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TUGBOAT Volume 32, Number 1 / 2011 TUGBOAT Volume 32, Number 1 / 2011 General Delivery 3 From the president / Karl Berry 4 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Opus 100; BBVA award for Don Knuth; Short takes; Mimi 6 Mimi Burbank / Jackie Damrau 7 Missing Mimi / Christina Thiele 9 16 years of ConTEXt / Hans Hagen 17 TUGboat’s 100 issues — Basic statistics and random gleanings / David Walden and Karl Berry 23 TUGboat online / Karl Berry and David Walden 27 TEX consulting for fun and profit / Boris Veytsman Resources 30 Which way to the forum? / Jim Hefferon Electronic Documents 32 LATEX at Distributed Proofreaders and the electronic preservation of mathematical literature at Project Gutenberg / Andrew Hwang Fonts 39 Introducing the PT Sans and PT Serif typefaces / Pavel Far´aˇr 43 Handling math: A retrospective / Hans Hagen Typography 47 The rules for long s / Andrew West Software & Tools 56 Installing TEX Live 2010 on Ubuntu / Enrico Gregorio 62 tlcontrib.metatex.org: A complement to TEX Live / Taco Hoekwater 68 LuaTEX: What it takes to make a paragraph / Paul Isambert 77 Luna — my side of the moon / Paweł Jackowski A L TEX 83 Reflections on the history of the LATEX Project Public License (LPPL)— A software license for LATEX and more / Frank Mittelbach 95 siunitx: A comprehensive (SI) units package / Joseph Wright 99 Glisterings: Framing, new frames / Peter Wilson 104 Some misunderstood or unknown LATEX2ε tricks III / Luca Merciadri A L TEX 3 108 LATEX3 news, issue 5 / LATEX Project Team Book Reviews 109 Book review: Typesetting tables with LATEX / Boris Veytsman Hints & Tricks 110 The treasure chest / Karl Berry 113 ‘Magic’ comments in TEXworks 0.4 / Joseph Wright Abstracts 114 Eutypon: Contents of issue 24–25 (October 2010) 115 MAPS: Contents of issue 41 (2010) 116 The PracTEX Journal: Contents of issue 2010-2 117 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 4/2010–1/2011 118 ArsTEXnica: Contents of issue 10 (October 2010) Advertisements 119 TEX consulting and production services Letters 120 Is TEX obsolete? / Jonathan Fine TUG Business 121 TUG institutional members 121 TUG financial statements for 2010 / David Walden 123 2011 TEX Users Group election / Jim Hefferon News 127 Calendar 128 TUG 2011 announcement TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the TEX Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † Users Group. Karl Berry, President ∗ Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions David Walden∗, Treasurer 2010 dues for individual members are as follows: ∗ Susan DeMeritt , Secretary Ordinary members: $95. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $55. Jon Breitenbucher The discounted rate of $55 is also available to Jonathan Fine citizens of countries with modest economies, as Steve Grathwohl detailed on our web site. Jim Hefferon Membership in the T X Users Group is for the E Klaus H¨oppner calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Ross Moore for the year in which membership begins or is Steve Peter renewed, as well as software distributions and other Cheryl Ponchin benefits. Individual membership is open only to Philip Taylor named individuals, and carries with it such rights TUG Boris Veytsman and responsibilities as voting in elections. 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Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute Please email [email protected]. translations of such editorial material into another language, except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations [printing date: May 2011] of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. Printed in U.S.A. The ideal proofreader should be, in my opinion, knowledgeable about every aspect of spelling, punctuation, and grammar, while being slightly dyslexic. Isaac Asimov, It’s Been a Good Life (2002) edited by Janet Jeppson Asimov COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 32, NUMBER 1 • 2011 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. 2 TUGboat, Volume 32 (2011), No. 1 TUGboat TUGboat editorial board This regular issue (Vol. 32, No. 1) is the first issue Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief of the 2011 volume year. No. 2 will be another Karl Berry, Production Manager regular issue, with reprints from the EuroBachoTEX Boris Veytsman, Associate Editor, Book Reviews conference, and No. 3 will contain papers from the Production team TUG 2011 conference in Trivandrum, India. William Adams, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of member- Kaja Christiansen, Robin Fairbairns, ship to all current TUG members. It is also available Robin Laakso, Steve Peter, Michael Sofka, to non-members in printed form through the TUG Christina Thiele store (http://tug.org/store), and online at the TUGboat web site, http://tug.org/TUGboat. 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If there is any question about whether Effective with the 2005 volume year, submission a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates of a new manuscript implies permission to publish that it should be treated as if it is. The following list the article, if accepted, on the TUGboat web site, of trademarks which commonly appear in TUGboat as well as in print. Thus, the physical address should not be considered complete. you provide in the manuscript will also be available METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. online. If you have any reservations about posting PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. online, please notify the editors at the time of TEX and AMS-TEX are trademarks of the American submission and we will be happy to make special Mathematical Society. arrangements. TUGboat, Volume 32 (2011), No. 1 3 From the President The book of interviews we published in 2009 is available at http://tug.org/store/texpeople. Karl Berry The full PDF for the book is also available in the Election TUG members area. After four terms as TUG president, I decided to About the cover run for director this year. Long-time board member For the cover of this 100th issue of TUGboat, we Steve Peter expressed his desire and willingness to made a selection of previous notable or unusual cov- serve as president, and I fully support him. ers, from volume 1, issue 1 in 1980 (upper left), to As this TUGboat was in preparation, the elec- this issue #100 (lower right). (We arbitrarily ended tion results came in, and there were no contested the recursion after one level; the PDF file size was positions.
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