The Communications of the
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TUGboat 39:1, 2018
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 39:1 as one pdf (5.2mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 1 |
| Editorial information | 2 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 2 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — conferences, funding, accessibility, education] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Birthdays: Donald E. Knuth, Gudrun Zapf von Hesse; Staszek Wawrykiewicz, RIP; Goodbye Glisterings, hello Duckboat; A new “dual” typeface: visible and touchable; 40 years ago …; Hyphens, UK style |
4-5 |
| Hyphenation exception log
Barbara Beeton [Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations] |
5-6 |
| In memoriam: Staszek Wawrykiewicz (1953–2018)
Norbert Preining |
7 |
| TeX as a path, a talk given at Donald Knuth's 80th birthday celebration symposium
Yannis Haralambous [Intermediate — the impact of TeX: technical, esthetic, and personal] |
8-15 |
| TUG is TeX users helping each other
Jonathan Fine [Introductory — brief review of TUG's status and purpose] |
16 |
| LaTeX and Jupyter, TikZ and Vega
Jonathan Fine [Introductory — analogy of TeX and HTML publishing languages] |
16 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — Fonts and faces and families; XeLaTeX] |
17-18 |
| Type designer Nina Stössinger speaks at 3rd Annual Updike Prize event
David Walden [Introductory — report of vibrant presentation on “Looking & Making & Questioning”] |
19 |
| LaTeX | |
| CTAN quiz
Gerd Neugebauer [Introductory — a tour by url through several notable features of CTAN] |
20 |
| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: The Morse code of TikZ
Carla Maggi [Intermediate — history of duck mania, extended TikZ example] |
21-26 |
| Cartoon | |
| Comic: Prefixation
John Atkinson |
27 |
| Software & Tools | |
| From Lua 5.2 to 5.3
Hans Hagen [Advanced — handling complications from new integer representations of numbers] |
27-29 |
| TeXing in Emacs
Marcin Borkowski [Intermediate — Emacs basics, built-in features for text, customizations, extensions] |
30-36 |
| Tutorial: Using external C libraries with the LuaTeX FFI
Henri Menke [Advanced — step-by-step example linking the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) to LuaTeX, and pgfplots] |
37-40 |
| Executing TeX in Lua: Coroutines
Hans Hagen [Advanced — efficiently executing TeX inside Lua loops] |
41-43 |
| LaTeX | |
| New rules for reporting bugs in the LaTeX core software
Frank Mittelbach, LaTeX Project Team [Introductory — as maintained by the LaTeX Project: use the latexbug package and github.com/latex3/latex2e] |
44-47 |
| LaTeX news, issue 28, April 2018
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — A new home for LaTeX2e sources; Bug reports for core LaTeX2e; UTF-8: the new default input encoding; A general rollback concept; Integration of remreset and chngcntr packages; Testing for undefined commands; Changes to packages] |
48-50 |
| TeX.StackExchange cherry picking: expl3
Enrico Gregorio [Advanced — extended examples of expl3 programming: lists, strings, macros, graphics] |
51-59 |
| Graphics | |
| Three-dimensional graphics with TikZ/PSTricks and the help of Geogebra
Luciano Battaia [Intermediate Plus — 3D examples plotted by Geogebra and typeset with TeX] |
60-68 |
| ConTeXt nodes: commutative diagrams and related graphics
Alan Braslau, Idris Hamid, Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — introduction to and graduated examples of diagrams with MetaPost and ConTeXt] article source |
69-80 |
| Methods | |
| TeX's “additional demerits” parameters
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — analysis of \adjdemerits, \finalhyphendemerits, \doublehyphendemerits] |
81-87 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2017–April 2018] |
88-89 |
| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2017–1/2018 | 90 |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 2017/1–4 | 91 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG financial statements for 2017
Karl Berry |
92 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 93-94 |
| News & Announcements | |
| Production notes
Karl Berry [Reports and notices — page numbers as links in TUGboat's complete PDF contents] |
94 |
| TUG 2018 announcement | 95 |
| Calendar | 96 |