TUGBOAT Volume 40, Number 3 / 2019 General Delivery 211 From the president / Boris Veytsman 212 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton TEX Users Group 2019 sponsors; Kerning between lowercase+uppercase; Differential “d”; Bibliographic archives in BibTEX form 213 Ukraine at BachoTEX 2019: Thoughts and impressions / Yevhen Strakhov Publishing 215 An experience of trying to submit a paper in LATEX in an XML-first world / David Walden 217 Studying the histories of computerizing publishing and desktop publishing, 2017–19 / David Walden Resources 229 TEX services at texlive.info / Norbert Preining 231 Providing Docker images for TEX Live and ConTEXt / Island of TEX 232 TEX on the Raspberry Pi / Hans Hagen Software & Tools 234 MuPDF tools / Taco Hoekwater 236 LATEX on the road / Piet van Oostrum Graphics 247 A Brazilian Portuguese work on MetaPost, and how mathematics is embedded in it / Estev˜aoVin´ıcius Candia LATEX 251 LATEX news, issue 30, October 2019 / LATEX Project Team Methods 255 Understanding scientific documents with synthetic analysis on mathematical expressions and natural language / Takuto Asakura Fonts 257 Modern Type 3 fonts / Hans Hagen Multilingual 263 Typesetting the Bangla script in Unicode TEX engines—experiences and insights Document Processing / Md Qutub Uddin Sajib Typography 270 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Book Reviews 272 Book review: Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography by Jerry Kelly / Barbara Beeton 274 Book review: Carol Twombly: Her brief but brilliant career in type design by Nancy Stock-Allen / Karl Berry Abstracts 275 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 2–3/2019 276 Eutypon: Contents of issue 40–41 (October 2018) Hints & Tricks 277 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Cartoon 278 Comic: The history of Unicode / Randall Munroe TUG Business 210 TUGboat editorial information 210 TUG institutional members 279 TEX Development Fund 2014–2019 report Advertisements 280 TUG 2019 sponsors: Google; Adobe; 281 Overleaf; Pearson; 282 STM Document Engineering Pvt Ltd 283 TEX consulting and production services News 284 Calendar TEX Users Group Board of Directors † TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Ur Wizard of TEX-arcana ∗ TEX Users Group. 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In order to compensate for the XGP’s limited As a member of The Book Club of California (https: resolution, we prepared magnified copy and the //www.bccbooks.org), I was invited to organize an printer reduced it to 70%; the effective resolution exhibition for the club members. I decided to devote was therefore about 286 pixels/inch. [. ] About it to the history of TEX. 100 copies were printed, of which roughly 25 were It feels strange to talk about a history of a sold and the remaining 75 were given as gifts.