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TUGboat 33:3, 2012

printing press
 

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Complete issue 33:3 as one pdf (9.8mb) 
Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   237 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   238 
 
Editorial information   238 
 
General Delivery
Ab epistulis 
  Steve Peter      [Introductory — Lucida OpenType; DVD; new printings from Knuth; in memoriam: Dan Carr and Bill Hill]
         In memoriam: Dan Carr, Bill Hill
 239 
Editorial comments 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news]
    New printings of Computers & Typesetting;     Three printing-related symposia;     An open source font from Adobe: Source Sans Pro;     Errata: TUGboat 33:1 and 33:2
 240 
KOMA-Script comes of age 
  Markus Kohm      [Introductory — informal history of KOMA-Script's first eighteen years]
 241 
Almost 30 years of using TeX 
  Christina Thiele      [Introductory — reflections on the TeX world through the years at a small typesetting house]
 245 
 
LaTeX
Changing the font size in LaTeX 
  Thomas Thurnherr      [Introductory — document-wide and local methods for changing font size]
 263 
The calculator and calculus packages: Arithmetic and functional calculations inside LaTeX 
  Robert Fuster      [Intermediate — extensive new packages for mathematical computations, including functions and derivatives]
 265 
The xtemplate package: An example 
  Clemens Niederberger      [Intermediate Plus — illustrating the concept of the LaTeX3 xtemplate with an example]
 272 
A patent application design flow in LaTeX and LyX 
  Peter Pupalaikis      [Intermediate — support for US patent applications, especially the required drawings]
 276 
Page style tricks with scrpage2 
  Markus Kohm      [Intermediate Plus — custom page styles for LaTeX, with examples from KOMA-Script]
 282 
 
Expanding Horizons
CrafTeX: Applying TeX, MetaPost, and friends in crafts 
  Mari Voipio      [Introductory — scrapbooking, cardcraft, tablet weaving, historical (re)creation, and more]
 285 
 
Philology
MayaPS: Maya hieroglyphics with (La)TeX 
  Bruno Delprat, Stepan Orevkov      [Intermediate Plus — flexible PostScript-based system for typesetting Maya]
 289 
Experiences with Arabic font development 
  Sherif Mansour, Hossam Fahmy      [Intermediate Plus — development and debugging of the Metafont-based AlQalam Arabic script]
 295 
 
Fonts
The fonts we choose 
  Boris Veytsman      [Introductory — essay on the importance of font choices]
 299 
Using TeX Gyre Pagella OpenType Math 
  Herbert Voß      [Intermediate — example of loading an OpenType math font in XeTeX and LuaTeX]
 301 
OpenType math font development: Progress and challenges 
  Ulrik Vieth      [Intermediate — survey of available OpenType math fonts and technology]
 302 
From drawn to filled paths 
  Linus Romer      [Advanced — sequence of examples of `o' using all pen and outline methods]
 309 
 
Publishing
Glisterings: Cutout windows 
  Peter Wilson 
 313 
 
Macros
Stubborn leaders and juggling boxes: A slightly unusual table of contents 
  Boris Veytsman      [Advanced — methodology of a macro for leaders at the top of a box]
 316 
 
Hints & Tricks
The treasure chest 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, August–October 2012]
 319 
 
Book Reviews
Book review: PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TeX and LaTeX, by Herbert Voß 
  Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — review of this reference on PSTricks, the principal maintainer]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts.
 320 
Book review: Just My Type: A book about fonts, by Simon Garfield 
  David Walden      [Reports and notices — review of this book of varied essays on fonts]
 322 
 
Abstracts
Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 56 (2011) (simultaneously published as MAPS 42 (2011) and Zpravodaj 2–4/2011)   324 
ArsTeXnica: Contents of issue 14 (2012)   325 
The PracTeX Journal: Contents of issue 2012-1   326 
 
Letters
PUB and pre-TeX history 
  Donald Knuth      [Introductory — note about an early computer typesetting program by Larry Tesler]
 328 
 
News
TUG 2013 announcement   328 
Calendar   329 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   330 
 
TUG Business
TUG 2013 election 
  Barbara Beeton 
 332 

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