The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 29:1, 2008
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 29:1 as one pdf (16mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Title page | 1 |
| EuroTeX 2007 | |
| EuroTeX 2007 conference delegates and sponsors | 2 |
| EuroTeX 2007 program | 4 |
| EuroBachoTeX 2007: Paths to the Future
Jerzy Ludwichowski, Petr Sojka [Introductory — introduction to the conference and proceedings] |
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| EuroTeX 2007 photos | 8 |
| Confessions of a teenage TeX user
Sam Guravage [Introductory — report on the talk, with photos] |
13 |
| Typography | |
| Handmade paper: A mixture of handcraft, art and fun
Grażyna Jackowska [Introductory — report on a papermaking workshop, with photos] |
14 |
| Designing a special book: With both pleasure and … fear
Andrzej Tomaszewski [Introductory — creation of a commemorative edition for the Warsaw Waterworks jubilee] High-resolution pdf. |
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| Enumerations as an interesting form of text appearance
Dorota Cendrowska [Introductory — classical and modern formatting of enumerations] |
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| Fonts | |
| Five years after: Report on international TeX font projects
Jerzy Ludwichowski, Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz Nowacki [Introductory — status and samples of these two major font projects] |
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| Cyklop: A new font family
Janusz Nowacki [Introductory — a heavy sans serif oblique for titling and displays] |
27 |
| Do we need a font system in TeX?
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — reflections on the font system in TeX generally, ConTeXt specifically, and coming changes] |
28 |
| OpenType fonts in LuaTeX
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — overview of the state of reading OpenType directly from LuaTeX] |
34 |
| Font-specific issues in pdfTeX
Hàn Thế Thành [Intermediate — microtypography, letterspacing, interword spacing, character kerning, subfont, runpdftex] |
36 |
| Those obscure accents …
Karel Horák [Introductory — discussion and comparison of the many versions of caron (háček) accents] |
42 |
| Creation of a PostScript Type1 logo font with MetaType1
Klaus Höppner [Intermediate — tutorial for implementing a font with MetaType1] |
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| Procedures for font comparison
Karel Píška [Intermediate Plus — tools and examples for detailed comparison of glyphs, kerns, and more] |
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| Comments and suggestions about the Latin Modern fonts
Karel Píška [Intermediate Plus — comparisons among Latin Modern, Computer Modern, and the Czech/Slovak CS fonts] |
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| The GUST Font License: An application of the LaTeX Project Public License
Jerzy Ludwichowski, Karl Berry [Introductory — using the LPPL (with an additional request) for fonts] |
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| Resources | |
| A brief history of TeX, volume II
Arthur Reutenauer [Introductory — recapitulation of TeX origins, evolution, and descendants] |
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| Overview of the TeX historic archive
Ulrik Vieth [Introductory — preserving TeX distributions and packages for software archaeologists] |
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| TeX Clinic
Joanna Ludmiła Ryćko [Introductory — overview of the TeX help clinic available at Bachotek and via email] |
77 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Parameterized Arabic font development for AlQalam
Ameer Sherif, Hossam Fahmy [Intermediate Plus — achieving high-quality Arabic typesetting through Metafont pens and drawing] |
79 |
| Nastaleeq: A challenge accepted by Omega
Atif Gulzar, Shafiq ur Rahman [Intermediate Plus — implementing the Urdu script in Omega] |
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| Typesetting Vietnamese with VnTeX (and with the TeX Gyre fonts too)
Hàn Thế Thành [Intermediate — introduction to typesetting Vietnamese in TeX] |
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| Managing order relations in MlBibTeX
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Intermediate Plus — handling language-specific lexicographic orderings] |
101 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| Introducing LaTeX users to XSL-FO
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Intermediate — concise introduction to XSL-FO with comparisons to LaTeX] |
109 |
| Using TeX in a wiki
Tomasz Łuczak [Introductory — overview of using TeX as a back-end for PDF production from a wiki] |
117 |
| Publishing | |
