The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 45:1, 2024
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Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.
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| Complete issue 45:1 as one pdf (15mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
(doi)
Arthur Rosendahl [Introductory — What's in a TeX?] |
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| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news] Changing of the guard: Robin Laakso retiring as TUG Executive Director; Errata: TUGboat 44:2; Errata: TUGboat 44:3; The (effective) end of comp.text.tex; |
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| Bibliography of Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024)
(doi)
Nelson Beebe [Introductory — with notes on Pascal, TeX, and more] |
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| Typography | |
| Face/Interface 2023 conference: Global type design and human-computer interaction
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Introductory — report on this two-day conference at Stanford on non-Latin scripts] |
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| Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Dashing it off III (em rules reprise); Bookshelves; Afterthought] |
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| Fonts | |
| Variable fonts in LuaTeX, with an introduction to two new fonts: Junicode VF
(doi)
Peter S. Baker [Intermediate — restoring optical scaling to digital fonts, with precise control along multiple design axes] |
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| dynMath: A PostScript Type 3-based LaTeX package to support extensible mathematical symbols
(doi)
Abdelouahad Bayar (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — extensible parentheses, braces, etc., while preserving the original design] |
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| Tracing bitmap fonts in LMTX
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate Plus — from high-resolution bitmaps to Type 3, Type 1 and OpenType, through MetaPost] |
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| Philology | |
| Basic Latin brevigraphs listed in Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi—Progress report
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień (orcid) [Advanced — variations of printed glyphs in some early Polish printing] |
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| Towards an inventory of old print characters: Ungler's Rubricella, a case study—Errata
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień (orcid) [Advanced — some small errata for the prior article, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-3/tb138bien-rubricella.pdf] |
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| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Tcolorchat!
(doi)
Carla Maggi [Intermediate — step-by-step use of tcolorbox to generate a colored chat transcript] |
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| Accessibility | |
| Enhancing LaTeX to automatically produce tagged and accessible PDF
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Ulrike Fischer (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — background, status, prospects for generating tagged PDF from LaTeX] |
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| LaTeX | |
| Preparing Horizon Europe proposals in LaTeX with heria
(doi)
Tristan Miller (orcid) [Intermediate — a new class for these complex grant proposals, with motivations, design decisions, real-world use] |
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| Specifying and populating documents in YAML with lua-placeholders in LaTeX
(doi)
Erik Nijenhuis [Advanced — invoice template implementation with the GTK application GinVoice] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Building a modern editing environment on Windows around GNU Emacs and AUCTeX
(doi)
Arash Esbati [Intermediate Plus — step-by-step installation of MSYS2, Emacs, and AUCTeX, with practical configuration and usage examples] |
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| Wikipedia to LaTeX, PDF, EPUB and ODT
(doi)
Dirk Hünniger [Intermediate — many updates to the mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org service and package] |
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| Fast regression testing of TeX packages: Multiprocessing and batching
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný, Marei Peischl [Intermediate Plus — batch limiting and splitting, developer vs. maintainer use] |
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| Illustrating finite automata with Grail+ and TikZ
(doi)
Alastair May, Taylor J. Smith (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — automatic layout of finite automata with the Grail+ Visualizer] |
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| Including PDF files
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — optimizing sharing of font instances] |
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| Macros | |
| Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨number⟩?
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨number⟩] |
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| Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨dimen⟩?
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨dimen⟩] |
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| Graphics | |
| Visualizing the Mandelbrot set with MetaPost
(doi)
Max Günther [Intermediate — complex numbers in MetaPost, and implementing generation of the Mandelbrot set, with optimizations] |
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| Semi-automated TikZ directed acyclic graphs in R
(doi)
Travis Stenborg (orcid) [Intermediate — brief tutorial on using the causalDisco R package to generate DAGs] |
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| Nodes and edges with MetaPost: The MetaGraph environment
(doi)
Federico García De Castro [Advanced — general-purpose programming with data sets of nodes and edges] |
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| Euclidean geometry with tkz-elements and tkz-euclide
(doi)
Alain Matthes [Advanced — construction of precise geometric figures, using Lua for calculation] |
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| Unusual bitmaps
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate Plus — making vector graphics and plots from bitmaps with potrace] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| Signing PDF files
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — methods and representation of cryptographic signatures in PDF] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Computer Modern shape curiosities
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — differing design choices in different CM variants] |
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| Radical delimiters
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate — generalizing the extensibility of radicals] |
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| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2023–April 2024] |
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| Production notes
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — PDF inclusion/concatenation while preserving both internal and external links] |
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| Reviews | |
| Book reviews: Shift Happens, by Marcin Wichary
(doi)
Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry (orcid), Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Reports and notices — a monumental history of keyboards, with sample of the companion Gorton Perfected font] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 3–1/2024 | |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 51 (2023) | |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2023/3–4 | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2023
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) |
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| News & Announcements | |
| TeX conferences and lectures | |
| Cartoon | |
| Comic: Space typography
Randall Munroe |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |