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TUGboat 46:2, 2025

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Complete issue 46:2 as one pdf (25mb) 
    Videos for all talks.
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   169 
 
TUG 2025
TUG 2025 conference information   170 
TUG 2025 conference program   171 
TUG 2025 conference photos   172-174 
TUG meets Trivandrum yet again: 2025   (doi) 
  Julin Shaji (orcid
 175-180 
Bhattathiri's calligraphy demonstration: A report   (doi) 
  KV Rajeesh      [Reports and notices — summary of Narayana Bhattathiri's Malayalam calligraphy demonstration]
 181 
TUG 2025: A personal retrospective   (doi) 
  KV Rajeesh 
 182-185 
TUG 2025 Annual General Meeting notes   (doi) 
  Jim Hefferon 
 186 
 
Publishing
Challenges faced by the publishing industry   (doi) 
  Veeraraghavan Balasubramanian      [Intermediate — overview of difficulties and solutions in today's technical publishing]
 187-189 
A system for editorial comments   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid     [Intermediate — layered and colored marginalia for author/editor communication]
 189-194 
 
Electronic Documents
Digital archiving of Malayalam content   (doi) 
  CV Radhakrishnan (orcid     [Intermediate Plus — structuring visible PDF output for creation of TEI XML and then HTML, for Indic texts]
 195-205 
How we use LaTeX in the CrypTool project   (doi) 
  Doris Behrendt, Bernd Busse      [Advanced — math rendering in browsers in general, and using KaTeX in particular]
 206-212 
 
Education
What to teach about (La)TeX   (doi) 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Intermediate — introducing LaTeX to several different audiences: commonalities and differences]
 213-219 
 
Multilingual Document Processing
How we use XeLaTeX at our ashram to publish and print multilingual books and documents   (doi) 
  Vrajarāja Govinda (S. Vinay)      [Intermediate — books, weekly and monthly schedules, and more in Devanāgarī, Kannada and Roman scripts]
 220-227 
 
Bibliographies
Beastie: A new (and the old) bibliography processor   (doi) 
  Norman Gray (orcid     [Intermediate Plus — a new Scheme bibliography processor, and discussion of longstanding BibTeX issues with ways forward]
 228-234 
 
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 41, June 2025   (doi) 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate — configurable output routine; replace for legacy marks; news from the Tagged PDF project; changes and fixes in the kernel, amsmath, graphics, tools, l3 layer, documentation]
 235-243 
 
Accessibility
News from the LaTeX Tagged PDF project: 2025   (doi) 
  Ulrike Fischer (orcid), Frank Mittelbach (orcid     [Intermediate Plus — show-pdf-tags tool, ltx-talk for presentations, progress in tagging math]
 244-247 
PDF tagging of highly-structured information; case study: bibliographies, using BibLaTeX   (doi) 
  Ross Moore (orcid     [Advanced — representing bibliography semantics for accessibility, in detail]
 248-257 
Implementing tagged and accessible PDF in Neptune   (doi) 
  Rahul Krishnan S, Apu V, Rishikesan Nair T, CV Rajagopal      [Advanced — injecting necessary tags and handling validation errors, using tagpdf Phase I]
 258-261 
 
Fonts
An OpenType font with built-in TeX syntax highlighting   (doi) 
  KV Rajeesh, CV Radhakrishnan (orcid     [Intermediate Plus — COLRv1 and COLRv0 fonts for highlighting, usable in browers, LuaHBTeX, etc.]
 262-266 
 
Humanities
Linguistics with LinguisTiX   (doi) 
  Niranjan      [Intermediate Plus — a suite of packages for customizable linguistics output]
 267-270 
 
Software & Tools
Best-effort LaTeX parsing for interactive editing   (doi) 
  Mathias Jakobsen (orcid     [Intermediate Plus — supporting contextual autocomplete and a visual editor with a Lezer-built parser]
 270-273 
Aesthetics of XML documents with TeX and tagged PDF enabled   (doi) 
  Rishikesan Nair T, CV Rajagopal, Apu V      [Intermediate — proofing software allowing author interaction on typesetting results]
 274-276 
 
Methods
Xerdi's Documentation Project: Intertwined documents   (doi) 
  Erik Nijenhuis      [Advanced — engineering of related legal and technical documents]
 277-284 
 
Philology
Alphabetic vs. logo-syllabic script: A contradiction between form and content   (doi) 
  S.K. Venkatesan      [Advanced — semiotics of two writing methodologies, with the Linear Elamite and Indus Valley scripts as examples]
 285-288 
 
Abstracts
TUG 2025 abstracts   (doi) 
  Doris Behrendt, Erik Braun, Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Vaishnavi Murthy Kodipady Yerkadithaya, Martin J. Osborne, Salil B, Niranjan, Saravanan M, Mukesh Subramaniam, Rob Schrauwen, Vít Starý Novotný 
 289-291 
Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 2/2025   291-292 
La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 55 (2025)   292 
ConTeXt Group Journal 2022–2024: 16th–18th meetings   293-295 
 
Reviews
Book review: Form & Number: A History of Mathematical Beauty, by Alan J. Cain   (doi) 
  Viktor Blåsjö 
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 296-298 
 
General Delivery
Interview with Alan J. Cain   (doi) 
  Jim Hefferon 
 299-305 
 
Conference Notes
A report from BachoTeX 2025   (doi) 
  Mikael P. Sundqvist 
 306-309 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid     [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–August 2025]
 310-311 
 
TUG Business
TUG bursary committee report for 2025   (doi) 
  Jim Hefferon 
 312 
Institutional members   312 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   313-314 
TUG patron and TUG 2025 host: TeXFolio (STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd)   314 
TUG 2025 sponsors: Google; Overleaf; Xerdi   315 
 
News
Calendar   316 

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