The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 41:3, 2020
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 41:3 as one pdf (17mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 257 |
| Editorial information | 258 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 258 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the president
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — the paradox of early adoption; moving free software forward] |
259 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Passings: Janusz Nowacki, Ed Benguiat, Ron Graham; |
260-262 |
| How TeX changed my life
Michael Barr [Introductory — math writing, typing, and typesetting] |
263-264 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Introductory — To print or not to print; Centering (again); New device driver for old format; What's in a name] |
265-268 |
| Fonts | |
| Eye charts in focus: The magic of optotypes
Lorrie Frear [Intermediate — history and design of the optotypes used on eye charts] |
269-274 |
| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| The Non-Latin scripts & typography
Kamal Mansour [Intermediate — examples of the wide range of typesetting and font requirements beyond Latin] |
275-280 |
| Tutorials | |
| Using DocStrip for multiple document variants
Matthew Leingang [Intermediate — step-by-step example of homework assignments with questions, solutions, and more] |
281-285 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 32, October 2020
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — xparse in the format; hook management system; changes in graphics, tools, amsmath, babel] |
286-291 |
| LaTeX Tagged PDF—A blueprint for a large project
Frank Mittelbach, Chris Rowley [Intermediate Plus — background and task summary of an extended feasibility study on the LaTeX web site] Feasibility study. |
292-298 |
| Functions and expl3
Enrico Gregorio [Advanced — an introduction to LaTeX3 programming with functions and variables] |
299-307 |
| bib2gls: selection, cross-references and locations
Nicola Talbot [Intermediate Plus — selecting, grouping, referencing glossary items with LaTeX's index facilities] |
308-317 |
| Making Markdown into a microwave meal
Vít Novotný [Intermediate Plus — freezing Markdown, Minted, and BibLaTeX output for single-run processing] |
318-320 |
| Software & Tools | |
| User-defined Type 3 fonts in LuaTeX
Hans Hagen [Advanced — constructing a font on the fly that can reference images, other fonts, graphics] |
320-323 |
| Graphics | |
| Data display, plots and graphs
Peter Wilson [Intermediate — simple example of using tables, scatter plots, line graphs, histograms] |
324-326 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Short report on the state of LuaTeX, 2020
Luigi Scarso [Intermediate — development status and comparison of LuaTeX and its relatives: LuaHBTeX, LuaJITTeX and LuaJITHBTeX] |
327-328 |
| Distinguishing 8-bit characters and Japanese characters in (u)pTeX
Hironori Kitagawa [Advanced — analysis and solutions for differing interpretations of byte sequences] |
329-334 |
| Keyword scanning
Hans Hagen [Advanced — peculiarities of parsing keywords, catcodes, and performance] |
335-337 |
| Representation of macro parameters
Hans Hagen [Advanced — considers making unused arguments more efficient and tracing output more consistent] |
337-340 |
| TeXdoc online—a web interface for serving TeX documentation
Island of TeX [Intermediate Plus — HTTP API for texdoc and CTAN topics] |
341-342 |
| MMTeX: Creating a minimal and modern TeX distribution for GNU/Linux
Michal Vlasák [Intermediate Plus — a small TeX distribution with LuaTeX and OpTeX that integrates easily on modern systems] |
343-345 |
| UTF-8 installations of TeX
Igor Liferenko [Advanced — changing TeX's encoding to support reading/writing Unicode] |
346-347 |
| Macros | |
| OpTeX—A new generation of Plain TeX
Petr Olšák [Intermediate Plus — modern LuaTeX format with full Unicode support] |
348-354 |
| Reviews | |
| Book reviews: Robert Granjon, letter-cutter, and Granjon's Flowers, by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Charles Bigelow [Reports and notices — detailed review of these two books from Oak Knoll Press on 17th century type designer Robert Granjon] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
355-357 |
| Book review: Glisterings, by Peter Wilson
Boris Veytsman [Reports and notices — review of this volume of collected columns from TUGboat, published by TUG] |
358-359 |
| Historical review of TeX3
Peter Flynn [Introductory — a 1991 review of TeX, written for those experienced in other typesetting systems] |
360-367 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2020] |
368 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG 2021 election
TUG Elections committee See the TUG election page for all information. |
369 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 370-371 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 372 |