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Complete issue 47:2 as one pdf (34mb)
Videos for all talks.
Front cover
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Inside front cover
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Contents ordered by difficulty
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Title page
145
TUG 2026
TUG 2026 conference information
146
TUG 2026 conference program
147
TUG 2026 conference photos
148-150
Vice-President's report on TUG 2026
(doi)
Erik Nijenhuis
151-153
TUG 2026 Annual General Meeting notes
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
154-155
General Delivery
Meeting TeX friends: Adventures across LUGs
(doi)
Erik Nijenhuis
[Introductory — personal reflections on two years of cross-continental TeX meetings]
155-158
A (somewhat biased) history of TeX and TUG
(doi)
Barbara Beeton
[Introductory — the origin of TeX and significant events in TUG's history, ca. 1980–2000]
159-162
LaTeX
LaTeX news, issue 43, June 2026
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team
[Intermediate — tagged PDF news; new or improved commands; formalization of expl3 release requirement; glyphs, characters & encodings; changes in amsmath, tools]
163-168
News from the LaTeX Tagged PDF project: 2026
(doi)
Ulrike Fischer (orcid)
[Intermediate — accessible math, ending the testphase, new interfaces, keeping up]
169-172
Towards accessible document classes
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — a template-based approach to designing document elements, with emulation of common packages]
173-177
No more backtracking: Abbreviations in the Markdown package for TeX
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný
[Intermediate Plus — marking up abbreviations for consistency]
178-180
Executable document templates for safe and reproducible document redaction
(doi)
Erik Nijenhuis
[Advanced — data-driven compilation inspired by government disclosure requirements]
181-185
Preparing SSHRC Insight Grant applications in LaTeX with sshrc-insight
(doi)
Tristan Miller (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — developing complex grant proposals, with multilingual support and more]
186-194
Accessibility
Visual impairment meets mathematics: Bypassing institutional inertia
(doi)
Aarush Bhat, Timothy Erickson
[Intermediate — STEM learning for the visually impaired via code-based workflows, from a student and his coach]
195-202
Converting a PDF textbook to be accessible
(doi)
Timothy Prescott (orcid)
[Intermediate — making a large calculus textbook accessible, and handling verification]
203-207
Creating accessible presentations with ltx-talk
(doi)
Timothy Prescott (orcid)
[Intermediate — using and customizing ltx-talk, as well as adapting beamer styles]
208-211
Modernizing MIT's thesis template: mitthesis.cls
(doi)
John H. Lienhard
[Intermediate Plus — thesis template construction, including extensive tagging, rendering in HTML/CSS, and expl3 coding]
212-221
Experimental lists and titling for PDF/UA-2 conformance
(doi)
Erik Nijenhuis
[Intermediate Plus — replacing enumitem and titlesec using new LaTeX interfaces to gain accessibility]
222-226
The pursuit of professional and accessible tables in LaTeX
(doi)
Rahul Krishnan S, CV Radhakrishnan (orcid), Rishikesan Nair T
[Intermediate Plus — creating accessible tables, utilizing many packages and hand-coding]
227-229
Graphics
V3D: Portable interactive 3D graphics for PDF and beyond
(doi)
John C. Bowman
[Advanced — improved rendering and portability for 3D vector graphics, with examples using Asymptote]
230-233
General Delivery
Frank Mittelbach has received an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University
(doi)
Petr Sojka (orcid)
[Introductory — reprint from TUGboat 47:1 due to printing error]
234-242
Humanities
LaTeX for elegant humanities handouts in conferences and classrooms
(doi)
Corey J. Stephan
[Intermediate — getting started, parallel texts, non-Latin languages, and recommendations]
243-247
Electronic Documents
Digital archiving of Malayalam content II
(doi)
CV Radhakrishnan (orcid), KV Rajeesh
[Intermediate Plus — using TeX4ht, HTML5, XSLT, to make archivable TEI XML with UTF-8 content]
248-253
Literate Programming
Endless forms most literate
(doi)
Mitchell Gerrard
[Intermediate Plus — from Pierre-Arnoul de Marneffe's holons to Graham Nelson's Inweb]
254-257
Hyphenation
UTFpatgen: Pattern generation without borders
(doi)
Ondřej Metelka (orcid), Petr Sojka (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — generating patterns from UTF-8 input, without arbitrary limits]
258-263
Software & Tools
Real-time LuaTeX: Recompiling large documents in 1ms
(doi)
Clemens Lode (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — immediate editing and paragraph reflow, with O(1) latency]
263-266
Quantum boundaries for last line adjustments
(doi)
Didier Verna (orcid)
[Advanced — new algorithms for optimally typesetting the last line of a paragraph]
267-276
Methods
Inferring logical structure of a scientific paper from visual representation: An easy task for humans, but surprisingly hard for AI
(doi)
Prasad Adhiyaman, Shreyans Babel, Chhandak Bagchi, Boris Veytsman (orcid)
[Intermediate Plus — results of training LLMs to recover LaTeX structuring]
277-280
Publishing
TeX and XML-based authoring tools: Speed and precision in journal publishing
(doi)
Rishikesan Nair T, CV Rajagopal, Apu V, Rahul Krishnan S
[Intermediate — challenges in the modern journal publishing environment]
281-283
Abstracts
TUG 2026 abstracts
(doi)
Pavneet Arora, Takuto Asakura, Paulo Ney de Souza, Vincent Goulet (orcid), Jasper Nice, Norbert Preining, Vít Starý Novotný, River Temple
284-285
Die TeXnische Komödie: 2/2026
286
MAPS: issue 55 (2025)
287
Reviews
Book review: LaTeX Beginner's Guide, third edition, by Stefan Kottwitz
(doi)
Uwe Ziegenhagen
See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
288-289
General Delivery
Errata in TUGboat 47:1: missing f-ligatures; incorrect author and title; TUG board members
(doi)
TUGboat Editors
289
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry (orcid)
[Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April 2026–August 2026]
290-293
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services
294-295
TUG patron: TeXFolio
295
TUG Business
Institutional members
295
News
Calendar
296