The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 39:3, 2018
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| Complete issue 39:3 as one pdf (8.8mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 161 |
| Editorial information | 162 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 162 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — thoughts on (un)constrained funding] |
163 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Updated link for the IEEE Annals issue table of contents. Related material, including preprints for the TeX papers, is available from Dave Walden's TeX history page. |
164-166 |
| TUGboat open-access survey results
TUG Board [Introductory — increasing open access to all but the current issue, with survey results] |
167 |
| TeXConf 2018 in Japan
Norbert Preining [Reports and notices — report on lively conference in Sapporo] |
168 |
| Typography | |
| The Cary Graphic Arts Collection
David Walden [Introductory — a brief overview of this remarkable printing, typography, and graphics collection] |
169-170 |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Monospace that fits; Centering (reprise); Afterthought] |
171-172 |
| Tutorials | |
| A beginner's guide to file encoding and TeXShop
Herbert Schulz, Richard Koch [Intermediate — introduction to file encodings, Unicode, and handling them in TeX(Shop)] |
173-176 |
| The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: Formatting posts
Carla Maggi [Introductory — upvoting behavior, Markdown-based formatting and PDF-to-image conversion] |
177-181 |
| Managing the paper trail of student projects: datatool and more
B. Tomas Johansson [Intermediate — step-by-step generation of typical student reports from .csv files] |
182-184 |
| Fonts | |
| Interview with Kris Holmes
David Walden [Intermediate — in-depth discussion of calligraphy, font design, and more, with many illustrations] |
185-203 |
| Science and history behind the design of Lucida
Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes [Intermediate — historical precedents, principles of reading, practical digital type design] |
204-211 |
| TeX Gyre text fonts revisited
Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Pianowski, Piotr Strzelczyk [Intermediate Plus — incorporating math and symbol glyphs into text fonts, and OpenType accent positioning] |
212-216 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| HINT: Reflowing TeX output
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate Plus — postponing TeX page rendering to a separate device, e.g., tablet] |
217-223 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Axessibility: Creating PDF documents with accessible formulae
D. Ahmetovic, T. Armano, C. Bernareggi, M. Berra, A. Capietto, Sandro Coriasco, N. Murru, A. Ruighi [Intermediate Plus — automatically making readable math formulae] |
224-227 |
| Improving the representation and conversion of mathematical formulae by considering the textual context
Moritz Schubotz, André Greiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Norman Meuschke, Howard S. Cohl, Bela Gipp [Intermediate Plus — gold standard benchmark and metrics to evaluate (La)TeX to MathML tools] |
228-240 |
| Graphics | |
| Dednat6: An extensible (semi-)preprocessor for LuaLaTeX that understands diagrams in ASCII art
Eduardo Ochs [Intermediate Plus — a Forth-based language for 2D diagrams implemented in Lua] |
241-245 |
| LaTeX | |
| Managing forlorn paragraph lines (a.k.a. widows and orphans) in LaTeX
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate — finding all widows and orphans, and discussion of possible fixes] |
246-251 |
| The widows-and-orphans package
Frank Mittelbach [Advanced — documented implementation of the widows-and-orphans package in expl3] |
252-262 |
| The dashundergaps package
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — replacing material with underlines, with expl3 implementation] |
263-274 |
| Bibliographies | |
| State secrets in bibliography-style hacking
Karl Berry, Oren Patashnik [Advanced — inserting a custom separator between fields in bibliography entries] The ieeelike.bst example mentioned in the article. |
275 |
| Methods | |
| Experiments with \parfillskip
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — analysis of \parfillskip settings, aiming to minimize too-short or too-long last lines] |
276-303 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2018] |
304 |
| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2018 | 305 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 305-306 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2019 election
TUG Elections committee |
307 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 308 |