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TUGboat 39:1, 2018

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Complete issue 39:1 as one pdf (5.2mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   
Editorial information   
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   
 
General Delivery
From the president 
  Boris Veytsman (orcid     [Introductory — conferences, funding, accessibility, education]
 
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    Birthdays: Donald E. Knuth, Gudrun Zapf von Hesse;     Staszek Wawrykiewicz, RIP;     Goodbye Glisterings, hello Duckboat;     A new “dual” typeface: visible and touchable;     40 years ago …;     Hyphens, UK style
 4-5 
Hyphenation exception log 
  Barbara Beeton      [Reports and notices — update for missed and incorrect U.S. English hyphenations]
 5-6 
In memoriam: Staszek Wawrykiewicz (1953–2018) 
  Norbert Preining 
 
TeX as a path, a talk given at Donald Knuth's 80th birthday celebration symposium 
  Yannis Haralambous      [Intermediate — the impact of TeX: technical, esthetic, and personal]
 8-15 
TUG is TeX users helping each other 
  Jonathan Fine      [Introductory — brief review of TUG's status and purpose]
 16 
LaTeX and Jupyter, TikZ and Vega 
  Jonathan Fine      [Introductory — analogy of TeX and HTML publishing languages]
 16 
 
Typography
Typographers' Inn 
  Peter Flynn      [Intermediate — Fonts and faces and families; XeLaTeX]
 17-18 
Type designer Nina Stössinger speaks at 3rd Annual Updike Prize event 
  David Walden      [Introductory — report of vibrant presentation on “Looking & Making & Questioning”]
 19 
 
LaTeX
CTAN quiz 
  Gerd Neugebauer      [Introductory — a tour by url through several notable features of CTAN]
 20 
 
Tutorials
The DuckBoat—News from TeX.SE: The Morse code of TikZ 
  Carla Maggi      [Intermediate — history of duck mania, extended TikZ example]
 21-26 
 
Cartoon
Comic: Prefixation 
  John Atkinson 
 27 
 
Software & Tools
From Lua 5.2 to 5.3 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — handling complications from new integer representations of numbers]
 27-29 
TeXing in Emacs 
  Marcin Borkowski      [Intermediate — Emacs basics, built-in features for text, customizations, extensions]
 30-36 
Tutorial: Using external C libraries with the LuaTeX FFI 
  Henri Menke      [Advanced — step-by-step example linking the GNU Scientific Library (GSL) to LuaTeX, and pgfplots]
 37-40 
Executing TeX in Lua: Coroutines 
  Hans Hagen      [Advanced — efficiently executing TeX inside Lua loops]
 41-43 
 
LaTeX
New rules for reporting bugs in the LaTeX core software 
  Frank Mittelbach (orcid), LaTeX Project Team      [Introductory — as maintained by the LaTeX Project: use the latexbug package and github.com/latex3/latex2e]
 44-47 
LaTeX news, issue 28, April 2018 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Intermediate — A new home for LaTeX2e sources; Bug reports for core LaTeX2e; UTF-8: the new default input encoding; A general rollback concept; Integration of remreset and chngcntr packages; Testing for undefined commands; Changes to packages]
 48-50 
TeX.StackExchange cherry picking: expl3 
  Enrico Gregorio      [Advanced — extended examples of expl3 programming: lists, strings, macros, graphics]
 51-59 
 
Graphics
Three-dimensional graphics with TikZ/PSTricks and the help of Geogebra 
  Luciano Battaia      [Intermediate Plus — 3D examples plotted by Geogebra and typeset with TeX]
 60-68 
ConTeXt nodes: commutative diagrams and related graphics 
  Alan Braslau, Idris Hamid, Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — introduction to and graduated examples of diagrams with MetaPost and ConTeXt]
    article source
 69-80 
 
Methods
TeX's “additional demerits” parameters 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — analysis of \adjdemerits, \finalhyphendemerits, \doublehyphendemerits]
 81-87 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry (orcid     [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2017–April 2018]
 88-89 
 
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie 4/2017–1/2018   90 
Zpravodaj: Contents of issues 2017/1–4   91 
 
TUG Business
TUG financial statements for 2017 
  Karl Berry (orcid
 92 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   93-94 
 
News & Announcements
Production notes 
  Karl Berry (orcid     [Reports and notices — page numbers as links in TUGboat's complete PDF contents]
 94 
TUG 2018 announcement   95 
Calendar   96 

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