TUGboat 41:3, 2020 (tb129) - TeX Users Group
2020-11-16
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Complete issue 41:3 as one pdf (17mb)
Front cover
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Inside front cover
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Contents ordered by difficulty
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Title page
257
Editorial information
258
TUG Business
Institutional members
258
General Delivery
From the president
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Introductory — the paradox of early adoption; moving free software forward]
259
Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
Passings: Janusz Nowacki, Ed Benguiat, Ron Graham;
A new Unicode-specific area in CTAN;
Fonts, fonts, fonts;
Erratum: “The road to Noto”, Steven Matteson (TUGboat 41:2, 145–154);
Learning LaTeX;
Graphical history in action;
Followup to “old news”;
Making TUGboat more accessible
260-262
How TeX changed my life
(doi)
Michael Barr
[Introductory — math writing, typing, and typesetting]
263-264
Typography
Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn
[Introductory — To print or not to print; Centering (again); New device driver for old format; What's in a name]
265-268
Fonts
Eye charts in focus: The magic of optotypes
(doi)
Lorrie Frear
[Intermediate — history and design of the optotypes used on eye charts]
269-274
Multilingual Document Processing
The Non-Latin scripts & typography
(doi)
Kamal Mansour
[Intermediate — examples of the wide range of typesetting and font requirements beyond Latin]
275-280
Tutorials
Using DocStrip for multiple document variants
(doi)
Matthew Leingang
[Intermediate — step-by-step example of homework assignments with questions, solutions, and more]
281-285
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 32, October 2020
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team
[Intermediate — xparse in the format; hook management system; changes in graphics, tools, amsmath, babel]
286-291
LaTeX Tagged PDF—A blueprint for a large project
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Chris Rowley
[Intermediate Plus — background and task summary of an extended feasibility study on the LaTeX web site]
Feasibility study.
292-298
Functions and expl3
(doi)
Enrico Gregorio
[Advanced — an introduction to LaTeX3 programming with functions and variables]
299-307
bib2gls: selection, cross-references and locations
(doi)
Nicola Talbot
[Intermediate Plus — selecting, grouping, referencing glossary items with LaTeX's index facilities]
308-317
Making Markdown into a microwave meal
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný
[Intermediate Plus — freezing Markdown, Minted, and BibLaTeX output for single-run processing]
318-320
Software & Tools
User-defined Type 3 fonts in LuaTeX
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — constructing a font on the fly that can reference images, other fonts, graphics]
320-323
Graphics
Data display, plots and graphs
(doi)
Peter Wilson
[Intermediate — simple example of using tables, scatter plots, line graphs, histograms]
324-326
Software & Tools
Short report on the state of LuaTeX, 2020
(doi)
Luigi Scarso
[Intermediate — development status and comparison of LuaTeX and its relatives: LuaHBTeX, LuaJITTeX and LuaJITHBTeX]
327-328
Distinguishing 8-bit characters and Japanese characters in (u)pTeX
(doi)
Hironori Kitagawa
[Advanced — analysis and solutions for differing interpretations of byte sequences]
329-334
Keyword scanning
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — peculiarities of parsing keywords, catcodes, and performance]
335-337
Representation of macro parameters
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — considers making unused arguments more efficient and tracing output more consistent]
337-340
TeXdoc online—a web interface for serving TeX documentation
(doi)
Island of TeX
[Intermediate Plus — HTTP API for texdoc and CTAN topics]
341-342
MMTeX: Creating a minimal and modern TeX distribution for GNU/Linux
(doi)
Michal Vlasák
[Intermediate Plus — a small TeX distribution with LuaTeX and OpTeX that integrates easily on modern systems]
343-345
UTF-8 installations of TeX
(doi)
Igor Liferenko
[Advanced — changing TeX's encoding to support reading/writing Unicode]
346-347
Macros
OpTeX—A new generation of Plain TeX
(doi)
Petr Olšák
[Intermediate Plus — modern LuaTeX format with full Unicode support]
348-354
Reviews
Book reviews: Robert Granjon, letter-cutter, and Granjon's Flowers, by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
(doi)
Charles Bigelow
[Reports and notices — detailed review of these two books from Oak Knoll Press on 17th century type designer Robert Granjon]
See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
355-357
Book review: Glisterings, by Peter Wilson
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Reports and notices — review of this volume of collected columns from TUGboat, published by TUG]
358-359
Historical review of TeX3
(doi)
Peter Flynn
[Introductory — a 1991 review of TeX, written for those experienced in other typesetting systems]
360-367
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2020]
368
TUG Business
TUG 2021 election
(doi)
TUG Elections committee
See the TUG election page for all information.
369
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TeX consulting and production services
370-371
News
Calendar
372
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