TUGboat 44:1, 2023 (tb136) - TeX Users Group
2023-05-19
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Complete issue 44:1 as one pdf (68mb)
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
2
TUG Business
Institutional members
2
General Delivery
From the president
(doi)
Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Introductory — on Macsyma, Maxima, software longevity, and the TUG presidency]
3
Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Introductory — typography and TeX news, accessibility, and a warning]
Donald P. Story, 1946–2022;
Clarification: Interview with Boris Veytsman, TUGboat 43:2;
News from the TeX neighborhood;
Accessibility for (La)TeX;
Accessibility—Something completely different;
An afternoon at the Museum of Printing;
Arsenic and old books;
How many TeX documents?
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Typography
A conversation with type designer Matthew Carter
(doi)
Frank Romano
Video part 1, part 2, part 3.
9-20
Prehistory of digital fonts
(doi)
Jacques André
[Intermediate — extensive examination of the foundational research in digital typography, profusely illustrated]
21-57
Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn
[Introductory — Fast startup with LaTeX; Footnotes as never before or since; Afterthought: List spacing]
58-59
Humanities
An artist's journey on a TUGboat
(doi)
Tine Wilde (orcid)
[Intermediate — relationships between LaTeX, art (photography), and measurability]
60-63
Tutorials
The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: No more table nightmares with tabularray!
(doi)
Carla Maggi
[Intermediate — introduction to the unique features of the tabularray package for typesetting tables]
64-70
Electronic Documents
Metadata in journal publishing
(doi)
Joppe W. Bos (orcid), Kevin S. McCurley (orcid)
[Intermediate — specifying extensive metadata to maximize reuse]
71-76
LaTeX
LaTeX anniversaries—A look in two directions
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach (orcid)
[Intermediate — LaTeX history and outlook; excerpted from The LaTeX Companion, third edition]
77-86
An introduction to expl3
(doi)
Marei Peischl
[Intermediate Plus — step-by-step introduction to the modern LaTeX programming layer]
87-93
LuaCAS: Symbolic computation in LaTeX
(doi)
Timothy All, Evan Cochrane
[Intermediate Plus — pure Lua computer algebra system, integrated into LaTeX]
94-98
Attributes in Markdown
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný
[Intermediate Plus — using, coding, and styling attributes in Markdown in LaTeX]
99-101
Graphics
An introduction to automata design with TikZ's automata library
(doi)
Igor Borja
[Intermediate Plus — typesetting finite automata (state machines), including loops and conditionals]
102-107
Styling R ggplot2 graphics with LaTeX
(doi)
Travis Stenborg (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — integrating R graphics with LaTeX documents in a harmonious style]
108-109
Philology
Creating annotated Unicode-like font charts
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień (orcid)
[Intermediate — inspiration to add Unicode and PUA annotations to font charts]
110-115
Fonts
Production notes
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — rendering modes in LuaLaTeX and unusual Unicode characters]
115
OpenType extensible brace debugging
(doi)
Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist
[Intermediate Plus — braces over single characters, and extensible lists vs. precomposed characters]
116
Software & Tools
ConTeXt in TeX Live 2023
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Intermediate — using the new LuaMetaTeX engine and ConTeXt LMTX]
117-120
Macros
Creating macros in OpTeX
(doi)
Petr Olšák
[Advanced — many conveniences for macro programming, packaging, documenting]
121-126
Reflections on \globaldefs in plain TeX
(doi)
Udo Wermuth
[Advanced — history, behavior, applications, and questions about \globaldefs]
127-133
Methods
Preserving the math class of variables
(doi)
Hans Hagen
[Advanced — new \variablefam extension to allow preserving math classes]
133
Software & Tools
Storing Unicode data in TeX engines
(doi)
Joseph Wright
[Advanced — reading the great mass of Unicode data: two-stage tables and macro storage]
134-137
Reviews
Book review: Do Not Erase, by Jessica Wynne
(doi)
Jim Hefferon
[Reports and notices — review of this coffee table book of mathematicians' chalkboards and short essays]
See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
137-138
Book review: Stop Stealing Sheep & Find out how type works, by Erik Spiekermann
(doi)
John D Lamb
[Reports and notices — review of this book on type and typography principles, now available at no charge]
139-140
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2022–April 2023]
141-142
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 4/2022–1/2023
143
La Lettre GUTenberg: issues 47–49 (2022)
143-144
Zpravodaj: issue 2022/1–4
145
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TeXnology Inc.
145
TeX consulting and production services
146
TUG Business
TUG 2023 election report
(doi)
TUG Elections committee
147-150
TUG financial statements for 2022
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
151
News
Calendar
152
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