The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 40:2, 2019
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 40:2 as one pdf (9.1mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 97 |
| TUG 2019 | |
| TUG 2019 conference information
organizers, sponsors, participants, program, photos |
98 |
| TUG 2019 conference program | 99 |
| TUG 2019 photos | 100 |
| Back to the roots: TUG2019 in Palo Alto
Henri Menke conference report |
101-104 |
| TUG 2019 Annual General Meeting notes
Jennifer Claudio |
104-105 |
| General Delivery | |
| What do today's newcomers want?
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — what new TeX users are working on and what hurdles they have] |
106-108 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Type 3 fonts and PDF search in dvips
Tomas Rokicki [Intermediate Plus — encodings for Metafont fonts in dvips output to enable PDF search] |
108-111 |
| The state of XeTeX
Arthur Reutenauer [Introductory — comparison with LuaTeX and prospects for the future] |
112 |
| Hyphenation patterns: Licensing and stability
Arthur Reutenauer [Intermediate — compatibility, updates, and licensing for hyphenation patterns] |
113-114 |
| MacTeX-2019, notification, and hardened runtimes
Richard Koch [Intermediate Plus — automated signing, notarization, entitlements for MacTeX-related packages] |
115-118 |
| Quickref: Common Lisp reference documentation as a stress test for Texinfo
Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — automated building of global documentation for the Common Lisp ecosystem] |
119-125 |
| Combining LaTeX with Python
Uwe Ziegenhagen [Intermediate Plus — both writing (La)TeX from Python and running Python from LaTeX] |
126-128 |
| Parsing complex data formats in LuaTeX with LPEG
Henri Menke [Advanced — introduction to parsing expression grammars in LuaTeX, with example of parsing JSON] |
129-135 |
| Methods | |
| Design into 3D: A system for customizable project designs
William Adams [Intermediate — computer-controlled manufacturing using MetaPost and TeX] |
136-142 |
| Electronic Documents | |
| The design of the HINT file format
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate Plus — a new TeX output format intended for on-screen reading, including reflowing and repaging on demand] |
143-146 |
| TeXFolio—a framework to typeset XML documents using TeX
Rishi T, CV Rajagopal, CV Radhakrishnan [Intermediate — overview of workflow and features of the cloud-based texfolio.org] |
147-149 |
| Neptune—a proofing framework for LaTeX authors
Aravind Rajendran, Rishi T, CV Rajagopal [Intermediate — features of this web-based proofing and editing program] |
150-152 |
| LaTeX | |
| The LaTeX release workflow and the LaTeX dev formats
Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate Plus — regression testing, user testing, and new pdflatex-dev etc. formats] |
153-156 |
| Accessibility in the LaTeX kernel—experiments in Tagged PDF
Chris Rowley, Ulrike Fischer, Frank Mittelbach [Intermediate — the experimental tagpdf package and plans for generation of accessible PDF by LaTeX] |
157-158 |
| Creating commented editions with LaTeX—the commedit package
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — making teacher's and student's books from one source] |
159-162 |
| Creating and automating exams with LaTeX & friends
Uwe Ziegenhagen [Intermediate — customized exams, grading, and variable question generation with Python] |
163-166 |
| Bibliographies | |
| BibTeX-based dataset generation for training citation parsers
Sree Harsha Ramesh, Dung Thai, Boris Veytsman, Andrew McCallum [Intermediate — improving citation structure recognition by training with large BibTeX databases] |
167-169 |
| Fonts | |
| FreeType_MF_Module2: Integration of Metafont, GF, and PK inside FreeType
Jaeyoung Choi, Saima Majeed, Ammar Ul Hassan, Geunho Jeong [Advanced — rendering Metafont, GF, and PK fonts on demand from within FreeType] |
170-178 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Evolutionary changes in Persian and Arabic scripts to accommodate the printing press, typewriting, and computerized word processing
Behrooz Parhami [Intermediate — concise overview of Arabic/Persian typesetting, typewriting, and modern digital display] |
179-186 |
| The unreasonable effectiveness of pattern generation
Petr Sojka, Ondřej Sojka [Intermediate Plus — developing a free word list and improved hyphenation patterns for the Czech language] |
187-193 |
| Improving Hangul to English translation for optical character recognition (OCR)
Emily Park, Jennifer Claudio [Intermediate — investigation of a gray ratio method to distinguish English syllables in Korean from true Korean] |
194-195 |
| A glance at CJK support with XeTeX and LuaTeX
Antoine Bossard [Advanced — reasonable Chinese/Japanese/Korean typesetting with minimal code] |
196-201 |
| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2019 abstracts
Amine Anane, Takuto Asakura, Erik Braun, Jennifer Claudio, Emily Ha, David Fuchs, Federico Garcia-De Castro, Shakthi Kannan, Doug McKenna, Frank Mittelbach, Ross Moore, Shreevatsa R, Yusuke Terada Videos for accessibility talks. |
201-203 |
| MAPS: Contents of issue 49 (2019) | 204-205 |
| ConTeXt Group Journal 2018 | 205 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 206-207 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 207 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 208 |