The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 36:3, 2015
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| Complete issue 36:3 as one pdf (41mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 177 |
| Editorial information | 178 |
| General Delivery | |
| From the Board of Directors
TUG Board |
179 |
| Editorial comments
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] Help wanted—The UK TeX FAQ; B&H and the Wingdings font; Choice of font does make a difference; Safe TeX; More help wanted: Names of Unicode symbols in languages other than English; What is a template? Still more help wanted: The LaTeX Wikibook |
180–181 |
| Adrian Frutiger, 1928–2015
Norbert Preining |
182–183 |
| Thomas Koch, 1964–2014
Joachim Schrod |
184 |
| DANTE e.V. 2015 meeting reports
Stefan Kottwitz |
185–187 |
| Education | |
| TeX in schools: Just Say Yes!
Simon Laube [Introductory — benefits of using LaTeX in schools, for students and teachers] |
188–189 |
| Fonts | |
| Smoky letters
Linus Romer [Intermediate — randomized but still elegant capital D for a copperplate `Danke'] |
190 |
| About the DK versions of Lucida
Charles Bigelow [Intermediate — squarish capital `O' for Don Knuth, in Lucida Grande Mono and Lucida Console] Another historical article including use of superellipses was found after this issue was published: One approach to computer assisted letter design, by H.W. Mergler and P.M. Vargo. Journal of Typographic Research, Vol.2 (No.4), October 1968, pp.299-322. See figures 9 and 10. (The same issue includes articles by Hermann Zapf, John Seybold, and others.) |
191–199 |
| Publishing | |
| History of cookbooks
Taco Hoekwater [Introductory — from ancient Greece to allrecipes.com] |
200–207 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
Peter Flynn [Intermediate — usability of digital typography; hierarchy and balance; Emacs on Android] |
208–209 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 22, January 2015
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — new LaTeX2e bug-fix policy, updates to the kernel, hyperlinked documentation] |
210–211 |
| LaTeX news, issue 23, October 2015
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — enhanced support for LuaTeX, more floats and inserts, updated Unicode data, pre-release releases] |
212–213 |
| Introduction to list structures in LaTeX
Thomas Thurnherr [Introductory — basic list usage and packages for additional control] |
214–216 |
| gradstudentresume: A document class for graduate student CVs
Anagha Kumar [Intermediate — a new class for academic CVs, and practical tips on creating classes] |
217–219 |
| Glisterings: Longest string; Marching along; A blank argument; A centered table of contents
Peter Wilson [Intermediate Plus — even/odd arguments, list indexing, memoir toc typesetting, and more] |
220–226 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Chemistry in LaTeX2e—an overview of existing packages and possibilities
Clemens Niederberger [Intermediate Plus — overview of chemmacros, mhchem, chemformula, and more] |
227–233 |
| Automating LaTeX(3) testing
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — continous testing with Travis-CI and a minimal TeX Live] |
234–236 |
| Two applications of SWIGLIB: GraphicsMagick and Ghostscript
Luigi Scarso [Advanced — loading binary modules for performance and generality] |
237–242 |
| Macros | |
| Typesetting the “Begriffsschrift” by Gottlob Frege in plain TeX
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — handling the unusual mathematical notation invented by Frege] |
243–256 |
| GMOA, the `General Manipulation Of Arguments': An extension to the l3expan package of the expl3 bundle and language
Grzegorz Murzynowski [Advanced — a DFA-based generalization of expl3's l3expan] |
257–268 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| Production notes
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — editing Unicode text requiring a special font for PUA characters in Emacs] |
268 |
| The treasure chest
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, March–October 2015] |
269–270 |
| Reviews | |
| An online glossary of typographic terms by Janie Kliever
Boris Veytsman See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
271 |
| Abstracts | |
| GUST: EuroBachoTeX 2014 | 272–273 |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 4/2015 | 273 |
| Cartoon | |
| A summons
Jim Benton |
274 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 274 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 275 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 276 |