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Front cover   c1 
Inside front cover   c2 
Contents ordered by difficulty   c3 
Title page   1 
Editorial information   2 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   2 
 
General Delivery
From the president   (doi) 
  Arthur Rosendahl      [Introductory — What's in a TeX?] 		 3 
Editorial comments   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton      [Introductory — typography and TeX news]
    Changing of the guard: Robin Laakso retiring as TUG Executive Director;     Errata: TUGboat 44:2;     Errata: TUGboat 44:3;     The (effective) end of comp.text.tex;     DEK— Puzzles and ChatGPT;     An admirable use of AI;     Face/Interface conference at Stanford;     Accessibility for MathML 		 4-6 
Bibliography of Niklaus Wirth (1934–2024)   (doi) 
  Nelson Beebe      [Introductory — with notes on Pascal, TeX, and more] 		 6 
 
Typography
Face/Interface 2023 conference: Global type design and human-computer interaction   (doi) 
  Boris Veytsman      [Introductory — report on this two-day conference at Stanford on non-Latin scripts] 		 7-10 
Typographers' Inn   (doi) 
  Peter Flynn      [Introductory — Dashing it off III (em rules reprise); Bookshelves; Afterthought] 		 10-11 
 
Fonts
Variable fonts in LuaTeX, with an introduction to two new fonts: Junicode VF   (doi) 
  Peter S. Baker      [Intermediate — restoring optical scaling to digital fonts, with precise control along multiple design axes] 		 12-17 
dynMath: A PostScript Type 3-based LaTeX package to support extensible mathematical symbols   (doi) 
  Abdelouahad Bayar      [Intermediate Plus — extensible parentheses, braces, etc., while preserving the original design] 		 18-24 
Tracing bitmap fonts in LMTX   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate Plus — from high-resolution bitmaps to Type 3, Type 1 and OpenType, through MetaPost] 		 25-31 
 
Philology
Basic Latin brevigraphs listed in Polonia Typographica Saeculi Sedecimi—Progress report   (doi) 
  Janusz S. Bień      [Advanced — variations of printed glyphs in some early Polish printing] 		 32-44 
Towards an inventory of old print characters: Ungler's Rubricella, a case study—Errata   (doi) 
  Janusz S. Bień      [Advanced — some small errata for the prior article, https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb44-3/tb138bien-rubricella.pdf] 		 44 
 
Tutorials
The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: Tcolorchat!   (doi) 
  Carla Maggi      [Intermediate — step-by-step use of tcolorbox to generate a colored chat transcript] 		 45-51 
 
Accessibility
Enhancing LaTeX to automatically produce tagged and accessible PDF   (doi) 
  Frank Mittelbach, Ulrike Fischer      [Intermediate Plus — background, status, prospects for generating tagged PDF from LaTeX] 		 52-59 
 
LaTeX
Preparing Horizon Europe proposals in LaTeX with heria   (doi) 
  Tristan Miller      [Intermediate — a new class for these complex grant proposals, with motivations, design decisions, real-world use] 		 59-64 
Specifying and populating documents in YAML with lua-placeholders in LaTeX   (doi) 
  Erik Nijenhuis      [Advanced — invoice template implementation with the GTK application GinVoice] 		 65-76 
 
Software & Tools
Building a modern editing environment on Windows around GNU Emacs and AUCTeX   (doi) 
  Arash Esbati      [Intermediate Plus — step-by-step installation of MSYS2, Emacs, and AUCTeX, with practical configuration and usage examples] 		 77-87 
Wikipedia to LaTeX, PDF, EPUB and ODT   (doi) 
  Dirk Hünniger      [Intermediate — many updates to the mediawiki2latex.wmflabs.org service and package] 		 88 
Fast regression testing of TeX packages: Multiprocessing and batching   (doi) 
  Vít Starý Novotný, Marei Peischl      [Intermediate Plus — batch limiting and splitting, developer vs. maintainer use] 		 89-96 
Illustrating finite automata with Grail+ and TikZ   (doi) 
  Alastair May, Taylor J. Smith      [Intermediate Plus — automatic layout of finite automata with the Grail+ Visualizer] 		 97-101 
Including PDF files   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — optimizing sharing of font instances] 		 102-105 
 
Macros
Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨number⟩?   (doi) 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨number⟩] 		 106-109 
Is a given input a valid TeX ⟨dimen⟩?   (doi) 
  Udo Wermuth      [Advanced — plain TeX conditional-like macro to test for a syntactic ⟨dimen⟩] 		 109-112 
 
Graphics
Visualizing the Mandelbrot set with MetaPost   (doi) 
  Max Günther      [Intermediate — complex numbers in MetaPost, and implementing generation of the Mandelbrot set, with optimizations] 		 113-114 
Semi-automated TikZ directed acyclic graphs in R   (doi) 
  Travis Stenborg      [Intermediate — brief tutorial on using the causalDisco R package to generate DAGs] 		 115-116 
Nodes and edges with MetaPost: The MetaGraph environment   (doi) 
  Federico García De Castro      [Advanced — general-purpose programming with data sets of nodes and edges] 		 117-124 
Euclidean geometry with tkz-elements and tkz-euclide   (doi) 
  Alain Matthes      [Advanced — construction of precise geometric figures, using Lua for calculation] 		 125-133 
Unusual bitmaps   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate Plus — making vector graphics and plots from bitmaps with potrace] 		 134-144 
 
Electronic Documents
Signing PDF files   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — methods and representation of cryptographic signatures in PDF] 		 145-149 
 
Hints & Tricks
Computer Modern shape curiosities   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — differing design choices in different CM variants] 		 149 
Radical delimiters   (doi) 
  Hans Hagen, Mikael P. Sundqvist      [Intermediate — generalizing the extensibility of radicals] 		 150-151 
The treasure chest   (doi) 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2023–April 2024] 		 151-153 
Production notes   (doi) 
  Karl Berry      [Intermediate Plus — PDF inclusion/concatenation while preserving both internal and external links] 		 154 
 
Reviews
Book reviews: Shift Happens, by Marcin Wichary   (doi) 
  Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, Boris Veytsman      [Reports and notices — a monumental history of keyboards, with sample of the companion Gorton Perfected font]
         See the TUG books page for all book reviews and discounts. 		 155 
 
Abstracts
Die TeXnische Komödie: issues 3–1/2024   156-157 
La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 51 (2023)   158 
Zpravodaj: issue 2023/3–4   159 
 
TUG Business
TUG financial statements for 2023   (doi) 
  Karl Berry  		 160 
 
News & Announcements
TeX conferences and lectures   161 
 
Cartoon
Comic: Space typography 
  Randall Munroe  		 161 
 
News
Calendar   162 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   163-164 
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