Complete issue 38:3 as one pdf (12mb)  Front cover   c1  Inside front cover   c2  Contents ordered by difficulty   c3  Title page   289  Editorial information   290    TUG Business Institutional members   290    General Delivery From the president 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Introductory — conferences, EduTeX group, LaTeX wikibook, institutional memberships]  291  Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    Contents of TUGboat issues online;     Birthday celebration for Donald Knuth;     Public appearances by Don Knuth (online);     The Doves Type: reprise;     The Go fonts go Greek;     Calcula, an experimental display typeface;     Extra Bold: A forgery foiled  291-292  Collecting memories of the beginnings of desktop publishing 
  David Walden      [Introductory — informal report of a meeting of desktop publishing pioneers]
    The transcript of the entire meeting is available.  293  Interview: Michael Sharpe 
  David Walden      [Introductory — long-time user of TeX and recently active in the TeX fonts world]  294-298  Advertising TeX 
  Hans Hagen      [Introductory — TeX, Word, natural languages, recursion]  299-300    Tutorials The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Asking effective questions 
  Carla Maggi      [Introductory — creating minimal working examples, accepting answers on StackExchange, and more]  301-305    Typography Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing—The 20th century, Volume 2 (ch. 6–8+) 
  Charles Bigelow      [Intermediate — third of three installments; chapter-by-chapter summaries for vol. 2 (1950–2000), ch. 6–8 and end materials]
         Combined three-part review.  306-311    Fonts Serifed Greek type: Is it “Greek”? 
  Antonis Tsolomitis      [Intermediate — origin and discussion of Athenais, a new titling font based on a pedestal in the Athens Parthenon]  312-314    ConTeXt ConTeXt for beginners 
  Willi Egger      [Intermediate — tutorial introduction to ConTeXt: page layout, headers, tables, figures, fonts]  315-323    Graphics Art Concret, Basic Design and meta-design 
  Marcel Herbst      [Intermediate — history and programs linking l'art concret, Basic Design, and MetaPost]  324-328  The current state of the PSTricks project, part II 
  Herbert Voß      [Intermediate — new PSTricks packages and features]  329-337    LaTeX Glisterings: Reading lines; paragraph endings; in conclusion 
  Peter Wilson 
         Reading external files; Paragraph final lines; Concluding the Glisterings  338-341  DocVar: Manage and use document variables 
  Zunbeltz Izaola, Paulo Ney de Souza      [Intermediate — package to handle general document metadata]  342-344  Set my (pdf)pages free 
  David Walden      [Introductory — using the pdfpages package to overcome inadvertent protection]  345  Automatic generation of herbarium labels from spreadsheet data using LaTeX 
  R. Sean Thackurdeen, Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Intermediate — using datatool and more to automatically create standard herbarium labels]  345-349  Typesetting actuarial symbols easily and consistently with actuarialsymbol and actuarialangle 
  David Beauchemin, Vincent Goulet (orcid)      [Intermediate — including correct pre/post sub-/super-script positioning around principal symbols]  350-353    Software & Tools Converting TeX from WEB to cweb 
  Martin Ruckert      [Advanced — automatic conversion to CWEB, with comparisons to Web2C and LuaTeX]  353-358  dvisvgm: Generating scalable vector graphics from DVI and EPS files 
  Martin Gieseking      [Intermediate — thorough discussion of dvisvgm's development and notable features]  359-368  Tricky fences 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — extensible delimiters, regular characters, and controlling spacing differences in LuaTeX]  369-372    Macros Testing indexes: testidx.sty 
  Nicola Talbot      [Advanced — test methodology and exhaustive comparisons of makeindex, xindy, glossaries, and more]  373-399  A note on \linepenalty 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — thorough analysis of how \linepenalty affects line breaking, with comparison with \looseness]  400-414    Hints & Tricks The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2017]  415-416    Cartoon Comics: Typeface; Elefonts 
  John Atkinson   416    Hints & Tricks Another seasonal puzzle: XII take II 
  David Carlisle      [Advanced — fun with plain TeX]  416    Book Reviews Book reviews: Shady Characters and The Book by Keith Houston 
  Peter Wilson      [Reports and notices — review of these two books on the history and present of typography and books]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.  417-419    Abstracts Die TeXnische Komödie 3/2017   420  MAPS: Contents of issue 47 (2017)   420    Advertisements TeX consulting and production services   421-422    News Practical TeX 2018 announcement 
         Conference page.  423  Calendar   424