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TUGboat 33:2, 2012

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Complete issue 33:2 as one pdf (6.2mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   129 
 
TUG 2012
TUG 2012 conference information 
    participants, sponsors, thanks
 130 
TUG 2012: A first-time attendee 
  David Latchman 
    report on the conference content and locale
 132 
Roundtable discussion: TeX consulting      [Introductory — background information on and panel discussion with TeX consultants]  138 
 
Typography
My Boston: Some printing and publishing history 
  David Walden      [Introductory — Boston-area printing activities from the city's founding to the present]
 146 
Towards evidence-based typography: First results 
  Boris Veytsman, Leyla Akhmadeeva      [Introductory — no statistically significant difference in reading comprehension found between serif and sans serif fonts]
 156 
TeX and music: An update on TeXmuse 
  Federico Garcia-De Castro      [Intermediate Plus — musical spelling, musical thinking, musical typesetting]
 158 
 
LaTeX
LaTeX3 news, issue 8 
  LaTeX Project Team      [Introductory — Extended floating point support; regular expressions; separating internal and external code; continual revolution—the `small bang']
 165 
Preparing your thesis in LaTeX 
  David Latchman      [Intermediate — step-by-step motivation for commonly used packages]
 167 
A university thesis class: Automation and its pitfalls 
  Peter Flynn      [Intermediate — reasons and methods for creating Yet Another Thesis Class]
 172 
LaTeX source from word processors 
  Bart Childs      [Intermediate — converting to a maintainable LaTeX source with Emacs, OOo, etc.]
 178 
 
Software & Tools
The MacTeX install package for OSX 
  Richard Koch      [Intermediate — current release and past history of MacTeX]
 184 
TeX and friends on a Pad 
  Boris Veytsman      [Intermediate — compiling and using the TeX system on an Android tablet]
 192 
YAWN—A TeX-enabled workflow for project estimation 
  Pavneet Arora      [Intermediate — discussion of YAML specifications and the MVC approach]
 196 
Star TeX: The Next Generation 
  Didier Verna      [Intermediate Plus — proposing a homogenous reimplementation of TeX in Common Lisp]
 199 
Adapting ProofCheck to the author's needs 
  Bob Neveln, Bob Alps      [Advanced — customizing the ProofCheck software for different logics]
 209 
 
Graphics
Approaching Asymptote 
  Michael Doob, Jim Hefferon      [Intermediate Plus — 2D and 3D examples of mathematical graphics]
 213 
 
Macros
The joy of \csname...\endcsname 
  Amy Hendrickson      [Advanced — introduction to and many examples using this fundamental TeX primitive]
 219 
 
Abstracts
TUG 2012 abstracts 
  William Cheswick, Federico Garcia-De Castro, Troy Henderson, Sherif Mansour, Frank Mittelbach, Steve Peter, Norbert Preining, Will Robertson, Christina Thiele 
 225 
Die TeXnische Komödie: Contents of issues 2–3/2012   227 
ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 13 (2012)   228 
MAPS: Contents of issue 42 (2011)   229 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, April 2012–August 2012]
 230 
 
Book Reviews
Book review: About more alphabets: The types of Hermann Zapf, by Jerry Kelly 
  Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this book on Zapf's life and work]
 232 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   233 
 
TUG Business
TUG institutional members   235 
 
News
TeX Collection 2012   235 
Calendar   236 

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