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