The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 45:3, 2024
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| Complete issue 45:3 as one pdf (14mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| 2025 TeX Users Group election
(doi)
TUG Elections committee Notice and candidate form for the 2025 TUG election. |
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| General Delivery | |
| Editorial comments
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Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news] COVID persists; |
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| Resources | |
| Usenet and the future of comp.text.tex
(doi)
Rayner Lucas, Tristan Miller, Marco Moock [Introductory — Usenet and c.t.t history and access methods without Google] |
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| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn [Introductory — TUG logo; `Sitting by Nellie'; Afterthought (research on text editor usage)] |
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| Humanities | |
| LaTeX in the Digital Humanities
(doi)
Sarah Lang [Intermediate — analysis of usage and practical use cases of LaTeX in the humanities] |
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| Hyphenation | |
| Enhancing TeX hyphenation rules for Portuguese
(doi)
Leonardo Araujo, Aline Benevides [Intermediate — quantitative analysis of patterns for improving Portuguese hyphenation] |
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| Philology | |
| Identifying glyphs in some 16th century fonts: Hochfeder's font no. 2, a case study
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień [Advanced — discussion of encoding selected Latin brevigraphs in a 16th century font by Kaspar Hochfeder] |
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| Fonts | |
| My website exploring language support and more in libre TrueType and OpenType fonts: typosetting.co.uk
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Ken Moffat [Intermediate — extensive listing of free fonts, including available styles, small caps, CJK information, etc.] |
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| (Ab)use of ligatures and other font features
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Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — word and other replacements via ligatures in OpenType and traditional TeX fonts] |
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| Correcting for italic corrections
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Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Intermediate — on italic corrections in non-italic fonts] |
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| Graphics | |
| Diagrams with TikZ: A practical example
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Uwe Ziegenhagen [Intermediate — making simple block diagrams and choosing node connectors, by example] |
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| Diagrams with TikZ: A practical example, part II
(doi)
Uwe Ziegenhagen [Intermediate — refining calculations and TikZ node connections] |
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| Asemic writing using MetaFun in ConTeXt
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Keith McKay [Intermediate Plus — introduction to and generating asemic writing—writing without meaning] |
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| LaTeX | |
| Easy periodic tables of elements with pgf-PeriodicTable
(doi)
Hugo Gomes [Intermediate Plus — generating the periodic table, with many languages, data values, and customizations supported] |
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| Integrating Git information into LaTeX documents: gitinfo-lua
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Erik Nijenhuis [Intermediate Plus — the gitinfo-lua package for inserting versions, authors, changelogs, etc.] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| A color concept for HiTeX
(doi)
Martin Ruckert [Advanced — defining a new API for color in HINT files on modern displays] |
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| Twin demerits
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist [Advanced — considering duplicate words at beginnings and ends of lines in paragraph breaking] |
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| SQLTeX
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Oscar van Eijk [Intermediate Plus — a preprocessor in Perl to support SQL database access from LaTeX] |
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| Styling Stata graphics with LaTeX
(doi)
Travis Stenborg [Intermediate Plus — harmonizing fonts and graphics in Stata output, using SVG, Inkscape, TikZ] |
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| Primo from a developer's perspective
(doi)
Jan Vaněk, Hàn Thế Thành [Advanced — a cloud-based authoring, submission, and proofing tool with collaborative editing] |
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| GNU Emacs and AUCTeX on Windows and macOS for the rest of us
(doi)
Vincent Goulet [Intermediate — the Emacs Modified for Windows/macOS projects, all-in-one distributions with easy installation] |
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| ConTeXt | |
| Making PDF text unreadable
(doi)
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — making the underlying text in PDFs opaque to extraction] |
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| Methods | |
| \topmark in output routines without \shipout
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Udo Wermuth [Advanced — creating a do-nothing output routine that does not lose \topmark] |
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| About TeX's error messages
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — detailed analysis of TeX's errors with respect to human–computer interaction research] |
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| Reviews | |
| Book review: Text and Math Into LaTeX, sixth edition, by George Grätzer
(doi)
Jim Hefferon See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
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| Book review: LaTeX Cookbook, second edition, by Stefan Kottwitz
(doi)
Uwe Ziegenhagen |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Production notes: PDFs and urls
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate — extracting and checking urls in PDF files] |
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| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–October 2024] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: issue 59 (2024) | |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 53 (2024) | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 3/2024 | |
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