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TUGBOAT Volume 37, Number 3 / 2016 TUGBOAT Volume 37, Number 3 / 2016 General Delivery 255 President’s note / Jim Hefferon 256 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton R.I.P. Kris Rose, 1965–2016; A book fair... and another passing; Some typography links to follow; Another honor for Don Knuth; A fitting memorial for Sebastian Rahtz; Second annual Updike Prize for student type design; Talk by Fiona Ross 259 Interview with Federico Garcia-De Castro / David Walden Typography 264 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn Software & Tools 267 LuaTEX version 1.0.0 / Hans Hagen 269 LuaTEX 0.82 OpenType math enhancements / Hans Hagen Electronic 275 Introducing LaTeX Base / Gareth Aye Documents 277 Computer Modern Roman fonts for ebooks / Martin Ruckert Graphics 281 When (image) size matters / Peter Willadt Survey 284 A survey of the history of musical notation / Werner Lemberg Fonts 305 Colorful emojis via Unicode and OpenType / Hans Hagen 306 Cowfont (koeieletters) update / Taco Hoekwater and Hans Hagen 311 Corrections for slanted stems in METAFONT and METAPOST / Linus Romer 317 GUST e-foundry font projects / Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk, Piotr Pianowski A L TEX 337 Localisation of TEX documents: tracklang / Nicola Talbot 352 Glisterings: Index headers; Numerations; Real number comparison / Peter Wilson Macros 357 Messing with endnotes / David Walden 358 Tracing paragraphs / Udo Wermuth Hints & Tricks 374 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Cartoon 376 An asterisk’s lament / John Atkinson Abstracts 377 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issues 2–3/2016 TUG Business 254 TUGboat editorial information 254 TUG institutional members 378 TUG 2015 election Advertisements 379 TEX consulting and production services News 380 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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