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Complete issue 33:1 as one pdf (4.2mb) | |
Front cover | c1 |
Inside front cover | c2 |
Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
Title page | 1 |
General Delivery | |
TUG 2012 announcement | 2 |
Ab epistulis
Steve Peter [Introductory — group membership category; software; conferences; book reviews] |
3 |
Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Don Knuth, reprise; An alternate view of CTAN; Linotype: The Film; |
3 |
Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations] |
5 |
In memoriam: Tony Siegman, 1931–2011
Bruce Armbruster, Jeannie Howard Siegman |
7 |
Typography | |
Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — titling and centering; beaten into submission; afterthought] |
8 |
Fonts | |
Lucida OpenType fonts available from TUG
Karl Berry [Reports and notices — announcement of the new Lucida OpenType font family, including math] |
11 |
The Amiri typeface
Khaled Hosny [Introductory — development and status of this new Arabic typeface, a revival of the Bulaq Press design] |
12 |
Bibliographies | |
Biber—the next generation backend processor for BibLaTeX
Philip Kime [Intermediate — advanced sorting, name processing, and much more for bibliographies] |
13 |
Electronic Documents | |
XeLaTeX and the PDF archivable format
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate Plus — generating PDF/A with XeLaTeX and Ghostscript] |
16 |
LaTeX | |
Avoid eqnarray!
Lars Madsen [Intermediate — reasons for avoiding and alternatives to the eqnarray environment] |
21 |
The unknown picture environment
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate — the original, powerful, and simple drawing environment for LaTeX] |
26 |
The apa6 LaTeX class: Challenges encountered updating to new requirements
Brian Beitzel [Intermediate Plus — implementing the 6th Edition APA formatting, especially citations] |
33 |
Publishing | |
Glisterings: Timelines; parsing a filename
Peter Wilson |
39 |
LaTeX | |
Some LaTeX2e tricks and tips (V)
Luca Merciadri [Intermediate — numbering paragraphs; MATLAB graphics and code; customizing makeindex] |
43 |
LaTeX3 news, issues 6–7
LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — LaTeX3 team expands; `big bang'; LaTeX3 on GitHub; deforming boxes; TeX-based regex engine; xparse improves; galley; relationships between document items] |
46 |
Software & Tools | |
User-friendly web utilities for generating LaTeX output and MetaPost graphics
Troy Henderson [Intermediate — online previewers for LaTeX, MetaPost, and function graphing] |
48 |
TeX on Windows: MiKTeX or TeX Live?
Joseph Wright [Introductory — quick comparison of the two biggest free TeX distributions available for Windows] |
53 |
Generating barcodes with LuaTeX
Patrick Gundlach [Intermediate Plus — a worked-out example of Lua-to-TeX communication] |
54 |
OpenType fonts in LuaTeX
Paul Isambert [Advanced — introduction to and exploration of OpenType internals] Example font. |
59 |
ConTeXt | |
ConTeXt: Updating the code base
Hans Hagen [Advanced — the further evolution of ConTeXt, detailed module by module] |
86 |
Graphics | |
Computing the area and winding number for a Bézier curve
Bogusław Jackowski [Advanced — mathematical derivations and Metafont/MetaPost code for these operations] |
98 |
Three-dimensional graphics with PGF/TikZ
Keith Wolcott [Advanced — mathematics and code examples for drawing surfaces of revolution, satellite orbits, sphere intersections] Article source. |
102 |
Book Reviews | |
Book review: Trees, maps, and theorems, by Jean-luc Doumont
Pavneet Arora [Reports and notices — review of this book on effective communication] |
114 |
Book review: Design for hackers, by David Kadavy
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this modern introduction to design] |
116 |
Book review: Companion to the Papers of Donald Knuth
David Walden [Reports and notices — review of this ninth volume, completing the series of Knuth's papers] |
118 |
Hints & Tricks | |
The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, November 2011–March 2012] |
119 |
Abstracts | |
Eutypon: Contents of issue 26–27 (October 2011) | 121 |
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 4/2011–1/2012 | 121 |
Asian Journal of TeX: Contents of volumes 4–5 (2010–2011) | 122 |
Advertisements | |
TeX consulting and production services | 124 |
TUG Business | |
Institutional members | 126 |
TUG financial statements for 2011
Karl Berry |
126 |
News | |
Calendar | 128 |