The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 30:3, 2009
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 30:3 as one pdf (11mb) | |
| Title page | |
| Editorial information | |
| EuroTeX 2009 | |
| EuroTeX 2009
Hans Hagen [Reports and notices — report on the conference, with photos] |
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| News | |
| EuroTeX 2010 (Pisa, Italy) announcement | 2 |
| 4th ConTeXt meeting (Brejlov, Czech Republic) announcement | 3 |
| TUG 2010 (San Francisco, USA) announcement | 4 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 4 |
| Dreamboat | |
| TeX education—a neglected approach
Kees van der Laan [Intermediate Plus — proposal for education with many graphics and macro examples] |
5 |
| Software & Tools | |
| LuaTeX lunatic
Luigi Scarso [Advanced — embedding Python in LuaTeX; examples with scientific graphics] |
34 |
| Graphics | |
| Decorating CD-ROMs and DVDs
Willi Egger [Intermediate — using ConTeXt to make CD-size labels, jewel case booklets and inlays] |
59 |
| Software & Tools | |
| The language mix
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — summary of future mixes of TeX MetaPost, Lua, XML, and tools] |
72 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| E16 & DEtool—typesetting language data using ConTeXt
Jelle Huisman [Intermediate Plus — typesetting the Ethnologue, an encyclopedia of the world's languages] |
78 |
| Software & Tools | |
| A network TeX Live installation at the University of Groningen
Siep Kroonenberg [Intermediate — setting up a large networked TeX Live for Windows] |
86 |
| Using TeX's language within a course about functional programming
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — using the TeX language to illustrate advanced programming ideas] |
92 |
| Teaching & Training | |
| Introducing new French-speaking users to LaTeX quickly and convincingly
Anne-Marie Aebischer, Bruno Aebischer, Jean-Michel Hufflen, François Pétiard [Introductory — introducing LaTeX to French students in mathematics] |
99 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Oriental TeX by a dummy
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — summary of the Oriental TeX project] |
105 |
| Philology | |
| Writing Pitman shorthand with Metafont and LaTeX
Stanislav Jan Šarman [Advanced — an online system converting English text to Pitman 2000 shorthand] |
107 |
| PDF and TeX | |
| Optimizing PDF output size of TeX documents
Péter Szabó [Intermediate Plus — detailed analysis of size reduction strategies for PDF output] |
112 |
| Generating PDF for e-reader devices
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — using ConTeXt for on-the-fly PDF generation for iRex e-readers] |
131 |
| Software & Tools | |
| LuaTeX says goodbye to Pascal
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate Plus — rationale and examples in converting LuaTeX from Pascal web to C] |
136 |
| Publishing | |
| The Typesetting of Statistics
Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate — using ConTeXt to produce the Dutch translation of a large statistics textbook] |
141 |
| Graphics | |
| MetaPost 2 project goals
Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater [Intermediate Plus — numerical precision and related MetaPost 2 goals] |
143 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Using LaTeX as a computing language
John Trapp [Advanced — calculations of dates, vector/scalar products, and more in LaTeX] |
145 |
| Typography | |
| Experiences typesetting mathematical physics
Ulrik Vieth [Intermediate Plus — dealing with physics notation and fine-tuning appearance of math formulas] |
166 |
| Abstracts | |
| EuroTeX 2009 abstracts
Hans Hagen, Lucien Lemmens, Zofia Walczak, Jonathan Fine, Jonathan Kew, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky, Martin Schröder, Taco Hoekwater, Jerzy Ludwichowski, Bogusław Jackowski, Karel Píška, Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer |
179 |
| EuroTeX 2009 | |
| Participant list | 182 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 183 |