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TUGboat 39:2, 2018

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Complete issue 39:2 as one pdf (5.8mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page 
    Errata: should be 39th annual conference, not 38th.
 97 
 
TUG 2018
TUG 2018 conference information 
    organizers, sponsors, participants, program
 98 
TUG goes to Rio 
  Joseph Wright      [Reports and notices — conference report]
 100-103 
TUG 2018 Annual Meeting notes 
  Joseph Wright 
 104 
 
Graphics
The tikzducks package 
  Susanne Raab      [Introductory — introduction, tutorials, and fun with these TikZ graphics]
 105-106 
 
LaTeX
A rollback concept for packages and classes 
  Frank Mittelbach      [Intermediate Plus — supporting rollback by date or version for packages, as well as the kernel]
 107-112 
Font loading in LaTeX using the fontspec package: Recent updates 
  Will Robertson      [Intermediate — usage summary, filename loading recommendation, futures]
 113-116 
Supporting color and graphics in expl3 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate — LaTeX2e vs. LaTeX3 drivers, color, comparison with TikZ, examples]
 117-118 
siunitx: Past, present and future 
  Joseph Wright      [Intermediate — origination, concepts, API, and enhancements]
 119-121 
 
Software & Tools
Arara—TeX automation made easy 
  Paulo Cereda      [Intermediate — TeX build tool supporting MVEL expressions and more]
 122-125 
The Canvas learning management system and LaTeXML 
  Will Robertson      [Intermediate Plus — connecting coursework documents in LaTeX with web-based management]
 126-130 
Implementing PDF standards for mathematical publishing 
  Ross Moore      [Intermediate Plus — five-year plan for archivable and accessible mathematical PDFs]
 131-135 
 
Fonts
FreeType_MF_Module: A module for using Metafont directly inside the FreeType rasterizer 
  Jaeyoung Choi, Ammar Ul Hassan, Geunho Jeong      [Advanced — rendering Metafont fonts on demand from within FreeType]
 136-142 
 
Methods
WeTeX and Hegelian contradictions in classical mathematics 
  S.K. Venkatesan      [Advanced — attempted computability of math markup; hierarchy of infinities]
 143-146 
 
Abstracts
TUG 2018 abstracts 
  Doris Behrendt, Sandro Coriasco, Joachim Heinze, Tom Hejda, Mico Loretan, Frank Mittelbach, Ross Moore, Eduardo Ochs, Boris Veytsman, Joseph Wright 
 147-149 
MAPS: Contents of issue 48 (2018)   149 
Die TeXnische Komödie 2–3/2018   150 
Eutypon: Contents of issue 38–39 (October 2017)   151 
 
General Delivery
Don Knuth awarded Trotter Prize 
  Bart Childs, Rick Furuta      [Reports and notices — a prize awarded by Texas A&M University to illuminate connections between science and religion]
 151 
Hyphenation exception log 
  Barbara Beeton      [Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations]
 152 
 
Book Reviews
W.A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design, by Bruce Kennett 
  Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this superb and lavishly illustrated biography of Dwiggins]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 153-154 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–August 2018]
 155-156 
 
Cartoon
Comics: Hyphe-nation; Clumsy 
  John Atkinson 
 156 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   157-158 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   158 
TUG 2019 election 
  TUG Elections committee 
 159 
 
News
Calendar   160 

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