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Complete issue 47:1 as one pdf (31mb)
Front cover
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Inside front cover
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Contents ordered by difficulty
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Title page
1
Editorial information
2
TUG Business
Institutional members
2
General Delivery
From the president
(doi)
Arthur Rosendahl
[Introductory — Claude's Cycles, Rubik's Cubes, and sharing]
3
Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Introductory — typography and TeX news]
Bart Childs, 1938–2025;
Lecture: “The Shape of Letters: From Leonardo da Vinci to Donald Knuth”;
Orbis Typographicus, by Hermann Zapf;
Fonts and a mysterious symbol;
Accessibility;
TUG meeting returns to North America
4-6
Frank Mittelbach has received an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University
(doi)
Petr Sojka (orcid)
[Introductory — recognizing Mittelbach's contributions to document and software engineering]
Erratum: in the printed journal, f-ligatures such as “ff” appear as empty squares (tofu).
7-15
James Mosley (1935–2025) and French typography
(doi)
Jacques André
16-17
GuIT meeting, Pisa 2025: A visit by Doris and Erik
(doi)
Doris Behrendt, Erik Nijenhuis
[Introductory — TeXnical summary of talks]
17-21
Multilingual Document Processing
HarfBuzz: The quest for universal text shaping
(doi)
Behdad Esfahbod
[Intermediate — the evolution of digital text shaping for complex scripts: HarfBuzz, TeX, and Unicode]
22-27
Resources
CTAN 2025: Architecture, operation, team and future
(doi)
Erik Braun
[Intermediate — current state of the central infrastructure of the TeX world]
28-33
Philology
The use of rv and w in old Polish printed works
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień (orcid)
[Intermediate — use of `w' vs. `rv' in early printed Polish works]
34-37
Tutorials
The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Making life easier on Q&A sites
(doi)
Carla Maggi
[Intermediate — code copying, chat features, notifications, other tips for tex.stackexchange.com and topanswers.xyz]
38-42
Literate Programming
You (S)wove? Well, (S)tangle now!
(doi)
Vincent Goulet (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — combining weave and tangle for maintaining literate R scientific documents]
43-47
Humanities
manycolposter: Minuscule minutes' text on DIN A0
(doi)
Stephan Kurz (orcid)
[Intermediate — printing large texts in a 2–6pt font size using 32 columns]
Erratum: on the printed contents by difficulty, the author was incorrectly attributed.
48-51
Accessibility
Towards making more accessible course materials with LaTeX using Pandoc
(doi)
Matthew D. Hanson (orcid)
[Intermediate — use of Pandoc for practical, if imperfect, remediation of LaTeX documents]
52-56
LaTeX
Composing equations with eqnlines
(doi)
Niklas Beisert (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — significantly extending amsmath for both single- and multi-line equations]
57-63
ltx-talk: A class for accessible presentations
(doi)
Joseph Wright
64-66
Moloch: A minimalist, feature-rich Beamer theme
(doi)
Johan Larsson (orcid), samcarter
[Intermediate — updating the Metropolis theme; generating PDF and HTML from a single source via Quarto]
67-74
A LaTeX package for the Aspen security protocol notation and BAN logic
(doi)
Anders Andersen (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — an expressive and consistent notation for presenting security protocols]
75-80
Electronic Documents
Publishing LaTeX documents on the web using TeX4ht and GitHub Actions
(doi)
Michal Hoftich
[Intermediate Plus — TeX4ht templates for books, static web sites, and presentations]
81-88
Mathematical notation in REDCap online data collection instruments
(doi)
Travis Stenborg (orcid)
[Intermediate — inserting math from LaTeX in online surveys via PDF to SVG]
89-90
Software & Tools
From footage to film: Recording and editing the Czech premiere of Fantasia Apocalyptica
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný, Petr Sojka (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — processing steps from raw audio and video to the final master, mostly using free and open source tools]
91-99
Graphics
L-systems: Turtle graphics with MetaPost and Lua
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist
[Advanced — implementing space-filling curves: dragon curves, Sierpiński fractals, many more]
100-111
Software & Tools
Looseness processing costs
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — examining \looseness time and memory costs]
112-113
Graphics
Nodes and other neat old features
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — traditional and Lua(Meta)TeX memory layouts and processing]
114-118
Methods
Baseline grid typesetting with plain TeX
(doi)
Udo Wermuth
[Advanced — practical macros to help grid typesetting of plain TeX documents, including math, insertions, etc.]
119-134
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2025–March 2026]
135-136
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 4/2025–1/2026
137-138
Zpravodaj: issue 2025/1–4
139
La Lettre GUTenberg: issues 56–57 (2025–2026)
140
TUG Business
TUG financial statements for 2025
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
141
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services
142
TUG patron: TeXFolio
143
Cartoon
Comics: Parenthetically speaking; periodic table of elephants
John Atkinson
143
News
Calendar
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