TUGboat 42:1, 2021 (tb130) - TeX Users Group
2021-05-21
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Complete issue 42:1 as one pdf (26mb)
Front cover
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Inside front cover
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Contents ordered by difficulty
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Title page
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Editorial information
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TUG Business
Institutional members
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General Delivery
From the president
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Introductory — license usage on CTAN; dangers of non-commercial licensing]
3
Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
R.I.P. Bob Morris;
BaKoMa author has died;
J. W. Gibbs and why an annual lecture is named for him;
Jubilees to celebrate: Computers & Typesetting and 50 years of the ebook;
CTAN mirrors are now https;
A self-published LaTeX book and ebook
4-5
Hendrik Vervliet: 1923–2020
(doi)
Jacques André
[Introductory — memorial and summary of work of this noted scholar of typography]
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The TeX tuneup of 2021
(doi)
Donald Knuth
[Advanced — the 2021 updates to TeX, Metafont, vols. A–E, et al.]
7-10
TeX entomology in 2021
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Introductory — filtering the incoming bugs for DEK's 2021 tune-up]
10
Hyphenation exception log
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations; see ctan.org/pkg/hyphenex]
11
Year 2020 at GUTenberg
(doi)
Jérémy Just
[Introductory — association is preserved by vote, but the need for more cooperation remains]
12-13
Dreamboat
Lapses in TeX—a look backward
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Intermediate Plus — alternatives to past decisions that could have alleviated current problems]
13-17
Typography
Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn
[Introductory — Page numbering revisited; Type 1 (PostScript) fonts; Afterthought]
18-19
Interview with Amelia Hugill-Fontanel
(doi)
David Walden
[Introductory — discussion with the associate curator at RIT's Cary Graphic Arts Collection, cary.rit.edu]
20-33
LaTeX
The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Crazy Little Thing Called Glue
(doi)
Carla Maggi
[Intermediate — specifying and fixing spacing, horizontal and vertical; and floats]
34-39
Creating document commands: The good, the bad and the ugly
(doi)
Joseph Wright
[Intermediate — best practices for using \NewDocumentCommand from xparse]
40-41
\NewDocumentCommand versus \newcommand versus …
(doi)
Joseph Wright
[Intermediate Plus — extended comparison of the xparse \NewDocumentCommand to traditional alternatives]
41-43
Survey
Comparison of OpTeX with other formats: LaTeX and ConTeXt
(doi)
Petr Olšák
[Intermediate Plus — differing concepts, implementations, usage of three formats]
44-49
Fonts
GUST e-foundry font projects, closing report 2019–2020
(doi)
Jerzy Ludwichowski
[Intermediate — status of OpenType TeX Gyre fonts, including math, and new Algotype font production software]
50-51
The NewComputerModern font family
(doi)
Antonis Tsolomitis
[Intermediate — OpenType fonts greatly extending Latin Modern, with complete coverage of Unicode math (https://ctan.org/pkg/newcm)]
52-55
An attempt at creating font transitions
(doi)
S.K. Venkatesan
[Advanced — an example of mathematically interpolating between sans serif and serif fonts]
56-59
Scaled fonts and glyphs
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — engine extensions in lmtx for dynamic glyph scaling]
60-65
Some fonts with recent TeX support
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Introductory — terse showings of some fonts appearing on CTAN in the last year]
65
Macros
Improvements to the generalized mediation macros in The Metafontbook
(doi)
Hu Yajie
[Advanced — meeting the generalized mediation macro challenge in Appendix D of The Metafontbook]
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Graphics
Animating Fourier series decomposition of a character with LuaTeX and MPLIB
(doi)
Maxime Chupin
[Intermediate Plus — building an animation of a character's outline with Lua(TeX) and MetaPost]
67-71
Resources
Working remotely from an island: arara and other tools
(doi)
Island of TeX
[Intermediate Plus — build tool arara, font finder albatross, texdoc online]
72-73
Software & Tools
LuaMetaTeX programming features
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — advances and extensions in TeX programming in the lmtx engine]
74-80
UTF-8 installations of CWEB
(doi)
Igor Liferenko
[Advanced — changing cweave and ctangle to read/write the Unicode BMP]
81-82
Reviews
Book review: Learning LaTeX, Second Edition, by David F. Griffiths and Desmond J. Higham
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Reports and notices — learning LaTeX by example, updated]
See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
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Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2020–1/2021
84-85
Zpravodaj: Contents of issue 2020/3–4
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Cartoon
Comic: font or dog breed?
John Atkinson
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Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2020–April 2021]
86-88
TUG Business
TUG 2021 election report
(doi)
TUG Elections committee
88-91
Spending MacTeX funds
(doi)
Richard Koch
92
TUG financial statements for 2020
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
93
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services
94-95
News
Calendar
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