TUGBOAT Volume 41, Number 1 / 2020 General Delivery 3 From the president / Boris Veytsman 4 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Our plague year; Updike Award for Student Type Design; Resources—finding things: Identifying a font, (LA)TEX Q&A — TopTeX; Thoughts on asking questions in a public forum 7 Reporting bugs for Don Knuth (as soon as possible) / Karl Berry Software & Tools 8 Beyond Trip and Trap: Testing the urtext WEB sources / David Fuchs Humanities 12 Grapholinguistics, TEX, and a June 2020 conference / Yannis Haralambous Tutorials 20 The DuckBoat — Beginners’ Pond: You do not need to be Neo to cope with a TikZ matrix / Carla Maggi Accessibility 26 Creating accessible pdfs with LATEX / Ulrike Fischer A L TEX 29 LATEX3 news, issue 11, February 2018 / LATEX Project Team 31 LATEX3 news, issue 12, January 2020 / LATEX Project Team 34 LATEX news, issue 31, February 2020 / LATEX Project Team 39 Case changing: From TEX primitives to the Unicode algorithm / Joseph Wright 43 TEX, LATEX and math / Enrico Gregorio 54 The fewerfloatpages package / Frank Mittelbach Multilingual 69 Typesetting the Bangla script with LuaLATEX / Ulrike Fischer, Marcel Kr¨uger Document Processing Typography 71 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Methods 73 An attempt at ragged-right typesetting / Udo Wermuth 95 Webnotes: Practical approaches / David Walden Questions 97 Reading 29,000 COVID-19 papers / Jonathan Fine Book Reviews 98 About The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 5 / David Walden 102 Book review: History of Desktop Publishing, by Frank Romano / David Walden Abstracts 106 ArsTEXnica: Contents of issues 27–28 (April and October 2019) 108 Zpravodaj : Contents of issue 2019/1–4 109 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issue 4/2019 Hints & Tricks 110 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Cartoon 112 Comic: Typographic map Hyphe-nation / John Atkinson TUG Business 2 TUGboat editorial information 2 TUG institutional members 113 TUG financial statements for 2019 / Karl Berry Advertisements 114 TEX consulting and production services News 115 TEX Live 2020 news / Karl Berry 116 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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John Henderson’s Flo- rence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Boris Veytsman Modern City (Yale, 2019), recently reviewed by Erin I am writing this letter in March 2020 amid the Maglaque in the London Review of Books (42:4, preparation for the coming coronavirus outbreak. 2020), is a good companion to the Decameron. While Here in the San Francisco Bay Area schools are the science of the 13th century did not provide much closed, theaters, museums and libraries are shuttered, knowledge about the plague (the role of fleas was sporting events and conferences are canceled. Some discovered much later), the steps taken by the city people, including me, are privileged to be able to health board Sanit´a are impressive and very rational.