The Communications of
the TeX Users Group
TUGboat 45:2, 2024
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| Complete issue 45:2 as one pdf (15mb)
Videos for all talks. |
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| Front cover | |
| Inside front cover | |
| Contents ordered by difficulty | |
| Title page | |
| TUG 2024 | |
| TUG 2024 conference information | |
| TUG 2024 conference program | |
| TUG 2024 in Prague
(doi)
Mitchell Gerrard |
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| TUG 2024 Annual General Meeting notes
(doi)
Klaus Höppner |
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| TUG Business | |
| Institutional members | |
| Accessibility | |
| Easy colorblind-safe typesetting: General guidelines and a helpful LaTeX package
(doi)
Simon Pfahler [Intermediate — examples of bad and good color schemes, rules to follow, and the colorblind package] |
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| Bridging scientific publication accessibility: LaTeX–markup–PDF–alignment
(doi)
Changxu Duan [Intermediate — using color-based alignment, LaTeX Rainbow, and other tools to create accessible PDFs] |
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| TeX (Live) and accessibility at arXiv
(doi)
Norbert Preining [Intermediate — using TeX on the arXiv corpus of millions of documents; accessibility improvements via HTML] |
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| Legal and cultural landscape of mathematics accessibility in the United States: 2024
(doi)
Jeffrey Kuan [Introductory — historical and current state of legal accessibility requirements] |
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| Multilingual Document Processing | |
| Extending Peter Flynn's bookshelf package for multilanguage libraries
(doi)
Boris Veytsman [Intermediate — using many fonts supporting many languages in one document] |
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| Literate Programming | |
| Holon programming regained
(doi)
Mitchell Gerrard [Intermediate — unearthing the predecessor(s) of Knuth's WEB system of literate programming] |
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| Software & Tools | |
| On-demand production of TeX DVDs: first feedback
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Jérémy Just [Introductory — production of DVDs on request from https://tug.org/dvd] |
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| Profiling TeX input files
(doi)
Martin Ruckert [Intermediate Plus — speeding up TeX macros by finding most-used source lines, call graphs, etc.] |
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| Markdown themes in practice
(doi)
Vít Starý Novotný [Advanced — tailor presentations of YAML and Markdown, with examples in cross-format expl3] |
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| A large-scale format compliance checker for TeX Font Metrics
(doi)
Didier Verna [Intermediate Plus — a TFM reader, the Common Lisp condition system for exceptions, and validating TeX Live fonts] Errata: section and program references to TFtoPL and PLtoTF have been corrected from the printed version. |
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| Creation of LaTeX documents using a cloud-based pipeline
(doi)
Marei Peischl, Marcel Krüger, Oliver Kopp [Advanced — using build servers with automated pipelines, on GitHub, GitLab, and ForgeJo] |
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| Humanities | |
| A short note on typesetting Latin verse scansion with LaTeX and LuaLaTeX
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Antoine Bossard [Intermediate Plus — handling diacritical marks of prosody in Latin verse] |
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| Accessibility | |
| LaTeX Tagged PDF project progress report for summer 2024
(doi)
Frank Mittelbach, Ulrike Fischer [Intermediate Plus — discussion of PDF vs. HTML, large examples, math tagging status] |
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| LaTeX | |
| LaTeX news, issue 39, June 2024
(doi)
LaTeX Project Team [Intermediate — tagged PDF news; mark enhancements; xtemplate in format; many fixes] |
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| Web page to PDF conversion with Rmodepdf: Leveraging LuaLaTeX for e-book reader-friendly documents
(doi)
Michal Hoftich [Intermediate — responsive design in LaTeX for e-books: font size, line length, fully automated line breaking, and more] |
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| Navigating common challenges in manuscript submission: Insights for authors and publishers using Elsarticle and CAS packages
(doi)
Rishikesan T, Apu V, Rajagopal CV, Radhakrishnan CV [Introductory — features and benefits of using standard publisher classes, with Elsevier as the case study] |
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| Publishing | |
| Making BachoTeX proceedings—extended version
(doi)
Jean-Michel Hufflen [Advanced — autogenerating tables of contents and more using Scheme, Ruby, make, etc.] |
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| Full spectrum litigator: A TeX-themed workflow for a small litigation law firm
(doi)
Andrew G. Watters [Intermediate Plus — using the LAMP stack plus TeX for document workflow in a law firm] |
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| Hyphenation | |
| Expanding hyphenation patterns across Slavic languages
(doi)
Ondřej Sojka [Intermediate Plus — converting public word lists to speech and IPA for cross-language hyphenation] |
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| Fonts | |
| Packaging Arsenal fonts for (Xe/Lua)LaTeX
(doi)
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — discussion and examples of this award-winning Ukrainian font] |
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| dynMath: Underlying principles of the design
(doi)
Abdelouahad Bayar [Intermediate Plus — interaction of LaTeX and PostScript Type 3 fonts; calculation of parameters for dynamic sizing] |
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| Abstracts | |
| TUG 2024 abstracts
(doi)
Jim Fowler, Vincent Goulet, Hàn Thế Thành, Sarah Lang, Frank Mittelbach, Wim Obbels, Martin Ruckert, samcarter, Bart Snapp, Tyge Tiessen, Jan Vaněk, Didier Verna, Joseph Wright |
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| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 2/2024 | |
| La Lettre GUTenberg: issue 52 (2024) | |
| MAPS: issues 53–54 (2023–2024) | |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG bursary committee report for 2024
(doi)
Jim Hefferon |
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| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | |
| Cartoon | |
| Comics: Disaster area; Fontains
John Atkinson |
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| Advertisements | |
| TUG 2024 sponsors: Overleaf; STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd | |
| News | |
| Calendar | |