The Communications of the
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TUGboat 26:3, 2005
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 26:3 as one pdf (4.3mb) | |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 177 |
| Editorial page | 178 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — TUG activities and information for 2005] |
179 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Mimi Burbank retires; |
180 |
| Interview with Donald E. Knuth
Gianluca Pignalberi [Introductory — reprinted from the Free Software Magazine] |
183 |
| Implementing editors' ideas—lots of fun, sometimes even more trouble
Andrzej Tomaszewski [Introductory — communication problems in the world of printing; reprinted from BachoTeX 2005] |
186 |
| Tutorials | |
| Minutes in less than hours: Using LaTeX resources
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — using existing packages as building blocks for a new class] |
188 |
| \starttext: Swelled rules and MetaPost
Steve Peter [Introductory — introduction to using MetaPost in ConTeXt] |
193 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — superscripted ordinals, e-books et al., report layouts] |
196 |
| Philology | |
| The alphabet tree
Peter Wilson [Intermediate — survey of writing systems from Sumeria to the present, profusely illustrated] |
199 |
| Fonts | |
| Advanced font features with XeTeX—the fontspec package
Will Robertson [Intermediate — accessing built-in MacOSX fonts from LaTeX] |
215 |
| ByZLaTeX: A package for typesetting “Byzantine” music
Ioannis Vamvakas, Panagiotis Kotopoulis [Intermediate — Metafont fonts, a LaTeX package, and a historical introduction] |
224 |
| Software & Tools | |
| i-Installer: The evolution of a TeX install on MacOSX
Gerben Wierda [Intermediate — past, present, and future of i-Installer and the associated gwTeX (re)distribution] |
233 |
| The MacTeX distribution
Herbert Schulz [Introductory — Overview of a new easy-to-install distribution for MacOSX, based on gwTeX] |
239 |
| TeX Live for Debian
Norbert Preining [Introductory — The TeX Live software distribution is now available as Debian packages] |
241 |
| Hyphenation patterns in ConTeXt
Hans Hagen [Advanced — languages and hyphenation files, especially in ConTeXt] |
243 |
| Graphics | |
| Diagxy, a Lego-like diagram package
Michael Barr [Intermediate — a generic package for building diagrams from combining blocks] |
246 |
| Embedding fonts in MetaPost output
Troy Henderson [Intermediate — making standalone eps files from MetaPost] |
250 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Glisterings: Empty arguments; the usefulness of nothing; picking characters
Peter Wilson Empty arguments; Clear to even page; Capitalizing first characters |
253 |
| Pearls of TeX programming
[Advanced — an array of short macros (some easy) with useful applications]
Barbara Beeton: New symbols from old Karl Berry: Forcing page or column break in the midst of a paragraph David Carlisle: Guess what Taco Hoekwater: Die Hard Bogusław Jackowski: Extra Béziers Bogusław Jackowski: Locally change parameter values David Kastrup: Comparing two strings known to consist only of characters David Kastrup: Iterating with roman numerals David Kastrup: Sorting words by length Krzysztof Leszczyński: \csequence stack Frank Mittelbach: \looseness not so loose Petr Olšák: \expandafter\endcsname trick Petr Olšák: Testing whether two characters form a ligature Martin Schröder: Colour separation in pdfTeX Bernd Raichle: Plain TeX's accent macros revisited Philip Taylor: The Iterator. |
256 |
| The treasure chest
Mark LaPlante [Intermediate — new and updated CTAN packages in 2005] |
264 |
| LaTeX | |
| powerdot—making presentations with LaTeX
Hendri Adriaens, Chris Ellison [Intermediate Plus — introduction to and implementation of a new class for making slides] |
268 |
| Horrors in LaTeX: How to misuse LaTeX and make a copy editor unhappy
Enrico Gregorio [Introductory — examples of some egregious LaTeX errors, and corrections] |
273 |
| Macros | |
| Eplain 3: Expanded plain TeX
Karl Berry, Oleg Katsitadze [Intermediate — hyperlinks, graphics, color, and other user-level features for plain TeX] |
280 |
| Abstracts | |
| TeXemplares: Contents of issue 7 (2005) | 287 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 14(3-4), 15(1), 15(2) (2004–05) | 287 |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of double issue 44–45 (November 2004) | 289 |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 32 (2005) | 290 |
| The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issues 2005-1–2005-4 | 292 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 297 |
| Practical TeX 2006 announcement | 302 |
| EuroTeX 2006 announcement | 303 |
| TUG 2006 announcement | 304 |
| TUG Business | |
| Financial statements for 2005
Robin Laakso |
298 |
| TeX development fund 2005 report
Karl Berry, Kaja Christiansen |
300 |
| Institutional members | 302 |
| TUG membership form | 301 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 300 |