The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 44:3, 2023
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| Complete issue 44:3 as one pdf (58mb) | |
| Front cover | c1 |
| Inside front cover | c2 |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | c3 |
| Title page | 329 |
| Editorial information | 330 |
| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | 330 |
| General Delivery | |
| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TeX news] |
331-333 |
| Typography | |
| Typographers' Inn
(doi)
Peter Flynn [Introductory — Identifying a typeface; Dashing it off II; Discord for the LaTeX community; Afterthought] |
334-335 |
| Fonts | |
| A short history of Greek type design before the digital era
(doi)
George D. Matthiopoulos [Intermediate — overview of Greek type from its beginning through phototypesetting, with many illustrations] |
336-363 |
| Philology | |
| Towards an inventory of old print characters: Ungler's Rubricella, a case study
(doi)
Janusz S. Bień [Advanced — character inventory of a 16th century Polish printer; using TeX and tools for linguistic research] Several errata are available. |
364-375 |
| Graphics | |
| A TikZ rendering of the Arecibo message
(doi)
Travis Stenborg [Introductory — tutorial on rendering raster data with TikZ] |
375-377 |
| A pattern from the Alhambra
(doi)
Laurence Finston [Intermediate Plus — using 3DLDF to recreate a complex pattern, including perspective drawings and color replacement] |
378-389 |
| Accessibility | |
| Using artificial-intelligence tools to make LaTeX content accessible to blind readers
(doi)
Gerd Kortemeyer [Intermediate Plus — using GPT-4 to narrate typical LaTeX scientific documents] |
390-399 |
| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 38, November 2023
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — more on tagged PDF; hooks, sockets, and plugs; document properties; code improvements; more] |
400-403 |
| Markdown 3 at TUG 2023: Reflections from the Q&A session
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný [Intermediate Plus — Markdown vs. LaTeX, support for Markdown flavors, writing slides with Markdown] |
404-405 |
| Software & Tools | |
| Simplifying LaTeX with ORG-mode in Emacs
(doi)
Emmanuele F. Somma [Intermediate Plus — using lightweight ORG markup with export to LaTeX, with extensive examples] |
406-420 |
| Methods | |
| Plain TeX's \ooalign
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — detailed explanations and examples of building glyphs and more with \ooalign] |
421-426 |
| Vertical alignments in plain TeX
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — introduction to, macros for, and useful examples of \valign] |
427-440 |
| Bibliographies | |
| JabRef: BibTeX-based literature management software
(doi)
Oliver Kopp, Carl Christian Snethlage, Christoph Schwentker [Intermediate Plus — comprehensive tool supporting web search, import/export, systematic literature reviews, and emphasizing contributions] |
441-447 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April–October 2023] |
447-449 |
| Production notes
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate Plus — PDF inclusion/concatenation while preserving both internal and external links] |
449 |
| Reviews | |
| Book review: The LaTeX Companion, 3rd edition, by Frank Mittelbach with Ulrike Fischer (PDF edition)
(doi)
John D Lamb [Reports and notices — review of the electronic publication of this monumental LaTeX book] See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. |
450-451 |
| Book review: LaTeX Graphics with TikZ, by Stefan Kottwitz
(doi)
samcarter [Reports and notices — review of this well-illustrated book on TikZ, for all levels of users] |
452 |
| Book review: Godine at Fifty, by David R. Godine
(doi)
Karl Berry [Reports and notices — review of this retrospective of Godine's remarkable publishing career] |
453 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 454-455 |
| le-tex GmbH [Reports and notices — TUG 2023 sponsor] | 455 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 456 |