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TUGBOAT Volume 29, Number 2 / 2008 General Delivery 231 From the president / Karl Berry 232 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton TEX 3.1415926 is here, and other Knuthian references; Phyllis Winkler, RIP; New domain name for CervanTEX; Interactive typography courses by Jonathan Hoefler; A helpful CTAN feature: “get”; Recreating the Gutenberg press; Copy-editing the wayward apostrophe; A font game for your amusement 233 The TEX tuneup of 2008 / Donald Knuth 239 Hyphenation exception log / Barbara Beeton Typography 240 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn 242 The Greek Font Society / Vassilios Tsagkalos 246 Designing and producing a reference book with LATEX: The Engineer’s Quick Reference Handbook / Claudio Beccari and Andrea Guadagni 255 Suggestions on how not to mishandle mathematical formulæ / Massimo Guiggiani and Lapo Mori Electronic Documents 264 Wikipublisher: A Web-based system to make online and print versions of the same content / John Rankin 270 Character encoding / Victor Eijkhout Fonts 278 lxfonts:LATEX slide fonts revived / Claudio Beccari 283 Reshaping Euler: A collaboration with Hermann Zapf / Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater and Volker RW Schaa Software & Tools 288 Asymptote: A vector graphics language / John Bowman and Andy Hammerlindl 295 The Luafication of TEX and ConTEXt / Hans Hagen 303 Porting TEX Live to OpenBSD / Edward Barrett LATEX 305 Good things come in little packages: An introduction to writing .ins and .dtx files / Scott Pakin ConTEXt 315 ConTEXt basics for users: Indentation / Aditya Mahajan Multilingual MetaPost 317 Kanji-Sudokus: Integrating Chinese and graphics / Denis Roegel Hints & Tricks 320 Interesting loops and iterations — second helping / Pawe lJackowski 324 Glisterings: More on paragraphs regular; LATEX’s defining triumvirate; TEX’s dictator / Peter Wilson 328 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Reviews 331 Book review: Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous / Ulrik Vieth 333 Software review: TEXCAD for Windows / Bernd Schroeder Warnings 334 \looseness on the loose / Frank Mittelbach Abstracts 335 MAPS: Contents of issue 35 (2007) 336 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 2007/2–2008/1 337 Eutypon: Contents of issues 16–20 (2007–2008) 338 ArsTEXnica: Contents of issue 4 (2007) 339 The PracTEX Journal: Contents of issues 2007-3–2008-1 TUG Business 343 TUG financial statements for 2007 / David Walden 344 TUG institutional members 345 TUG membership form News 346 Calendar 347 TUG 2008 announcement Advertisements 348 TEX consulting and production services TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. Karl Berry, President Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions David Walden∗, Treasurer 2008 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt∗, Secretary Ordinary members: $85. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $45. Jon Breitenbucher The discounted rate of $45 is also available to Steve Grathwohl citizens of countries with modest economies, as Jim Hefferon detailed on our web site. Klaus H¨oppner Membership in the TEX Users Group is for the Ross Moore calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Arthur Ogawa 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 Samuel Rhoads named individuals, and carries with it such rights Philip Taylor and responsibilities as voting in TUG elections. For Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director † membership information, visit the TUG web site. Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts † Also, (non-voting) TUGboat subscriptions are ∗member of executive committee available to organizations and others wishing to †honorary receive TUGboat in a name other than that of an See http://tug.org/board.html for past board individual. The subscription rate is $95 per year, members. including air mail delivery. Addresses Electronic Mail Institutional Membership General correspondence, (Internet) Institutional membership is a means of showing payments, etc. General correspondence, continuing interest in and support for both T X E TEX Users Group membership, subscriptions: and the TEX Users Group, as well as providing P. O. Box 2311 [email protected] a discounted group rate and other benefits. For Portland, OR 97208-2311 further information, contact the TUG office or see U.S.A. Submissions to TUGboat, our web site. Delivery services, letters to the Editor: parcels, visitors [email protected] TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical TEX Users Group Society. 