The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 39:3, 2018
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| Complete issue 39:3 as one pdf (8.8mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Introductory — thoughts on (un)constrained funding] |
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| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Updated link for the IEEE Annals issue table of contents. Related material, including preprints for the TeX papers, is available from Dave Walden's TeX history page. |
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| TUGboat open-access survey results
TUG Board [Introductory — increasing open access to all but the current issue, with survey results] |
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| TeXConf 2018 in Japan
Norbert Preining [Reports and notices — report on lively conference in Sapporo] |
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| Typography | |
| The Cary Graphic Arts Collection
David Walden [Introductory — a brief overview of this remarkable printing, typography, and graphics collection] |
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| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Monospace that fits; Centering (reprise); Afterthought] |
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| Tutorials | |
| A beginner's guide to file encoding and TeXShop
Herbert Schulz, Richard Koch [Intermediate — introduction to file encodings, Unicode, and handling them in TeX(Shop)] |
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| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Formatting posts
Carla Maggi [Introductory — upvoting behavior, Markdown-based formatting and PDF-to-image conversion] |
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| Managing the paper trail of student projects: datatool and more
B. Tomas Johansson [Intermediate — step-by-step generation of typical student reports from .csv files] |
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| Fonts | |
| Interview with Kris Holmes
David Walden [Intermediate — in-depth discussion of calligraphy, font design, and more, with many illustrations] |
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| Science and history behind the design of Lucida
Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes [Intermediate — historical precedents, principles of reading, practical digital type design] |
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| TeX Gyre text fonts revisited
Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Pianowski, Piotr Strzelczyk [Intermediate Plus — incorporating math and symbol glyphs into text fonts, and OpenType accent positioning] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| HINT: Reflowing TeX output
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate Plus — postponing TeX page rendering to a separate device, e.g., tablet] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Axessibility: Creating PDF documents with accessible formulae
D. Ahmetovic, T. Armano, C. Bernareggi, M. Berra, A. Capietto, Sandro Coriasco, N. Murru, A. Ruighi [Intermediate Plus — automatically making readable math formulae] |
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| Improving the representation and conversion of mathematical formulae by considering the textual context
Moritz Schubotz, André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Norman Meuschke, Howard S. Cohl, Bela Gipp [Intermediate Plus — gold standard benchmark and metrics to evaluate (La)TeX to MathML tools] |
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| Graphics | |
| Dednat6: An extensible (semi-)preprocessor for LuaLaTeX that understands diagrams in ASCII art
Eduardo Ochs [Intermediate Plus — a Forth-based language for 2D diagrams implemented in Lua] |
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| LaTeX | |
| Managing forlorn paragraph lines (a.k.a. widows and orphans) in LaTeX
Frank Mittelbach (orcid) [Intermediate — finding all widows and orphans, and discussion of possible fixes] |
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| The widows-and-orphans package
Frank Mittelbach (orcid) [Advanced — documented implementation of the widows-and-orphans package in expl3] |
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| The dashundergaps package
Frank Mittelbach (orcid) [Intermediate Plus — replacing material with underlines, with expl3 implementation] |
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| Bibliographies | |
| State secrets in bibliography-style hacking
Karl Berry (orcid), Oren Patashnik [Advanced — inserting a custom separator between fields in bibliography entries] The ieeelike.bst example mentioned in the article. |
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| Methods | |
| Experiments with \parfillskip
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — analysis of \parfillskip settings, aiming to minimize too-short or too-long last lines] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry (orcid) [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2018] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2018 | |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2019 election
TUG Elections committee |
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| News | |
| Calendar | |