TUGBOAT Volume 33, Number 3 / 2012 General Delivery 239 Ab epistulis / Steve Peter 240 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton New printings of Computers & Typesetting; Three printing-related symposia; An open source font from Adobe: Source Sans Pro; Errata: TUGboat 33:1 and 33:2 241 KOMA-Script comes of age / Markus Kohm 245 Almost 30 years of using TEX / Christina Thiele A L TEX 263 Changing the font size in LATEX / Thomas Thurnherr 265 The calculator and calculus packages: Arithmetic and functional calculations inside LATEX / Robert Fuster 272 The xtemplate package: An example / Clemens Niederberger 276 A patent application design flow in LATEX and LYX / Peter Pupalaikis 282 Page style tricks with scrpage2 / Markus Kohm Expanding Horizons 285 CrafTEX: Applying TEX, MetaPost, and friends in crafts / Mari Voipio Philology 289 MayaPS: Maya hieroglyphics with (LA)TEX / Bruno Delprat and Stepan Orevkov 295 Experiences with Arabic font development / Sherif Mansour and Hossam Fahmy Fonts 299 The fonts we choose / Boris Veytsman 301 Using TEX Gyre Pagella OpenType Math / Herbert Voß 302 OpenType math font development: Progress and challenges / Ulrik Vieth 309 From drawn to filled paths / Linus Romer Macros 313 Glisterings: Cutout windows / Peter Wilson 316 Stubborn leaders and juggling boxes: A slightly unusual table of contents / Boris Veytsman Hints & Tricks 319 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Book Reviews 320 Book review: PSTricks: Graphics and PostScript for TEX and LATEX / Boris Veytsman 322 Book review: Just My Type: A book about fonts / David Walden Abstracts 324 Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of issue 56 (2011) (simultaneously published as MAPS 43 and Zpravodaj 2–4/2011) 325 ArsTEXnica: Contents of issue 14 (October 2012) 326 The PracTEX Journal: Contents of issue 2012-1 Letters 328 PUB and pre-TEX history / Don Knuth News 328 TUG 2013 announcement 329 Calendar Advertisements 330 TEX consulting and production services TUG Business 238 TUG institutional members 332 TUG 2013 election TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the TEX Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † Users Group. 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Since I last wrote at the beginning of the year, many tug.org/books) that offers these and other books of things TEX have been transpiring, not the least of either TEX or typography interest. A small portion which (for the present group at least) was the annual of the sales benefits TUG so that we may continue meeting in Boston. I had an amazing time there, to support various projects. reconnecting with old friends, meeting new people, And speaking of books (I seem to write that a CSLI and having a great time talking TEX! (Have a look at lot—maybe I should make a macro), Publica- http://www.tug.org/2012 for a recap of what you tions is now offering a 20% discount for TUG mem- might have missed.) Next year, the meeting will be bers on all their books, including the newly reissued in Tokyo, from October 23–26.