1466 NW Naito Parkway Technical support for Suite 3141 TEX users: Copyright c 2008 TEX Users Group. Portland, OR 97209-2820 [email protected] Copyright to individual articles within this publication U.S.A. remains with their authors, so the articles may not be Contact the Board reproduced, distributed or translated without the authors’ Telephone permission. of Directors: For the editorial and other material not ascribed to +1 503 223-9994 [email protected] a particular author, permission is granted to make and Fax distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, +1 206 203-3960 provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. World Wide Web Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute translations of such editorial material into another language, http://www.tug.org/ except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/ of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. Have a suggestion? Problems not resolved? TUG Printed in U.S.A. The Board wants to hear from you: Please email [email protected]. [printing date: June 2008] The Communications of the TEX Users Group Volume 29, Number 2, 2008 TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † TEX Users Group. Karl Berry, President ∗ Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions David Walden∗, Treasurer 2008 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt∗, Secretary Ordinary members: $85. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $45. Jon Breitenbucher The discounted rate of $45 is also available to Steve Grathwohl citizens of countries with modest economies, as Jim Hefferon detailed on our web site. Klaus H¨oppner Membership in the TEX Users Group is for the Ross Moore calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Arthur Ogawa 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 Samuel Rhoads named individuals, and carries with it such rights Philip Taylor and responsibilities as voting in TUG elections. For Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director † membership information, visit the TUG web site. Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts † Also, (non-voting) TUGboat subscriptions are ∗member of executive committee available to organizations and others wishing to †honorary receive TUGboat in a name other than that of an See http://tug.org/board.html for past board individual. The subscription rate is $95 per year, members. including air mail delivery. Addresses Electronic Mail Institutional Membership General correspondence, (Internet) Institutional membership is a means of showing payments, etc. General correspondence, continuing interest in and support for both T X E TEX Users Group membership, subscriptions: and the TEX Users Group, as well as providing P. O. Box 2311 [email protected] a discounted group rate and other benefits. For Portland, OR 97208-2311 further information, contact the TUG office or see U.S.A. Submissions to TUGboat, our web site. Delivery services, letters to the Editor: parcels, visitors [email protected] TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical TEX Users Group Society. 1466 NW Naito Parkway Technical support for Suite 3141 TEX users: Copyright c 2008 TEX Users Group. Portland, OR 97209-2820 [email protected] Copyright to individual articles within this publication U.S.A. remains with their authors, so the articles may not be Contact the Board reproduced, distributed or translated without the authors’ Telephone of Directors: permission. For the editorial and other material not ascribed to +1 503 223-9994 [email protected] a particular author, permission is granted to make and Fax distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, +1 206 203-3960 provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. World Wide Web Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute translations of such editorial material into another language, http://www.tug.org/ except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/ of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. Have a suggestion? Problems not resolved? The TUG Board wants to hear from you: Printed in U.S.A. Please email [email protected]. [printing date: June 2008] The problem is what interests all but beginners in typography. Its solution may be, and often is, moderately exciting; although if the problem is successfully solved no one perceives it has existed. Daniel Berkeley Updike Notes on the Merrymount Press (1934) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 29, NUMBER 2 • 2008 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board This regular issue (Vol. 29, No. 2) is the second Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief issue of the 2008 volume year. No. 1 was a joint Karl Berry, Production Manager publication of the EuroBachoTEX 2007 conference, Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, and No. 3 will contain the TUG 2008 (Cork II) Topics in the Humanities proceedings. Production Team TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of member- William Adams, Barbara Beeton, ship to all current TUG members. It is also available Karl Berry (Manager), Kaja Christiansen, to non-members in printed form through the TUG Robin Fairbairns, Robin Laakso, Steve Peter, store (http://tug.org/store), and online at the Yuri Robbers, Michael Sofka, Christina Thiele TUGboat web site, http://tug.org/TUGboat.