Complete issue 45:1 as one pdf (15mb)  Front cover   c1  Inside front cover   c2  Contents ordered by difficulty   c3  Title page   1  Editorial information   2    TUG Business Institutional members   2    General Delivery From the president   (doi) 
  Arthur Rosendahl      [Introductory — What's in a TeX?]  3  Editorial comments   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TeX news]
    Changing of the guard: Robin Laakso retiring as TUG Executive Director;     Errata: TUGboat 44:2;     Errata: TUGboat 44:3;     The (effective) end of comp.text.tex;     DEK—Puzzles and ChatGPT;     An admirable use of AI;     Face/Interface conference at Stanford;     Accessibility for MathML  4-6  Bibliography of Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024)   (doi) 
  Nelson Beebe      [Introductory — with notes on Pascal, TeX, and more]  6    Typography Face/Interface 2023 conference: Global type design and human-computer interaction   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Introductory — report on this two-day conference at Stanford on non-Latin scripts]  7-10  Typographers' Inn   (doi) 
  Peter Flynn      [Introductory — Dashing it off III (em rules reprise); Bookshelves; Afterthought]  10-11    Fonts Variable fonts in LuaTeX, with an introduction to two new fonts: Junicode VF   (doi) 
  Peter S. Baker      [Intermediate — restoring optical scaling to digital fonts, with precise control along multiple design axes]  12-17  dynMath: A PostScript Type 3-based LaTeX package to support extensible mathematical symbols   (doi) 
  Abdelouahad Bayar (orcid)      [Intermediate Plus — extensible parentheses, braces, etc., while preserving the original design]  18-24  Tracing bitmap fonts in LMTX   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate Plus — from high-resolution bitmaps to Type 3, Type 1 and OpenType, through MetaPost]  25-31    Philology Basic Latin brevigraphs listed in Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi—Progress report   (doi) 
  Janusz S. Bień (orcid)      [Advanced — variations of printed glyphs in some early Polish printing]  32-44  Towards an inventory of old print characters: Ungler's Rubricella, a case study—Errata   (doi) 
  Janusz S. Bień (orcid)      [Advanced — some small errata for the prior article, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-3/tb138bien-rubricella.pdf]  44    Tutorials The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Tcolorchat!   (doi) 
  Carla Maggi      [Intermediate — step-by-step use of tcolorbox to generate a colored chat transcript]  45-51    Accessibility Enhancing LaTeX to automatically produce tagged and accessible PDF   (doi) 
  Frank Mittelbach (orcid), Ulrike Fischer (orcid)      [Intermediate Plus — background, status, prospects for generating tagged PDF from LaTeX]  52-59    LaTeX Preparing Horizon Europe proposals in LaTeX with heria   (doi) 
  Tristan Miller (orcid)      [Intermediate — a new class for these complex grant proposals, with motivations, design decisions, real-world use]  59-64  Specifying and populating documents in YAML with lua-placeholders in LaTeX   (doi) 
  Erik Nijenhuis      [Advanced — invoice template implementation with the GTK application GinVoice]  65-76    Software & Tools Building a modern editing environment on Windows around GNU Emacs and AUCTeX   (doi) 
  Arash Esbati      [Intermediate Plus — step-by-step installation of MSYS2, Emacs, and AUCTeX, with practical configuration and usage examples]  77-87  Wikipedia to LaTeX, PDF, EPUB and ODT   (doi) 
  Dirk Hünniger      [Intermediate — many updates to the mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org service and package]  88  Fast regression testing of TeX packages: Multiprocessing and batching   (doi) 
  Vít Starý Novotný, Marei Peischl      [Intermediate Plus — batch limiting and splitting, developer vs. maintainer use]  89-96  Illustrating finite automata with Grail+ and TikZ   (doi) 
  Alastair May, Taylor J. Smith (orcid)      [Intermediate Plus — automatic layout of finite automata with the Grail+ Visualizer]  97-101  Including PDF files   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — optimizing sharing of font instances]  102-105    Macros Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨number⟩?   (doi) 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨number⟩]  106-109  Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨dimen⟩?   (doi) 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨dimen⟩]  109-112    Graphics Visualizing the Mandelbrot set with MetaPost   (doi) 
  Max Günther      [Intermediate — complex numbers in MetaPost, and implementing generation of the Mandelbrot set, with optimizations]  113-114  Semi-automated TikZ directed acyclic graphs in R   (doi) 
  Travis Stenborg (orcid)      [Intermediate — brief tutorial on using the causalDisco R package to generate DAGs]  115-116  Nodes and edges with MetaPost: The MetaGraph environment   (doi) 
  Federico García De Castro      [Advanced — general-purpose programming with data sets of nodes and edges]  117-124  Euclidean geometry with tkz-elements and tkz-euclide   (doi) 
  Alain Matthes      [Advanced — construction of precise geometric figures, using Lua for calculation]  125-133  Unusual bitmaps   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate Plus — making vector graphics and plots from bitmaps with potrace]  134-144    Electronic Documents Signing PDF files   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — methods and representation of cryptographic signatures in PDF]  145-149    Hints & Tricks Computer Modern shape curiosities   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — differing design choices in different CM variants]  149  Radical delimiters   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate — generalizing the extensibility of radicals]  150-151  The treasure chest   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2023–April 2024]  151-153  Production notes   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)      [Intermediate Plus — PDF inclusion/concatenation while preserving both internal and external links]  154    Reviews Book reviews: Shift Happens, by Marcin Wichary   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry (orcid), Boris Veytsman (orcid)      [Reports and notices — a monumental history of keyboards, with sample of the companion Gorton Perfected font]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.  155    Abstracts Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 3–1/2024   156-157  La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 51 (2023)   158  Zpravodaj: issue 2023/3–4   159    TUG Business TUG financial statements for 2023   (doi) 
  Karl Berry (orcid)   160    News & Announcements TeX conferences and lectures   161    Cartoon Comic: Space typography 
  Randall Munroe   161    News Calendar   162    Advertisements TeX consulting and production services   163-164