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TUGBOAT Volume 39, Number 3 / 2018 General Delivery 163 From the president / Boris Veytsman 164 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Passings: Patricia Monohon (30 May 1941–6 April 2018), Vytas Statulevicius (†July 2018); TEX and the history of desktop publishing; Open season for lectures on typography; Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Janson font; W. A. Dwiggins — Making orders; The Updike prize for student font designers; A “brand” new font 167 TUGboat open-access survey results / TUG Board 168 TEXConf 2018 in Japan / Norbert Preining Typography 169 The Cary Graphic Arts Collection / David Walden 171 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Tutorials 173 A beginner’s guide to file encoding and TeXShop / Herbert Schulz and Richard Koch 177 The DuckBoat — News from TEX.SE: Formatting posts / Carla Maggi 182 Managing the paper trail of student projects: datatool and more / B. Tomas Johansson Fonts 185 Interview with Kris Holmes / David Walden 204 Science and history behind the design of Lucida / Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes 212 TEX Gyre text fonts revisited / Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Pianowski, Piotr Strzelczyk Electronic Documents 217 HINT: Reflowing TEX output / Martin Ruckert Software & Tools 224 Axessibility: Creating PDF documents with accessible formulae / D. Ahmetovic, T. Armano, C. Bernareggi, M. Berra, A. Capietto, S. Coriasco, N. Murru, A. Ruighi 228 Improving the representation and conversion of mathematical formulae by considering their textual context / Moritz Schubotz, Andr´eGreiner-Petter, Philipp Scharpf, Norman Meuschke, Howard S. Cohl, Bela Gipp Graphics 241 Dednat6: An extensible (semi-)preprocessor for LuaLATEX that understands diagrams in ASCII art / Eduardo Ochs A L TEX 246 Managing forlorn paragraph lines (a.k.a. widows and orphans) in LATEX / Frank Mittelbach 252 The widows-and-orphans package / Frank Mittelbach 263 The dashundergaps package / Frank Mittelbach Bibliographies 275 State secrets in bibliography-style hacking / Karl Berry and Oren Patashnik Methods 276 Experiments with \parfillskip / Udo Wermuth Hints & Tricks 304 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Abstracts 305 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issue 4/2018 Advertisements 305 TEX consulting and production services TUG Business 162 TUGboat editorial information 162 TUG institutional members 307 TUG 2019 election News 308 Calendar TEX Users Group Board of Directors † TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana ∗ TEX Users Group. Web: tug.org/TUGboat. 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