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TUGBOAT Volume 40, Number 1 / 2019 General Delivery 3 From the president / Boris Veytsman 4 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton A memorial for SPQR; Project support from UK-TUG and TUG; Installing historic TEX Live on Unix; Converting images to LATEX: mathpix.com; Fonts, fonts, fonts! (Helvetica Now, Study, Public Sans, Brill diacritics, Berlin typography) 5 Noob to Ninja: The challenge of taking beginners’ needs into account when teaching LATEX / Sarah Lang and Astrid Schm¨olzer Tutorials 10 The DuckBoat — News from TEX.SE: Processing text files to get LATEX tables / Carla Maggi Accessibility 14 No hands — the dictation of LATEX / Mike Roberts 17 Nemeth braille math and LATEX source as braille / Susan Jolly Software & Tools 22 Both TEX and DVI viewers inside the web browser / Jim Fowler 25 Markdown 2.7.0: Towards lightweight markup in TEX / V´ıt Novotn´y 28 New front ends for TEX Live / Siep Kroonenberg 30 TinyTeX: A lightweight, cross-platform, and easy-to-maintain LATEX distribution based on TEX Live / Yihui Xie 33 Extending primitive coverage across engines / Joseph Wright 34 ConTEXt LMTX / Hans Hagen 38 Bringing world scripts to LuaTEX: The HarfBuzz experiment / Khaled Hosny A L TEX 44 LATEX news, issue 29, December 2018 / LATEX Project Team 47 Glossaries with bib2gls / Nicola Talbot 61 TEX.StackExchange cherry picking, part 2: Templating / Enrico Gregorio 69 Real number calculations in LATEX: Packages / Joseph Wright Macros 71 Real number calculations in TEX: Implementations and performance / Joseph Wright Electronic Documents 76 TEX4ht: LATEX to Web publishing / Michal Hoftich 82 TUGboat online, reimplemented / Karl Berry Book Reviews 85 Book review: Never use Futura by Douglas Thomas / Boris Veytsman Abstracts 88 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issue 1/2019 88 Zpravodaj : Contents of issue 2018/1–4 Hints & Tricks 89 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Cartoon 91 Comic: Punctuation headlines / John Atkinson Advertisements 91 TEX consulting and production services TUG Business 2 TUGboat editorial information 2 TUG institutional members 93 TUG financial statements for 2018 / Karl Berry 94 TUG 2019 election News 96 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. 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