Complete issue 38:2 as one pdf (19mb)  Front cover   c1  Inside front cover   c2  Contents ordered by difficulty   c3  Title page 
    Errata: should be 38th annual conference, not 37th.  109    TUG 2017 TUG 2017 conference information 
    organizers, sponsors, participants, program  110-111  TUG 2017 conference program   112-113  TUG@BachoTeX 2017 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Reports and notices — conference report, photos]  114-115    General Delivery Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska 
  Janusz Nowacki      [Introductory — a few words about and samples of the work by this superlative artist]  116-117  Released sounds 
  Maciej Rychły      [Introductory — paintings, music, stories]  118-124  The state of TeX 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Introductory — address at the conference of the incoming TUG President]  125    Futures Children of TeX 
  Hans Hagen      [Introductory — premises, predilections, predictions for TeX, with reference to many books]  126-140  MFLua 0.8 —Prologue 
  Luigi Scarso      [Introductory — philosophical reflections on society and the TeX software family]  141-144    Survey Off topic (completely): Many faces (and types) of beer 
  Michał Gasewicz      [Introductory — notes on varieties at the TUG@BachoTeX 2017 beer tasting]  145-146  History of accidentals in music 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Advanced — usage and typesetting of sharps, flats, etc., from ancient to modern music]  147-156    Methods Bookbinding workshop: Making a portfolio 
  Willi Egger      [Introductory — instructions for constructing an art folio, with diagrams]  157-158  Debugging LaTeX files—Illegitimi non carborundum 
  Barbara Beeton      [Intermediate Plus — editing, tracing, diagnosing, testing, puzzling]  159-164    Typography Revealing semantics using subtle typography and punctuation 
  Kumaran Sathasivam, S.K. Venkatesan, Yakov Chandy      [Introductory — punctuation history, redundancies, ambiguities, and resolutions]  165-170  To justify or not to justify? Why bad typography may be harmful for your readers 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid), Leyla Akhmadeeva      [Intermediate — experimental results of slower reading of \sloppy text than \raggedright]  171-172    Software & Tools Making ltxsparklines: The journey of a CTAN contributor into the world of CRAN 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Intermediate — an R package to support Tufte sparklines (word-sized graphics) in LaTeX]  173-174    Education TeX in Schools? Just Say Yes: The use of TeX at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk Univ. 
  Petr Sojka (orcid), Vít Starý Novotný      [Intermediate — historical and current use at a large university in the Czech Republic]  175-184    Graphics Implementing bioinformatics algorithms in TeX—the Gotoh package, a case study 
  Takuto Asakura      [Intermediate — a sequence alignment algorithm in primitive TeX, optionally with texshade]  185-187    Software & Tools updmap and fmtutil—past and future changes (or: cleaning up the mess) 
  Norbert Preining      [Intermediate Plus — new usage, with new per-tree configuration and persisting across reinstallations]  188-192  TLaunch, the TeX Live Launcher for Windows 
  Siep Kroonenberg      [Intermediate — TeX Live configuration (editors, viewers, …) in a multi-user Windows installation]  193-196  Xdvipsk: Dvips ready for OpenType fonts and more image formats 
  Sigitas Tolušis, Arūnas Povilaitis, Valentinas Kriaučiukas      [Advanced — extending Dvips to support more bitmap formats and OpenType fonts, in a LuaTeX workflow]  197-201    Fonts GUST e-foundry current font projects 
  Jerzy Ludwichowski      [Intermediate — brief overview of current GUST OpenType projects, mostly math-related]  202  Variable fonts 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — supporting variable fonts in LuaTeX and ConTeXt]  203-207  Parametric math symbol fonts 
  Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk, Piotr Pianowski      [Intermediate Plus — assembling OpenType math fonts from a text font and existing math symbols, with LuaTeX]  208-211    LaTeX LaTeX news, issue 27, April 2017 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate — ISO 8601 date format; TU encoding improvements; Hyphenation; Default language; Line spacing in parboxes]  212  LaTeX table columns with fixed widths 
  Frank Mittelbach (orcid)      [Intermediate Plus — a convenient interface for fixed-width columns in LaTeX tables]  213-214    Macros Using Markdown inside TeX documents 
  Vít Starý Novotný      [Intermediate — generic support for Markdown input inside TeX, via Lunamark and Lua]  214-217  GMS, the “General Meta-Scenarios”: A proper extension to the l3expan package of the expl3 bundle and language, two years later 
  Grzegorz Murzynowski      [Advanced — a method for avoiding any redundant and verbose code]  218-237    Bibliographies Typesetting bibliographies compliant with the ISO 690 standard in LaTeX 
  Dávid Lupták      [Intermediate Plus — the biblatex-iso690 package and comparison with existing approaches]  238-244  MlBibTeX now handles Unicode 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Intermediate Plus — per-bib file specification of encodings, and supporting Unicode]  245-248    Publishing TeX user habits versus publisher requirements 
  Lolita Tolenė      [Intermediate — study of programs and packages used in practice, and XML translation issues]  249-254  Ten years of work in Wiadomości Matematyczne—an adventure with LaTeX and Emacs hacking 
  Marcin Borkowski      [Intermediate — LaTeX and Emacs policies, workflow, and macros for the journal Wiadomości Matematyczne]  255-263    Hints & Tricks Production notes 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate — the rather helter-skelter TUGboat production process]  263    Abstracts Streszczenia      [Reports and notices — all abstracts, in Polish]  264-269  TUG@BachoTeX 2017 abstracts 
  Paulo Ney de Souza, Willi Egger, Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater, Zunbeltz Izaola, Anna Beata Kwiatkowska, Jerzy Ludwichowski, Mojca Miklavec, Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Arthur Rosendahl, Przemysław Scherwentke, Damien Thiriet, Andrzej Tomaszewski, Adam Twardoch, Ulrik Vieth   270-272  Die TeXnische Komödie 2/2017   273    Book Reviews Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing—The 20th century, Volume 2 (ch. 1–5) 
  Charles Bigelow      [Intermediate — second of three installments; chapter-by-chapter summaries for vol. 2 (1950–2000), ch. 1–5]
         Combined three-part review.  274-279  What Is Reading For? and Some Reflections on Reading and Writing, Culture and Nature, & Sorting Things Out by Robert Bringhurst 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Reports and notices — review of these two thought-provoking works by Bringhurst]  280-281  Paper: Paging Through History, by Mark Kurlansky 
  David Walden      [Reports and notices — review of this book on the intertwined history of writing, printing, and paper]  282-283    Hints & Tricks The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–July 2017]  284-285    Cartoon Word on the street 
  John Atkinson   285    News Calendar   286    Advertisements TeX consulting and production services   287-288    TUG Business Institutional members   288