The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 26:1, 2005
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Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.
This issue combines regular articles and other material with the Practical TeX 2005 conference proceedings.
If you're not already a member, we hope you'll consider joining TUG or another TeX user group, to support these publications, conferences, and other TeX projects.
| Complete issue 26:1 as one pdf (5mb) | |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Karl Berry [Introductory — TUG activities and information for 2005] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Old TUGboat issues go electronic; CTAN announcement archives; |
3 |
| Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — update to missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations] |
5 |
| LaTeX | |
| Stacks in TeX
Pedro Quaresma [Advanced — stacks, for package writers, and commutative diagrams] |
7 |
| Graphics | |
| Kissing circles: A French romance in MetaPost
Denis Roegel [Advanced — MetaPost construction of the “Apollonian gasket” of tangent circles] |
10 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Using the RPM package manager for (La)TeX packages
Tristan Miller [Intermediate Plus — using and building RPM packages for TeX] |
17 |
| Practical TeX 2005 | |
| Conference program, delegates, and sponsors | 29 |
| Impressions of PracTeX'05
Peter Flom, Tristan Miller [Introductory — comments on the conference from attendees] |
31 |
| Keynote | |
| The design of TeX and Metafont: A retrospective
Nelson Beebe [Advanced — historical review of the TeX system software design and development] |
33 |
| Talks | |
| A LaTeX fledgling struggles to take flight
Peter Flom [Introductory — incentives and barriers to learning LaTeX] |
52 |
| The art of LaTeX problem solving
Anita Schwartz [Introductory — summary of strategies and resources for debugging LaTeX] |
56 |
| Strategies for including graphics in LaTeX documents
Klaus Höppner [Introductory — introduction to common graphics formats and tools] |
59 |
| Making a booklet
Joseph Hogg [Introductory — notes on useful packages and processes for booklet production] |
63 |
| LaTeX on the Web
Peter Flynn [Introductory — review of LaTeX interactions with the Web] |
66 |
| Beamer by example
Andrew Mertz, William Slough [Introductory — producing slide presentations via a series of examples] |
68 |
| Batch Commander: A graphical user interface for TeX
Kaveh Bazargan [Intermediate — interactive parameter setting and instant feedback] |
74 |
| Word to LaTeX for a large, multi-author scientific paper
David Ignat [Intermediate — conversion from Word and Perl manipulation of references] |
81 |
| Biblet: A portable BibTeX bibliography style for generating highly customizable XHTML
Tristan Miller [Intermediate Plus — making Web pages from bibliographies in pure BibTeX] |
85 |
| Prac'TeX 2005 abstracts
David Allen, John Burt, Ron Fehd, Eitan Gurari, Mirko Janc, Jonathan Kew, Steve Peter |
97 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 99 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 104 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 104 |
| Silmaril Consultants | 101 |
| Joe Hogg | 101 |
| Carleton Production Centre | 101 |
| Personal TeX, Inc. | 102 |
| River Valley Technologies | 102 |
| Design Science, Inc. | 102 |
| The LaTeX Companion, second edition, by Frank Mittelbach et al. | 102 |
| Steve Peter | 103 |
| Cheryl Ponchin Training | 103 |
| MacKichan Software, Inc. | 103 |