TUGBOAT Volume 38, Number 1 / 2017 General Delivery 3 President’s note / Jim Hefferon 5 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton iTEX lives!; LATEX tutorials; The Go fonts; METAFONT at 32; From TUG’16, more from Joe Clark 7 Interview with Scott Pakin / David Walden 10 What’s a Professor of Neurology doing using LATEX? / David Teplow Typography 16 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn 18 Review and summaries: The History of Typographic Writing — The 20th century Volume 1, from 1900 to 1950 / Charles Bigelow Software & Tools 23 SILE: A new typesetting system / Simon Cozens Fonts 28 BaskervilleF / Michael Sharpe Resources 31 Programming LATEX — A survey of documentation and packages / Brian Dunn 34 CTAN goes 2.0 — New community features and more / Gerd Neugebauer Tutorials 39 An introduction to the LATEX cross-referencing system / Thomas Thurnherr 41 How to use basic color models in LATEX / Behzad Salimi Electronic Documents 44 SageMathCloud for collaborative document editing and scientific computing / Hal Snyder 48 Producing HTML directly from LATEX — the lwarp package / Brian Dunn A L TEX 54 LATEX news, issue 26, January 2017 / LATEX Project Team 56 LATEX3 news, issue 10, November 2016 / LATEX Project Team 58 A key/value interface for generating LATEX floats — the keyfloat package / Brian Dunn 61 Glisterings: Hanging; Safety in numbers / Peter Wilson Methods 65 The optimal value for \emergencystretch / Udo Wermuth Hints & Tricks 87 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Book Reviews 89 Book review: More Math Into LATEX, 5th edition, by George Gr¨atzer / Jim Hefferon 90 Book review: The Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers by Jerry Kelly and Misha Beletsky / Boris Veytsman 92 Book review: Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing by Matthew G. 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