TUGBOAT Volume 32, Number 3 / 2011 TUG 2011 Conference Proceedings TUG 2011 242 Conference program, delegates, and sponsors 245 Barbara Beeton / TUG 2011 in India Resources 248 Stefan Kottwitz / TEX online communities — discussion and content Education 251 Kannan Moudgalya / LATEX training through spoken tutorials Electronic 257 Alan Wetmore / e-Readers and LATEX Documents 261 Boris Veytsman and Michael Ware / Ebooks and paper sizes: Output routines made easier 266 Rishi T. / LATEX to ePub 269 Manjusha Joshi / A dream of computing and LATEXing together: A reality with SageTEX 272 Axel Kielhorn / Multi-target publishing 278 S.K. Venkatesan / On the use of TEX as an authoring language for HTML5 281 S. Sankar, S. Mahalakshmi and L. Ganesh / An XML model of CSS3 as an XLATEX-TEXML-HTML5 stylesheet language Typography 285 Boris Veytsman and Leyla Akhmadeeva / Towards evidence-based typography: Literature review and experiment design Bibliographies 289 Jean-Michel Hufflen / A comparative study of methods for bibliographies LATEX 302 Brian Housley / The hletter class and style for producing flexible letters and page headings 309 Didier Verna / Towards LATEX coding standards Abstracts 329 TUG 2011 abstracts (Bazargan, Crossland, Radhakrishnan, Doumont, Mittelbach, Moore, Rishi, Skoup´y, Sojka, Wujastyk) A L TEX 331 LATEX Project Team / LATEX news, issue 20 333 Brian Beitzel / The meetingmins LATEX class: Hierarchically organized meeting agendas and minutes 335 Igor Ruiz-Agundez / Collaborative LATEX writing with Google Docs 339 Peter Wilson / Glisterings: Verbatim arguments; Cut off in its prime 342 Luca Merciadri / Some LATEX2ε tricks and tips (IV) Software & Tools 345 Paul Isambert / TEX as you like it: The interpreter package 349 Wiktor Dziubi´nski, Marcin Woli´nski and Grzegorz Murzynowski / PARCAT — Applying TEX in industry Fonts 357 Dave Crossland / TUG Libre Font Fund, Google Web Fonts, and Kickstarter Book Reviews 358 Boris Veytsman / Book review: Bodoni, Manual of Typography — Manuale tipografico (1818) 359 Boris Veytsman / Book review: LATEX and Friends Hints & Tricks 361 Karl Berry / The treasure chest Abstracts 362 ArsTEXnica: Contents of issues 11–12 (2011) 363 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issue 3/2011 364 The PracTEX Journal: Contents of issue 2011-1 Advertisements 365 TEX consulting and production services TUG Business 366 TUG institutional members News 367 Calendar 368 TUG 2012 announcement 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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Bursary committee Steve Peter, chair Jana Chlebikova Bogus law Jackowski Alan Wetmore Conference committee Kaveh Bazargan Karl Berry Krishna GS Robin Laakso CV Radhadkrishnan With thanks to Namboodiri of RVT for the drawings. Participants Pavneet Arora, Bolton, Canada K. Murali, Transforma Pvt Ltd Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Technologies Ilangovan N, Scientific Publishing Services Barbara Beeton, American Mathematical Society Josy Pullockara, Indian Institute of Science Dave Crossland, Wimborne, UK CV Radhakrishnan, River Valley Technologies Jean-luc Doumont, Principiae Thomas Ratajczak, German Federal Armed Forces L. Ganesh, TNQ Books and Journals Rishi, River Valley Technologies Steve Grathwohl, Duke University Press Chris Rowley,LATEX3 Project Brian Housley, GCCS GmbH Sukumar Sankar, TNQ Books and Journals Jean-Michel Hufflen, University of Franche-Comt´e M. Sankaran, Transforma Private Ltd Anu Jexline, Mathematical Sciences Publishers Neeraj Saxena, Aptara Manjusha Joshi, Pune, India Johny Sebastian, Aptara Jestin Joy, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Karel Skoup´y, Lingea & River Valley Technologies Technology Alistair Smith, Sunrise Setting Ltd Stefan Kottwitz, Germany Petr Sojka, Masaryk University Reinhard Kotucha, Germany Paulo Ney de Souza, BooksInBytes Chandrashekhar Kumar, Bangalore Henrikas Stankus, VTEX Suresh Kumar, SPi Global Vytautas Statulevicius, VTEX Vinoth Kumar S, Scientific Publishing Services Sehar Tahir, Aptara Alagu Lakshmanan, Scientific Publishing Services B. Thiagarajan, TNQ Books and Journals Saravanan M, SPi Global Sigitas Toluˇsis, VTEX S. Mahalakshmi, TNQ Books and Journals Suki Venkat, TNQ Books and Journals Bob Margolis, Hampshire, UK Didier Verna, EPITA R & D Laboratory Frank Mittelbach,LATEX3 Project Boris Veytsman, George Mason University Rajiv Monsurate, Tamilnadu David Walden, E. Sandwich, MA Kannan Moudgalya, IIT Bombay Alan Wetmore, US Army Research Laboratory Ross Moore, Macquarie University Dominik Wujastyk, Austria TUG 2011 — program and information Wednesday 8:30 am registration October 19 9:30 am Barbara Beeton, TEX Users Group Welcome 9:35 am Ross Moore, Macquarie University Further advances toward Tagged PDF for mathematics 10:10 am Rishi, River Valley Technologies Creating magical PDF documents with pdfTEX 10:45 am break 11:20 am CV Radhakrishnan, River Valley Tech. TEX4ht — A Swiss army knife for TEX 12:15 pm Karel Skoup´y, Lingea Data structures in ε-TEX 12:30 pm lunch 1:40 pm Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Tech. Why TEX is more relevant now than ever 2:15 pm Alan Wetmore, US Army Research e-Readers and LATEX Laboratory 2:40 pm break 3:15 pm Boris Veytsman and Michael Ware, Ebooks and paper size: Output routine hacking George Mason Univ. and made easy Brigham Young Univ. 3:50 pm Rishi Automated generation of ePub from LATEX 4:25 pm q&a Thursday 9:35 am Jean-Michel Hufflen, University of A comparative study of methods for bibliographies October 20 Franche-Comt´e 10:10 am Brian Housley, GCCS GmbH Making a package for flexible letter & page headings 10:45 am break 11:20 am Didier Verna, EPITA R & D Lab. Toward LATEX coding standards 11:55 pm Frank Mittelbach, LATEX3 Project LATEX3 architecture 12:30 pm lunch 1:40 pm Dave Crossland, Wimborne, UK Freeing fonts for fun and profit 2:15 pm Boris Veytsman & Leyla Akhmadeeva, Towards evidence-based typography: Experiment design Bashkir State Medical University 2:40 pm break 3:15 pm Karel Skoup´y Typesetting