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TUGBOAT Volume 36, Number 1 / 2015 TUGBOAT Volume 36, Number 1 / 2015 General Delivery 2 Ab epistulis / Steve Peter 3 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Status of CTAN at Cambridge; RIP Brian Housley; Oh, zero! — Lucida news; First Annual Updike Prize; Talk by Tobias Frere-Jones; Monotype Recorder online; Doves Press type recovered; Textures resurfaces; LATEX vs. Word in academic publications; Miscellanea; A final admonishment 7 Hyphenation exception log / Barbara Beeton Fonts 8 What does a typical brief for a new typeface look like? / Thomas Phinney 10 Inconsolata unified / Michael Sharpe Typography 11 A TUG Postcard or, The Trials of a Letterpress Printer / Peter Wilson 15 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn A L TEX 17 LATEX news, issue 21, May 2014 / LATEX Project Team 19 Beamer overlays beyond the \visible / Joseph Wright 20 Glisterings: Here or there; Parallel texts; Abort the compilation / Peter Wilson Electronic Documents 25 Online LATEX editors and other resources / Paweł Łupkowski 28 Exporting XML and ePub from ConTEXt / Hans Hagen Macros 32 The box-glue-penalty algebra of TEX and its use of \prevdepth / Frank Mittelbach Software & Tools 37 The bird and the lion: arara / Paulo Cereda 41 The SWIGLIB project / Luigi Scarso 48 Still tokens: LuaTEX scanners / Hans Hagen Hints & Tricks 55 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Book Reviews 57 Book review: Algorithmic Barriers Falling: P= NP?, by Donald E. Knuth and Edgar Daylight / David Walden 58 Book review: History of the Linotype Company, by Frank Romano / Boris Veytsman Abstracts 60 GUST: EuroBachoTEX 2014 proceedings 63 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 4/2014–1/2015 TUG Business 2 TUGboat editorial information 64 TUG 2015 election 68 TUG financial statements for 2014 / Karl Berry 69 TUG institutional members Advertisements 69 TEX consulting and production services News 71 TUG 2015 announcement 72 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. Steve Peter, President Jim Hefferon∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions Karl Berry∗, Treasurer 2015 dues for individual members are as follows: ∗ Susan DeMeritt , Secretary Regular members: $105. Barbara Beeton Special rate: $75. Kaja Christiansen The special rate is available to students, seniors, and Michael Doob citizens of countries with modest economies, as de- Steve Grathwohl tailed on our web site. Also, anyone joining or re- Taco Hoekwater newing before March 31 receives a $20 discount. Klaus H¨oppner Membership in the T X Users Group is for the E Ross Moore calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat for Cheryl Ponchin the year in which membership begins or is renewed, Arthur Reutenauer as well as software distributions and other benefits. Philip Taylor Individual membership is open only to named indi- Boris Veytsman viduals, and carries with it such rights and responsi- David Walden bilities as voting in TUG elections. For membership Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director † information, visit the TUG web site. † TUGboat Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts Also, (non-voting) subscriptions are ∗ available to organizations and others wishing to re- member of executive committee †honorary ceive TUGboat in a name other than that of an individual. The subscription rate for 2015 is $110. See http://tug.org/board.html for a roster of all past and present board members, and other official positions. Institutional Membership Addresses Electronic Mail Institutional membership is primarily a means of (Internet) showing continuing interest in and support for both TEX Users Group P.O. Box 2311 General correspondence, T X and the T X Users Group. It also provides E E Portland, OR 97208-2311 membership, subscriptions: a discounted membership rate, site-wide electronic U.S.A. [email protected] access, and other benefits. For further information, see http://tug.org/instmem.html or contact the Telephone Submissions to TUGboat, TUG office. +1 503 223-9994 letters to the Editor: [email protected] Trademarks Fax Technical support for Many trademarked names appear in the pages of +1 815 301-3568 TEX users: TUGboat. If there is any question about whether [email protected] a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates Web Contact the that it should be treated as if it is. The following list http://tug.org/ Board of Directors: of trademarks which commonly appear in TUGboat http://tug.org/TUGboat/ [email protected] should not be considered complete. TEX is a trademark of American Mathematical Society. METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. Copyright c 2015 TEX Users Group. PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Copyright to individual articles within this publication remains with their authors, so the articles may not [printing date: April 2015] be reproduced, distributed or translated without the authors’ permission. Printed in U.S.A. For the editorial and other material not ascribed to a particular author, permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved. Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute translations of such editorial material into another language, except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. You have patience for detail and iterative processes. Kerning is a great time for meditation, really. Tobias Frere-Jones http://www.frerejones.com/about/jobs/ COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 36, NUMBER 1 • 2015 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. 2 TUGboat, Volume 36 (2015), No. 1 A TUGboat editorial information and L TEX, are available from CTAN and the TUGboat This regular issue (Vol. 36, No. 1) is the first issue of the web site. We also accept submissions using ConTEXt. 2015 volume year. Deadlines, tips for authors, and other information: TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of member- http://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html ship to all current TUG members. It is also available Effective with the 2005 volume year, submission of to non-members in printed form through the TUG store a new manuscript implies permission to publish the ar- TUGboat (http://tug.org/store), and online at the TUGboat ticle, if accepted, on the web site, as well as web site, http://tug.org/TUGboat. Online publication in print. Thus, the physical address you provide in the to non-members is delayed up to one year after print manuscript will also be available online. If you have any publication, to give members the benefit of early access. reservations about posting online, please notify the edi- Submissions to TUGboat are reviewed by volun- tors at the time of submission and we will be happy to teers and checked by the Editor before publication. How- make special arrangements. ever, the authors are still assumed to be the experts. TUGboat editorial board Questions regarding content or accuracy should there- Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief fore be directed to the authors, with an information copy Karl Berry, Production Manager to the Editor. Boris Veytsman, Associate Editor, Book Reviews Submitting items for publication Production team TUGboat Proposals and requests for articles are grate- William Adams, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, fully accepted. Please submit contributions by electronic Kaja Christiansen, Robin Fairbairns, Robin Laakso, mail to [email protected]. Steve Peter, Michael Sofka, Christina Thiele The second 2015 issue will be the proceedings of TUG’15 (http://tug.org/tug2015); the deadline for re- TUGboat advertising ceipt of final papers is July 31. The third issue deadline For advertising rates and information, including consul- is September 25. tant listings, contact the TUG office, or see: The TUGboat style files, for use with plain TEX http://tug.org/TUGboat/advertising.html Ab Epistulis Annual Meeting as President one last time. The 2015 TUG Annual Meeting will be held in Darm- Steve Peter stadt, Germany, July 20–22. If you’d like to make a 2105 is an election year, with seats for the Board and for presentation at the conference, please see http://tug. President open. For the Board of Directors, the following org/tug2015/cfp.html. Early submissions are greatly individuals were nominated: Pavneet Arora, Barbara Bee- appreciated. Please write us at [email protected] for any ton, Karl Berry, Susan DeMeritt, Michael Doob, Cheryl questions, expressions of interest, etc. Ponchin, Norbert Preining, and Boris Veytsman. As Book your hotel and flight, and I hope to see you there were not more Board nominations than open posi- there! See http://tug.org/tug2015 for information. tions, all these nominees are duly elected to a four-year Since the election technically makes me a lame duck term. Thanks to all for their willingness to serve. (don’t worry, I’ve been called worse!), I’ve been thinking I’m pleased that two dedicated individuals have about my tenure and the challenges that lie ahead. I am TUG stepped forward to run for TUG President. Kaveh Bazar- pleased that as an organization is running quite smoothly now, which is due in no small part to the gan is a long-time TEX enthusiast who has served as cinematographer at many a TUG meeting, ensuring that outstanding team I had to work with: my executive people who could not attend in person have access to the committee, Jim Hefferon, Sue DeMeritt, and Karl Berry, information presented there. Jim Hefferon is the current and especially the day to day work of our Executive TUG Vice President and has served the community in Director, Robin Laakso. a variety of capacities, most notably as one of the hosts The main challenge that I am disappointed I was and organizers for CTAN. Since there is but a single office not able to tackle is the shrinking membership numbers TUG of President, an election ballot is required, in accordance for .
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