TUGBOAT Volume 30, Number 2 / 2009 TUG 2009 Conference Proceedings TUG 2009 154 Conference program, delegates, and sponsors 159 Profile of Eitan Gurari (1947–2009) LATEX 163 Boris Veytsman / LATEX class writing for wizard apprentices 169 Arthur Reutenauer / LuaTEX for the LATEX user: An introduction Accessibility 170 Ross Moore / Ongoing efforts to generate “tagged PDF” using pdfTEX Education 176 Frank Quinn / The EduTEX TUG working group Software & Tools 177 Jim Hefferon / Becoming a CTAN mirror 179 Karl Berry / TEX Live 2009 news 180 Tim Arnold / Getting started with plasTEX 183 Hans Hagen / LuaTEX: Halfway to version 1 187 Hans Hagen / LuaTEX and ConTEXt: Where we stand 191 Bob Neveln and Bob Alps / ProofCheck: Writing and checking complete proofs in LATEX Publishing 196 Karl Berry and David Walden / TEX People: The TUG interviews project and book 203 David Walden / Self-publishing: Experiences and opinions Graphics 209 Klaus H¨oppner / Introduction to METAPOST 214 Andrew Mertz and William Slough / A TikZ tutorial: Generating graphics in the spirit of TEX 227 Boris Veytsman and Leila Akhmadeeva / Medical pedigrees: Typography and interfaces Fonts 236 Jim Hefferon / A first look at the TEX Gyre fonts 241 Hans Hagen / Plain TEX and OpenType 243 Aditya Mahajan / Integrating Unicode and OpenType math in ConTEXt Macros 247 Aditya Mahajan / LuaTEX: A user’s perspective Bibliographies 252 Nelson Beebe / BIBTEX meets relational databases Electronic Documents 272 Kaveh Bazargan / TEX as an eBook reader 274 Christian Rossi / From distribution to preservation of digital documents 281 D. 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Printed in U.S.A. 2009 Conference Proceedings TEX Users Group Thirtieth Annual Meeting University of Notre Dame Indiana, USA July 29–31, 2009 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP TUGBOAT EDITOR BARBARA BEETON PROCEEDINGS EDITOR KARL BERRY VOLUME 30, NUMBER 2 • 2009 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUG 2009 University of Notre Dame Indiana, USA July 28–July 31, 2009 Sponsors TEX Users Group Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic DANTE e.V. A-R Editions Design Science MacKichan Software O’Reilly Media River Valley Technologies Thanks to all! Acknowledgments Many thanks to all the speakers and teachers, without whom there would be no conference, and also special thanks to: Martha Kummerer, for the local research and organization. Duane Bibby, for the (as always) excellent and fun drawings.