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TUGBOAT Volume 35, Number 3 / 2014 TUGBOAT Volume 35, Number 3 / 2014 General Delivery 230 Ab epistulis / Steve Peter 231 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton TEX entomology; An alternative to tangle and weave; More Lucida fonts; More from Chuck Bigelow about Lucida; Erratum: “Online Publishing via pdf2htmlEX”, TUGboat 34:3; Peter Flynn’s Formatting Information updated; Klaus Peters, 1937–2014; Other items worth a look — bibliographies; Geographical trivia: Kolophon 232 A footnote about ‘Oh, oh, zero’ / Donald Knuth 235 Twenty Questions for Donald Knuth (on the occasion of the ePublication of TAOCP) Letters 244 A letter on the persistence of (e)books / Charles Bigelow A L TEX 245 LATEX document class options / Thomas Thurnherr 248 How to influence the position of float environments like figure and table in LATEX? / Frank Mittelbach 255 Placing a full-width insert at the bottom of two columns / Barbara Beeton 256 biblatex variations / Ulrike Fischer 261 Every LATEX document brings new programming issues / David Walden 269 Glisterings: Lining up / Peter Wilson Resources 274 CTAN goes multi-lingual: Additional language support for the Web portal / Gerd Neugebauer Fonts 276 Obyknovennaya Novaya (Ordinary New Face) in METAFONT / Basil Solomykov Multilingual 277 A simple Arabic typesetting system for mixed Latin/Arabic documents: d. ¯ad / Document Processing Yannis Haralambous Software & Tools 284 Visual editing (in a specialized case): prerex / Bob Tennent 287 l3build —A modern Lua test suite for TEX programming / Frank Mittelbach, Will Robertson, LATEX3 team 294 MetaPost path resolution isolated / Taco Hoekwater Macros 297 Typeset MMIX programs with TEX / Udo Wermuth Bibliographies 309 A Citation Style Language (CSL) workshop / Daniel Stender Hints & Tricks 315 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Book Reviews 317 Book review: Practical LATEX, by George Gr¨atzer / William Adams 318 Book review: Apprendre `aprogrammer en TEX, by Christian Tellechea / Jacques Andr´e 319 Book review: The Imitation Game, by Jim Ottaviani and Leland Purvis / Michael Berry 320 Book review: Let’s Learn LATEX, by S. Parthasarathy / Nicola Talbot Abstracts 322 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 2–3/2014 323 Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 57 (2012) TUG Business 230 TUGboat editorial information 323 TEX Development Fund 2013 report 324 TUG 2013 election 325 TUG membership form 326 TUG institutional members Advertisements 326 TEX consulting and production services News 327 TUG 2015 announcement 328 Calendar TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. Steve Peter, President Jim Hefferon∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions Karl Berry∗, Treasurer 2015 dues for individual members will be as follows: ∗ Susan DeMeritt , Secretary Regular members: $105. Barbara Beeton Special rate: $75. Kaja Christiansen The special rate is available to students, seniors, and Michael Doob citizens of countries with modest economies, as de- Steve Grathwohl tailed on our web site. 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Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute translations of such editorial material into another language, except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. The first book ever printed in Europe–heavy, luxurious, pungent and creaky–does not read particularly well on an iPhone. Simon Garfield Just My Type: A book about fonts COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 35, NUMBER 3 • 2014 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. 230 TUGboat, Volume 35 (2014), No. 3 A TUGboat editorial information and L TEX, are available from CTAN and the TUGboat This regular issue (Vol. 35, No. 3) is the third and last web site. We also accept submissions using ConTEXt. issue of the 2014 volume year. 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How- make special arrangements. ever, the authors are still assumed to be the experts. TUGboat Questions regarding content or accuracy should there- editorial board fore be directed to the authors, with an information copy Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief to the Editor. Karl Berry, Production Manager Boris Veytsman, Associate Editor, Book Reviews Submitting items for publication Proposals and requests for TUGboat articles are grate- Production team fully accepted. Please submit contributions by electronic William Adams, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, mail to [email protected]. Kaja Christiansen, Robin Fairbairns, Robin Laakso, The first issue for 2015 will be a regular issue, with Steve Peter, Michael Sofka, Christina Thiele a deadline of March 6. The second 2015 issue will be the proceedings of TUG’15 (http://tug.org/tug2015); the TUGboat advertising deadline for receipt of final papers is July 31. The third For advertising rates and information, including consul- issue deadline is September 25. tant listings, contact the TUG office, or see: The TUGboat style files, for use with plain TEX http://tug.org/TUGboat/advertising.html Ab Epistulis TUGboat 34:2, which includes two notable ar- ticles by Chuck Bigelow, is now publicly available Steve Peter on the TUG website (at http://tug.org/TUGboat/ As summer fades to fall here in the northern hemi- Contents/contents34-2.html). Early online ac- sphere, contemplation strikes. It seems to be a time cess to TUGboat issues is one of the benefits of being of looking forward as we prepare for the long winter a TUG member. Printed copies are available in the ahead, and as it is once again election season in the TUG store at http://tug.org/store/#tugboat. US. 2015 is an election year for TUG. Several direc- Board member Boris Veytsman continues to tor seats will be up for election, as well as the office write prolifically. Now online at the TUG website of president. Jim Hefferon, long-time TUG board are two new book reviews, covering Design Museum member and current vice-president, has expressed Fifty Typefaces That Changed The World, by John his intent to run for president, which I am happy to Walters, and The Imitation Game, by Jim Ottaviani support. Of course, anyone interested in serving is & Leland Purvis. For these and many more reviews, welcome to run for a board position or president. see http://tug.org/books/#reviews. The previous issue of TUGboat contained the Until next time.
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