The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 41:2, 2020
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| Complete issue 41:2 as one pdf (22mb)
Videos for all talks. |
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| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2020 | |
| TUG 2020 conference information
organizers, sponsors, program |
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| Random musings on TUG2020 online
(doi)
Barbara Beeton |
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| Observations on the TeX Users Group's 41st Annual Conference—TUG 2020 in the COVID-19 era
(doi)
David Walden |
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| TUG 2020: A report and future recommendations
(doi)
Paulo Ney de Souza |
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| TeX conferences and General Meetings, this year and next
(doi)
Jonathan Fine |
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| Interview with Javier Bezos
(doi)
Paulo Ney de Souza [Reports and notices — live interview with Javier Bezos, maintainer of Babel and other packages] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| The road to Noto
(doi)
Steven Matteson [Intermediate — from the Rosetta Stone, through polyglot bibles and Droid, to Noto] |
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| Typographical explorations in two unicase alphabets
(doi)
Jennifer Claudio [Introductory — consideration of written emotion in scripts that do not distinguish case] |
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| 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] |
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| Humanities | |
| Noticing history—a personal view
(doi)
David Walden [Intermediate — how practitioners can help preserve and document primary sources and other computing history] |
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| TeX in church: A typographical adventure
(doi)
Paulo Cereda [Intermediate — creating songsheets and booklets with LilyPond and LuaTeX] |
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| Education | |
| Empowerment and teaching LaTeX
(doi)
Astrid Schmölzer, Sarah Lang (orcid) [Introductory — four quick lessons for those interested in empowering new users, especially in the humanities] |
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| Didactical reduction versus references: How to better teach LaTeX
(doi)
Sarah Lang (orcid) [Intermediate — tech privilege, tacit knowledge, and working between beginner and mastery] |
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| 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] |
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| Using Overleaf for collaborative projects: First impressions and lessons learned
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [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. |
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| The Island of TeX: Developing abroad, your next destination
(doi)
Island of TeX [Intermediate — overview of development projects at https://gitlab.com/islandoftex] |
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| The design concept for llmk—Light LaTeX Make
(doi)
Takuto Asakura [Intermediate — simple, explicit workflow specification via TOML] |
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| 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] |
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| LaTeX | |
| A first set of LaTeX packages
(doi)
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — one recommended package per general area, covering most of what beginners need] |
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| Presenting our LaTeX workshop online
(doi)
Susan DeMeritt, Cheryl Ponchin [Introductory — preparation of videos and syllabus for the TUG2020 workshop] |
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| 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] |
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| A review of learnlatex.org
(doi)
Jennifer Claudio [Intermediate — examination of this new web site for guiding creation of first documents] |
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| Quo vadis LaTeX(3) Team—A look back and at the upcoming years
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach (orcid), LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate Plus — the last 30 years, and upcoming hook management, tagged PDF, and more] |
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| 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] |
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| MiniLaTeX: A subset of LaTeX for the Web
(doi)
James Carlson [Advanced — no-setup LaTeX rendered on the fly to HTML in any browser] |
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| 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] |
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| LaTeX technologies at work—aesthetically beautiful PDFs on the fly from XML input: XML Page Composition (XPC) micro-service in the cloud
(doi)
Rishikesan Nair T, Aravind Rajendran, CV Rajagopal, CV Radhakrishnan (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — automated PDF creation and quality control from XML sources] |
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| Tagging with LaTeX— Part 1: Author considerations
(doi)
Ross Moore (orcid) [Advanced — real-world examples of LaTeX source to archive accessible PDF] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2020 abstracts
(doi)
Jonathan Fine, Amelia Hugill-Fontanel, Paul Gessler, Patrick Ion, Marcel Krüger, John MacFarlane, Ross Moore (orcid), Eric Mc Sween, Norbert Preining, Thomas Price, Brandon Rhodes, samcarter, Michael Sharpe, Paulo Ney de Souza Videos for all talks. |
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| Die TeXnische Komödie 2–3/2020 | |
| Zpravodaj 2020/1–2 | |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–August 2020] |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2021 election
(doi)
TUG Elections committee |
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| Institutional members | |
| Advertisements | |
| TUG 2020 sponsors | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |