts and glyphs   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — engine extensions in lmtx for dynamic glyph scaling] 		 60-65 
Some fonts with recent TeX support   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Introductory — terse showings of some fonts appearing on CTAN in the last year] 		 65 
 
Macros
Improvements to the generalized mediation macros in The Metafontbook   (doi) 
  Hu Yajie      [Advanced — meeting the generalized mediation macro challenge in Appendix D of The Metafontbook] 		 66 
 
Graphics
Animating Fourier series decomposition of a character with LuaTeX and MPLIB   (doi) 
  Maxime Chupin      [Intermediate Plus — building an animation of a character's outline with Lua(TeX) and MetaPost] 		 67-71 
 
Resources
Working remotely from an island: arara and other tools   (doi) 
  Island of TeX      [Intermediate Plus — build tool arara, font finder albatross, texdoc online] 		 72-73 
 
Software & Tools
LuaMetaTeX programming features   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — advances and extensions in TeX programming in the lmtx engine] 		 74-80 
UTF-8 installations of CWEB   (doi) 
  Igor Liferenko      [Advanced — changing cweave and ctangle to read/write the Unicode BMP] 		 81-82 
 
Reviews
Book review: Learning LaTeX, Second Edition, by David F. Griffiths and Desmond J. Higham   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Reports and notices — learning LaTeX by example, updated]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. 		 83 
 
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2020–1/2021   84-85 
Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 2020/3–4   85 
 
Cartoon
Comic: font or dog breed? 
  John Atkinson  		 85 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2020–April 2021] 		 86-88 
 
TUG Business
TUG 2021 election report   (doi) 
  TUG Elections committee  		 88-91 
Spending MacTeX funds   (doi) 
  Richard Koch  		 92 
TUG financial statements for 2020   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)  		 93 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   94-95 
 
News
Calendar   96 
TUGboat 42:1, 2021 (issue 130)   [generated 2025-10-15]
TUG home page; join TUG/renew membership; webmaster; facebook; x; bluesky; mastodon.