TUGBOAT Volume 34, Number 1 / 2013 General Delivery 3 Ab epistulis / Steve Peter 4 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton This is the year for TEX bug reports; Don Knuth in the news (again); A new TEX calendar; Compulsive Bodoni / the Parmigiano Typographic System; Printing technology, old and new; Interactive and collaborative on-line LATEX; Mapping math and scientific symbols to their meanings Resources 6 CTAN: Relaunch of the Web portal / Gerd Neugebauer Fonts 10 Fonts! Fonts! Fonts! / Bob Tennent Typography 14 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Graphics 17 Entry-level MetaPost: On the grid / Mari Voipio 21 Recreating historical patterns with MetaPost / Mari Voipio 26 The xpicture package / Robert Fuster A L TEX 34 Side-by-side figures in LATEX / Thomas Thurnherr 37 Glisterings: Repetition; Verbatims; Small pages; Prefixing section heads / Peter Wilson 40 The esami package for examinations / Grazia Messineo and Salvatore Vassallo Dreamboat 47 E-TEX: Guidelines for future TEX extensions — revisited / Frank Mittelbach Software & Tools 64 LuaJITTEX / Luigi Scarso ConTEXt 72 ConTEXt: Just-in-time LuaTEX / Hans Hagen 79 ConTEXt basics for users: Images / Aditya Mahajan Macros 83 New CSplain of 2012 / Petr Olˇs´ak 88 OPmac: Macros for plain TEX / Petr Olˇs´ak Hints & Tricks 96 The treasure chest / Karl Berry 97 Production notes / Karl Berry Book Reviews 98 Book review: The Computer Science of TEX and LATEX / Boris Veytsman Abstracts 99 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 4/2012–1/2013 100 Eutypon: Contents of issue 28–29 (October 2012) News 101 Calendar 102 TUG 2013 announcement Advertisements 103 TEX consulting and production services TUG Business 2 TUGboat editorial information 2 TUG institutional members 105 TUG membership form 106 TUG financial statements for 2012 / Karl Berry 107 TUG 2013 election Fiction 108 Colophon / Daniel Quinn 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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July 15 is the com- and I’d like to encourage as many to get involved as bined deadline for presentation proposals, bursary possible. 2013 is an election year for TUG, both for requests, and the early registration discount. Please president and for several directors’ positions. The see http://tug.org/tug2013. deadline for nominations is May 1, and an official Interviews and reviews announcement appears elsewhere in this issue. The TUG website features several new interviews CTAN since the last time I wrote. Board member David As described in Gerd Neugebauer’s article in this Walden continues to highlight some of the most cre- issue, the main http://www.ctan.org website has ative people in the TEX world on an ongoing basis.