| Single-source publishing in multiple formats for different output devices
Petr Sojka, Michal Růžička [Intermediate — using high-level markup, pdfLaTeX, and TeX4ht for multiple output formats] |
118 |
| Practical journal and proceedings publication on paper and on the web
Péter Szabó [Intermediate — techniques and advice for editorial workflow and production operations] |
125 |
| Software & Tools | |
| An experimental CTAN upload process
Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — a cooperative web-based CTAN (and TeX Live) package processing method] |
133 |
| TeX (Live) on Debian
Norbert Preining [Intermediate — usage of TeX on Debian, including package and font installation] |
136 |
| Epspdf: Easy conversion between PostScript and PDF
Siep Kroonenberg [Introductory — command-line and GUI interface to convenient graphics conversion] |
140 |
| pdfTeX 1.40: What's new
Martin Schröder [Intermediate — overview of new features: JBIG2, color stacks, transformation matrices, and more] |
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| XeTeX Live
Jonathan Kew [Introductory — XeTeX's incorporation in TeX Live 2007, and further developments] |
146 |
| Conventional scoping of registers—An experiment in exTeX
Gerd Neugebauer [Advanced — alternative localization of registers via the Java infrastructure of exTeX] |
151 |
| MlBibTeX: Reporting the experience
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Intermediate Plus — discussing design and implementation choices of the MlBibTeX program] |
157 |
| Writing (La)TeX documents with AUCTeX in Emacs
David Kastrup [Introductory — introduction to the AUCTeX Emacs facilities, and download locations] |
163 |
| LyX: An editor not just for secretaries
Tomasz Łuczak [Introductory — overview of LyX, an editor for TeX with a graphical interface] |
164 |
| Publishing | |
| Automated DVD menu authoring with pdfLaTeX
Péter Szabó [Intermediate Plus — creating standard DVDs with menus created in LaTeX] |
166 |
| LaTeX | |
| Graphics in LaTeX using TikZ
Zofia Walczak [Introductory — introduction to TikZ for drawing graphics directly in LaTeX] |
176 |
| LaTeX vs. LaTeX—a modification of the logo
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Introductory — a LaTeX logo definition that self-adjusts to many fonts] |
180 |
| Benefits, care and feeding of the bigfoot package
David Kastrup [Intermediate — improved page breaking and other footnote enhancements] |
181 |
| MathPSfrag: LaTeX labels in Mathematica plots
Johannes Große [Intermediate Plus — typographically consistent labels for Mathematica plots, using PDF or PostScript] |
184 |
| makematch, a LaTeX package for pattern matching with wildcards
David Kastrup [Advanced — efficient pattern matching supporting * and !] |
190 |
| qstest, a LaTeX package for unit tests
David Kastrup [Advanced — extensive unit testing functionality, including embedding in dtx files] |
193 |
| Macros | |
| gmverse and gmcontinuo—some nontrivial placement of text on a page
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Intermediate — optical centering and right alignment of verses; continuous paragraph setting] |
199 |
| The gmdoc bundle—a new tool for documenting (La)TeX sources
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Intermediate Plus — an enhanced reimplementation of doc] |
201 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| TeX beauties and oddities
Paweł Jackowski [Advanced — the 2007 edition of TeX pearls] Péter Szabó: A TeX quine Hans Hagen: Multi-signed numbers Jerzy Ludwichowski: Double-hat trap Paweł Jackowski: \vbox height vs. \vtop depth Paweł Jackowski: (Ir)relevant missing character message Paweł Jackowski: Skip assignments Bogusław Jackowski: Current font global assignment Marcin Woliński: How to make a box disappear at a line break Bogusław Jackowski: Variable-width visible space Marcin Woliński: Do you need some stretch? Bogusław Jackowski: MetaPost tables indexed with strings Marcin Woliński: Multiple expansions triggered with a single \expandafter Grzegorz Murzynowski: Hacking verbatim Paweł Jackowski: Custom overfull text. |
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| Puzzle | |
| Crossword
Janusz Nowacki |
216 |
| Abstracts | |
| EuroTeX 2007 abstracts
Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater, David Kastrup, Manfred Lotz, Ross Moore, Marek Ryćko, Andrzej Tomaszewski Presentations. |
217 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Table macros II
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate — further overview of making tables in ConTeXt] |
219 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 223 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 223 |
| In memoriam Bernard Gaulle
Maurice Laugier |
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