The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 31:1, 2010
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| Complete issue 31:1 as one pdf (5.3mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the President
Karl Berry [Introductory — conferences; interviews; TeX Collection 2010; TeX journals] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] TeX at 25; Pi Day; The @ sign as a design icon; Amusements on the Web; Videos of typography talks on the Web; Alphabet soup |
4 |
| An argument for learning LaTeX: The benefits of typesetting and beyond
Evan Wessler [Introductory — benefits of LaTeX apart from aesthetics] |
6 |
| Publishing | |
| A computer scientist self-publishing in the humanities
Nicolaas Mars [Intermediate — notes on layout, creating new glyphs, and self-publishing with CreateSpace] |
9 |
| Typography | |
| Strategies against widows
Paul Isambert |
12 |
| Theses and other beautiful documents with classicthesis
André Miede [Introductory — overview and examples of classicthesis] |
18 |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — indenting; where have all the flowers gone?] |
21 |
| Fonts | |
| Minimal setup for a (Cyrillic) TrueType font
Oleg Parashchenko [Intermediate — concise step-by-step creation of support files for a new font] |
23 |
| LuaTeX: Microtypography for plain fonts
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — font extension, slant, protrusion and expansion for LuaTeX] |
26 |
| Mathematical typefaces in TeX documents
Amit Raj Dhawan [Introductory — examples of existing typefaces with math support, and plain macros] |
27 |
| Software & Tools | |
| LuaTeX: Deeply nested notes
Hans Hagen [Advanced — migrating nested footnotes and other insertions via Lua] |
32 |
| Graphics | |
| The current state of the PSTricks project
Herbert Voß [Intermediate — review of basic PSTricks, generation of PDF, a wealth of examples] |
36 |
| Plotting experimental data using pgfplots
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — creating good-looking and scientifically accurate plots] |
50 |
| From Logo to MetaPost
Mateusz Kmiecik [Intermediate — comparison of graphics, both simple and complex, in Logo and MetaPost] |
59 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 19
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — 2009 LaTeX release; new code repository; Babel; the future] |
64 |
| Talbot packages: An overview
Nicola Talbot [Intermediate — date and time, glossaries, spreadsheet-like manipulation, poster layout, graphics drawing, and more] |
65 |
| Tuning LaTeX to one's own needs
Jacek Kmiecik [Intermediate Plus — customizing page layout, section titles, headings, figure placement, and more] |
68 |
| Some misunderstood or unknown LaTeX2e tricks
Luca Merciadri [Introductory — matrix with borders; accolades in tables; envelopes; microtypography] |
76 |
| LaTeX3 news, issue 3
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — xparse; xtemplate; upcoming plans] |
79 |
| Beyond \newcommand with xparse
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — LaTeX3's extended facilities for defining macros] |
80 |
| Programming key–value in expl3
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — a general key–value package for LaTeX3] |
83 |
| ConTeXt | |
| ConTeXt basics for users: Conditional processing
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate — usage of ConTeXt modes, with several examples] |
88 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Glisterings: Counting; changing the layout
Peter Wilson |
90 |
| The exact placement of superscripts and subscripts
Timothy Hall [Advanced — adjusting font dimensions to improve superscript/subscript appearance] |
94 |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages from July 2009 through April 2010] |
96 |
| Abstracts | |
| ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 8 (October 2009) | 99 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2009/4–2010/2 | 100 |
| Asian Journal of TeX: Contents of Volume 3 (2009) | 101 |
| Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issues 48–53 (2006–2009) | 102 |
| Eutypon: Contents of issue 22–23 (October 2009) | 104 |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 38 (2009) | 105 |
| Baskerville: Contents of issue 10.2 (2009) | 105 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 16(1), 19(3)–19(4) (2006, 2009) | 106 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2009
David Walden |
109 |
| Institutional members | 110 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 111 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 112 |