The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 47:1, 2026
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| Complete issue 47:1 as one pdf (31mb) | |
| 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 — Claude's Cycles, Rubik's Cubes, and sharing] |
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| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news] |
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| Frank Mittelbach has received an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University
(doi)
Petr Sojka (orcid) [Introductory — recognizing Mittelbach's contributions to document and software engineering] |
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| James Mosley (1935–2025) and French typography
(doi)
Jacques André |
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| GuIT meeting, Pisa 2025: A visit by Doris and Erik
(doi)
Doris Behrendt, Erik Nijenhuis [Introductory — TeXnical summary of talks] |
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| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| HarfBuzz: The quest for universal text shaping
(doi)
Behdad Esfahbod [Intermediate — the evolution of digital text shaping for complex scripts: HarfBuzz, TeX, and Unicode] |
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| Resources | |
| CTAN 2025: Architecture, operation, team and future
(doi)
Erik Braun [Intermediate — current state of the central infrastructure of the TeX world] |
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| Philology | |
| The use of rv and w in old Polish printed works
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień (orcid) [Intermediate — use of `w' vs. `rv' in early printed Polish works] |
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| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Making life easier on Q&A sites
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Carla Maggi [Intermediate — code copying, chat features, notifications, other tips for tex.stackexchange.com and topanswers.xyz] |
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| Literate Programming | |
| You (S)wove? Well, (S)tangle now!
(doi)
Vincent Goulet (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — combining weave and tangle for maintaining literate R scientific documents] |
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| Humanities | |
| manycolposter: Minuscule minutes' text on DIN A0
(doi)
Stephan Kurz (orcid) [Intermediate — printing large texts in a 2–6pt font size using 32 columns] Erratum: on the printed contents by difficulty, the author was incorrectly attributed. |
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| Accessibility | |
| Towards making more accessible course materials with LaTeX using Pandoc
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Matthew D. Hanson (orcid) [Intermediate — use of Pandoc for practical, if imperfect, remediation of LaTeX documents] |
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| LaTeX | |
| Composing equations with eqnlines
(doi)
Niklas Beisert (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — significantly extending amsmath for both single- and multi-line equations] |
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| ltx-talk: A class for accessible presentations
(doi)
Joseph Wright |
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| Moloch: A minimalist, feature-rich Beamer theme
(doi)
Johan Larsson (orcid), samcarter [Intermediate — updating the Metropolis theme; generating PDF and HTML from a single source via Quarto] |
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| A LaTeX package for the Aspen security protocol notation and BAN logic
(doi)
Anders Andersen (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — an expressive and consistent notation for presenting security protocols] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| Publishing LaTeX documents on the web using TeX4ht and GitHub Actions
(doi)
Michal Hoftich [Intermediate Plus — TeX4ht templates for books, static web sites, and presentations] |
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| Mathematical notation in REDCap online data collection instruments
(doi)
Travis Stenborg (orcid) [Intermediate — inserting math from LaTeX in online surveys via PDF to SVG] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| From footage to film: Recording and editing the Czech premiere of Fantasia Apocalyptica
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný, Petr Sojka (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — processing steps from raw audio and video to the final master, mostly using free and open source tools] |
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| Graphics | |
| L-systems: Turtle graphics with MetaPost and Lua
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Advanced — implementing space-filling curves: dragon curves, Sierpiński fractals, many more] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Looseness processing costs
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Hans Hagen [Advanced — examining \looseness time and memory costs] |
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| Graphics | |
| Nodes and other neat old features
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Advanced — traditional and Lua(Meta)TeX memory layouts and processing] |
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| Methods | |
| Baseline grid typesetting with plain TeX
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Udo Wermuth [Advanced — practical macros to help grid typesetting of plain TeX documents, including math, insertions, etc.] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2025–March 2026] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 4/2025–1/2026 | |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2025/1–4 | |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issues 56–57 (2025–2026) | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2025
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) |
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| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| TUG patron: TeXFolio | |
| Cartoon | |
| Comics: Parenthetically speaking; periodic table of elephants
John Atkinson |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |