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TUGBOAT Volume 37, Number 2 / 2016 TUG 2016 TUGBOAT Volume 37, Number 2 / 2016 TUG 2016 (Toronto) Conference Proceedings TUG 2016 106 Pavneet Arora / Passport to the TEX canvas 111 Conference sponsors, participants, program, and photos 115 Norbert Preining / TUG 2016 in Toronto 125 Stefan Kottwitz / TUG 2016 Annual General Meeting informal report General Delivery 126 Lou Burnard / Sebastian Rahtz (1955–2016): A brief memoir 129 Frank Mittelbach and Joan Richmond / R.I.P. — S.P.Q.R Sebastian Patrick Quintus Rahtz (13.2.1955–15.3.2016) 131 David Walden / Interview with Pavneet Arora Typography 137 Joe Clark / Type in the Toronto subway 148 Leila Akhmadeeva, Rinat Gizatullin, Boris Veytsman / Are justification and hyphenation good or bad for the reader? Preliminary experimental results Publishing 152 David Walden / An informal look into the history of digital typography Fonts 154 Charles Bigelow / A short history of the Lucida math fonts 161 Michael Sharpe / New font offerings: Cochineal, Nimbus15, LibertinusT1Math 163 Jaeyoung Choi, Sungmin Kim, Hojin Lee, Geunho Jeong / MFCONFIG: A METAFONT plug-in module for the Freetype rasterizer 171 Abdelouahad Bayar / Towards an operational (LA)TEX package supporting optical scaling of dynamic mathematical symbols A L TEX 180 Jim Hefferon / ALATEX reference manual 182 Matthew Skala / Astrological charts with horoscop and starfont 183 Boris Veytsman / Remaking the ACM LATEX styles 187 Geoffrey Poore / Advances in PythonTEX with an introduction to fvextra 193 David Tulett / Development of an e-textbook using LATEX and PSTricks Macros 200 Christian Gagn´e / An Emacs-based writing workflow inspired by TEX and WEB, targeting the Web 204 Federico Garcia-De Castro / TEXcel? An unexpected use for TEX Software & Tools 209 Mojca Miklavec and Arthur Reutenauer / Hyphenation in TEX and elsewhere, past and future 214 Michael Cohen, Blanca Mancilla, John Plaice / Zebrackets: A score of years and delimiters 222 Amartyo Banerjee and S.K. Venkatesan / A Telegram bot for printing LATEX files Book Reviews 229 Boris Veytsman / Palatino: The natural history of a typeface by Robert Bringhurst 232 David Walden / A Truck Full of Money by Tracy Kidder Abstracts 234 TUG 2016 abstracts (Bazargan, Bigelow, Bringhurst, Claudio, Inkster, Kottwitz, Larson, Mittelbach, Preining, Reutenauer) TUG Business 238 Susan DeMeritt / TUG 2016 Annual General Meeting Minutes 240 TUG Board / Report: Suspension of Kaveh Bazargan as TUG President 249 TUG 2017 election 250 TUG institutional members Advertisements 250 TEX consulting and production services News 252 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: http://tug.org/TUGboat. Jim Hefferon, President Boris Veytsman∗, Vice President ∗ Individual membership Klaus H¨oppner , Treasurer ∗ 2016 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt , Secretary Regular members: $105. 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For further information, Web Contact the see http://tug.org/instmem.html or contact the http://tug.org/ Board of Directors: TUG office. http://tug.org/TUGboat/ [email protected] Trademarks Many trademarked names appear in the pages of Copyright c 2016 TEX Users Group. TUGboat . If there is any question about whether Copyright to individual articles within this publication a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates remains with their authors, so the articles may not that it should be treated as if it is. The following list be reproduced, distributed or translated without the of trademarks which commonly appear in TUGboat authors’ permission. should not be considered complete. For the editorial and other material not ascribed to a particular author, permission is granted to make and TEX is a trademark of American Mathematical Society. METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. are preserved. Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute [printing date: September 2016] translations of such editorial material into another Printed in U.S.A. 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. 2016 Conference Proceedings TEX Users Group Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting Toronto, Canada July 25–27, 2016 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP TUGBOAT EDITOR BARBARA BEETON PROCEEDINGS EDITOR KARL BERRY VOLUME 37, NUMBER 2 • 2016 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. 106 TUGboat, Volume 37 (2016), No. 2 Passport to the TEX canvas Pavneet Arora Welcome. Whenever I begin a talk, in my head I hear Jean- luc Doumount’s admonishment on what not to do when presenting. (From his article on presentations, That’s right. Toronto is pronounced like piranha. “Traditions, templates, and group leaders”.) So when you’re at the next border, and the officer asks where you are heading to, simply keep this mental image in mind, and you will come off sounding like a true local. The inspiration for the canvas and the painting style comes from The Group of Seven, an influential group of Canadian impressionist painters — AJ Cas- son and Lawren Harris being two of my favourites. Those on the Georgian Bay excursion this coming Friday will have a chance to see many Group of Seven works in person at the McMichael Art Collection. 1 Canvases 1.1 Collaboration And so I will resist the temptation to fall into This year at Microsoft’s Build conference, Satya the more obvious traps, although along the way I Nadella used an interesting turn of phrase: he spoke will no doubt transgress. Presumably we all know of “conversational canvases”. And let me just say which city we are in. And we know the reason for that in my wildest dreams I never, ever, ever imag- our being here: ined that I would open any presentation of mine by quoting the CEO of Microsoft. I hope this is more of an indicator of what Microsoft is about these days than an indicator about me. So let me say what a delight it is to have Kevin Larson from Microsoft’s Advanced Typography Group join us. When I went about trying to contact the group, I landed up on a website that looked as if it was a screen scrape of a Windows 97 screen. The old Tektronix 4010s that I used to work on had a crisper image, and for that matter could be used as a crisper given the dosage coming off the panel! It was a happy day indeed when I heard back from Microsoft, and then had an email exchange with Kevin. Kevin will be speaking this afternoon. But back to canvases: what is this canvas that Satya was talking about? The buzz nowadays is about IoT (Internet of Things, or not only network enabled but aware devices), intelligent bots enabled by cloud based machine learning, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Even so, some of us may yet be unfamiliar with When I thought about it some more, I began one critical aspect of this city: the pronunciation of to suspect that what he was really referring to had its name. When Duane Bibby and I were discussing more to do with a specific type of human activity, or concepts for the conference logo, I put forth a small mode of “interaction”. That the canvas across these request: that the logo should have a small Easter interactions was the common element. That is, in Egg which would be a reminder of just this point. this “mobile first, cloud first” vision, the device has Any takers on what that Easter Egg might be? become the canvas. Pavneet Arora TUGboat, Volume 37 (2016), No. 2 107 When over-the-air TV ruled this continent’s air- 1.2 Discovery CBS waves, if one were to switch from News — with Behind this illusion of spectacle, behind the curtain its exquisite branding with the very beautiful Didot that forms the backdrop of the glitz and glamour of typeface under the guidance of Lou Dorfsman — to the stage is another form of activity.
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