The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 30:2, 2009
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Accumulated lists across all of TUGboat: by author/people, by category/keyword, by title.
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| Complete issue 30:2 as one pdf (12mb) | |
| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2009 conference information
thanks, participants, program, sponsors, photos. |
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| General Delivery | |
| Profile of Eitan Gurari (1947–2009)
David Walden [Introductory — the creator of TeX4ht and other projects, in memoriam] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX class writing for wizard apprentices
Boris Veytsman (orcid) [Intermediate — compatibility, interfaces, tips, and experiences in writing LaTeX classes] |
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| LuaTeX for the LaTeX user: An introduction
Arthur Rosendahl [Intermediate — brief note on some notable LaTeX packages providing basic LuaTeX support] |
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| Accessibility | |
| Ongoing efforts to generate “tagged PDF” using pdfTeX
Ross Moore (orcid) [Advanced — extending pdfTeX and LaTeX to support accessible PDF] |
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| Education | |
| The EduTeX TUG working group
Frank Quinn [Introductory — clever new machines, clever new software, same old brains] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| Becoming a CTAN mirror
Jim Hefferon [Intermediate — steps for helping the community by running a CTAN mirror] |
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| TeX Live 2009 news
Karl Berry (orcid) [Introductory — brief summary of notable changes in the TeX Live 2009 software release] |
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| Getting started with plasTeX
Tim Arnold [Introductory — introduction to plasTeX: converting LaTeX to HTML, DocBook, plain text, and more] |
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| LuaTeX: Halfway to version 1
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — overview of past, present, and future of LuaTeX] |
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| LuaTeX and ConTeXt: Where we stand
Hans Hagen [Intermediate Plus — taking stock of current LuaTeX and ConTeXt, with performance comparisons] |
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| ProofCheck: Writing and checking complete proofs in LaTeX
Bob Neveln, Bob Alps [Advanced — a system for writing formal proofs in (La)TeX and automatically checking them] |
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| Publishing | |
| TeX People: The TUG interviews project and book
Karl Berry (orcid), David Walden [Intermediate — the interviewing process, using m4 to create HTML or LaTeX, publication decisions] |
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| Self-publishing: Experiences and opinions
David Walden [Introductory — printing, distribution, economics, and other aspects of self-publishing] |
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| Graphics | |
| Introduction to MetaPost
Klaus Höppner [Introductory — focusing on the unique features of MetaPost, such as solving linear equations] |
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| A TikZ tutorial: Generating graphics in the spirit of TeX
Andrew Mertz, William Slough [Intermediate — tutorial overview of this major graphics package] |
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| Medical pedigrees: Typography and interfaces
Boris Veytsman (orcid), Leyla Akhmadeeva [Intermediate — historical and new typesetting of medical pedigrees] |
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| Fonts | |
| A first look at the TeX Gyre fonts
Jim Hefferon [Introductory — samples and recipes for using the Gyre font collection, especially for math] |
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| Plain TeX and OpenType
Hans Hagen [Intermediate — introduction to facilities for accessing OpenType fonts from plain LuaTeX] |
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| Integrating Unicode and OpenType math in ConTeXt
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate Plus — implementation in LuaTeX of both OpenType and traditional math] |
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| Macros | |
| LuaTeX: A user's perspective
Aditya Mahajan [Intermediate — using Lua to greatly simplify programming in TeX] |
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| Bibliographies | |
| BibTeX meets relational databases
Nelson Beebe [Intermediate Plus — searching large bibliographic collections using SQL databases] |
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| Electronic Documents | |
| TeX as an eBook reader
Kaveh Bazargan [Introductory — report on using TeX for better line breaking and mathematics support on the iPhone] |
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| From distribution to preservation of digital documents
Christian Rossi [Intermediate — issues of conservation of (mostly textual) electronic documents] |
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| Rich media annotations and AcroFLeX
Donald Story [Intermediate Plus — multimedia support in PDF via Acrobat and LaTeX] |
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| Hints & Tricks | |
| Use of the \write18 feature for composing indexes
Claudio Beccari [Intermediate Plus — automatically keeping indexes up to date via external command execution] |
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| Glisterings: Reprise; repetition; rectangular text
Peter Wilson |
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| Peter Wilson's Herries Press packages
Will Robertson [Introductory — a new maintainer for most of Wilson's packages, and descriptions thereof] |
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| Abstracts | |
| Biuletyn GUST: Contents of issues 25–26 (2008–2009) | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issue 2009/3 | |
| Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 16(1) (2006) and 19(1–2) (2009) | |
| TUG 2009 abstracts
Jin-Hwan Cho, Paulo Ney de Souza, Idris Hamid, Morten Høgholm, Chris Rowley |
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| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| News | |
| TUG 2010 announcement | |
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