TUGBOAT Volume 26, Number 1 / 2005 Practical TEX 2005 Conference Proceedings General Delivery 3 Karl Berry / From the president 3 Barbara Beeton / Editorial comments Old TUGboat issues go electronic; CTAN anouncement archives; Another LATEX manual — for word processor users; Create your own alphabet; Type design exhibition “Letras Latinas”; The cost of a bad proofreader; Looking at the same text in different ways: CSS on the web; Some comments on mathematical typesetting 5 Barbara Beeton / Hyphenation exception log A L TEX 7 Pedro Quaresma / Stacks in TEX Graphics 10 Denis Roegel / Kissing circles: A French romance in MetaPost Software & Tools 17 Tristan Miller / Using the RPM package manager for (LA)TEX packages Practical TEX 2005 29 Conference program, delegates, and sponsors 31 Peter Flom and Tristan Miller / Impressions from PracTEX’05 Keynote 33 Nelson Beebe / The design of TEX and METAFONT: A retrospective Talks 52 Peter Flom / ALATEX fledgling struggles to take flight 56 Anita Schwartz / The art of LATEX problem solving 59 Klaus H¨oppner / Strategies for including graphics in LATEX documents 63 Joseph Hogg / Making a booklet 66 Peter Flynn / LATEX on the Web 68 Andrew Mertz and William Slough / Beamer by example 74 Kaveh Bazargan / Batch Commander: A graphical user interface for TEX 81 David Ignat / Word to LATEX for a large, multi-author scientific paper 85 Tristan Miller / Biblet: A portable BIBTEX bibliography style for generating highly customizable XHTML 97 Abstracts (Allen, Burt, Fehd, Gurari, Janc, Kew, Peter) News 99 Calendar TUG Business 104 Institutional members Advertisements 104 TEX consulting and production services 101 Silmaril Consultants 101 Joe Hogg 101 Carleton Production Centre 102 Personal TEX, Inc. 102 River Valley Technologies 102 Design Science, Inc. 102 The LATEX Companion, 2nd edition, by Frank Mittelbach et al. 103 Steve Peter 103 Cheryl Ponchin Training 103 MacKichan Software, Inc. 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[printing date: August 2005] Practical TEX 2005 Proceedings Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA June 14–17, 2005 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP TUGBOAT EDITOR BARBARA BEETON PROCEEDINGS EDITOR KARL BERRY VOLUME 26, NUMBER 1 • 2005 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board This issue (Vol. 26, No. 1) combines regular articles Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief and other material with the Practical TEX 2005 Robin Laakso, Managing Editor conference proceedings. Mimi Burbank, Production Manager TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of mem- Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros bership to all TUG members. It is also available Alan Hoenig, Associate Editor, Fonts to non-members in printed form through the TUG Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, store (http://tug.org/store), and online at the Topics in the Humanities TUGboat web site, http://tug.org/TUGboat. 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