The Communications of the
TeX Users Group
TUGboat 43:1, 2022
The Communications of the
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| Complete issue 43:1 as one pdf (3mb) | |
| 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)
Boris Veytsman [Introductory — on the use of inventions for war and peace] |
3 |
| Editorial comments
(doi)
Barbara Beeton [Introductory — typography and TUGboat news] |
4-6 |
| Robin Fairbairns and UK TUG
(doi)
Jonathan Fine [Introductory — personal remembrance of Robin] |
6 |
| The last decade at GUTenberg
(doi)
Jacques André, Patrick Bideault, Denis Bitouzé, Michel Bovani, Thierry Bouche, Maxime Chupin, Daniel Flipo, Yvon Henel [Introductory — response to article by J. Just; background and activities of GUTenberg] |
7-9 |
| LaTeX | |
| Markdown 2.15.0: What's new?
(doi)
Vít Novotný, Dominik Rehák, Michal Hoftich, Tereza Vrabcová [Intermediate — new features both for Markdown writers and coders of templates and solutions] |
10-15 |
| Tutorials | |
| The DuckBoat—Beginners' Pond: CDs, but not Compact Disks
(doi)
Carla Maggi [Intermediate Plus — making commutative diagrams with the tikz-cd package] |
16-22 |
| Graphics | |
| Making open source textbooks, and diagrams with AlDraTex
(doi)
Seth Bergmann [Intermediate — collaborative textbooks and graphics with [Al]DraTex.sty] |
23-27 |
| Methods | |
| Automatically removing widows and orphans with lua-widow-control
(doi)
Max Chernoff [Advanced — automated removal of widow and orphan lines, without stretching, in all Lua formats] |
28-39 |
| Software & Tools | |
| l3build: The beginner's guide
(doi)
Joseph Wright [Intermediate Plus — testing, preparing, installing, and uploading releases of packages] |
40-43 |
| bib2gls: standalone entries and repeated lists (a little book of poisons)
(doi)
Nicola Talbot [Advanced — glossary definitions in documents; reordering glossary entries in multiple ways] |
44-58 |
| Macros | |
| Transparent file I/O using the original TeX program and the plain TeX format
(doi)
Udo Wermuth [Advanced — require user confirmation on \input and other operations] |
59-72 |
| Reviews | |
| Book reviews: LaTeX Beginner's Guide, second edition, by Stefan Kottwitz
(doi)
Sarah Lang [Reports and notices — review of this introduction for today's new LaTeX users] |
73-74 |
| Hints & Tricks | |
| The treasure chest
(doi)
Karl Berry [Intermediate — new CTAN packages, October 2021–April 2022] |
75-77 |
| TeX Live 2022 news
(doi)
Karl Berry [Reports and notices — brief summary of known issues in the TL'22 release] |
77 |
| Abstracts | |
| Die TeXnische Komödie: issue 4/2021–1/2022 | 78-79 |
| Zpravodaj: issue 2021/1–4
Errata: in the printed TUGboat, the `TeX in a nutshell' article is incorrectly attributed to Petr Sojka; the author is Petr Olšák. |
79 |
| TUG Business | |
| TUG Annual General Meeting Procedures
(doi)
TUG Bylaws committee |
80 |
| TUG financial statements for 2021
(doi)
Karl Berry |
81 |
| Advertisements | |
| TeX consulting and production services | 82-83 |
| TeXnology Inc. | 83 |
| News | |
| Calendar | 84 |