TUGBOAT Volume 36, Number 3 / 2015

TUGBOAT Volume 36, Number 3 / 2015

TUGBOAT Volume 36, Number 3 / 2015 General Delivery 179 From the Board of Directors / TEX Users Group Board 180 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Help wanted — The UK TEX FAQ; B&H and the Wingdings font; Choice of font does make a difference; Safe TEX; More help wanted: Unicode symbol names in languages other than English; What is a template?; Still more help wanted: The LATEX Wikibook 182 Adrian Frutiger, 1928–2015 / Norbert Preining 184 Thomas Koch, 1964–2014 / Joachim Schrod 185 DANTE e.V. 2015 meeting reports / Stefan Kottwitz Education 188 TEX in schools: Just Say Yes! / Simon Laube Fonts 190 Smoky letters / Linus Romer 191 About the DK versions of Lucida / Charles Bigelow Publishing 200 History of cookbooks / Taco Hoekwater Typography 208 Typographers’ Inn / Peter Flynn A L TEX 210 LATEX news, issue 22, January 2015 / LATEX Project Team 212 LATEX news, issue 23, October 2015 / LATEX Project Team 214 Introduction to list structures in LATEX / Thomas Thurnherr 217 gradstudentresume: A document class for graduate student CVs / Anagha Kumar 220 Glisterings: Longest string; Marching along; A blank argument; A centered table of contents / Peter Wilson 227 Chemistry in LATEX2ε — an overview of existing packages and possibilities / Clemens Niederberger Software & Tools 234 Automating LATEX(3) testing / Joseph Wright 237 Two applications of SWIGLIB: GraphicsMagick and Ghostscript / Luigi Scarso Macros 243 Typesetting the “Begriffsschrift” by Gottlob Frege in plain TEX / Udo Wermuth 257 GMOA, the ‘General Manipulation Of Arguments’: An extension to the l3expan package of the expl3 bundle and language / Grzegorz Murzynowski Hints & Tricks 268 Production notes / Karl Berry 269 The treasure chest / Karl Berry Reviews 271 An online glossary of typographic terms by Janie Kliever / Boris Veytsman Abstracts 272 GUST: EuroBachoTEX 2015 proceedings 273 Die TEXnische Kom¨odie: Contents of issue 4/2015 Cartoon 274 Jim Benton / A summons TUG Business 274 TUG institutional members Advertisements 275 TEX consulting and production services News 276 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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The following list Copyright to individual articles within this publication of trademarks which commonly appear in TUGboat remains with their authors, so the articles may not be reproduced, distributed or translated without the should not be considered complete. authors’ permission. TEX is a trademark of American Mathematical Society. METAFONT For the editorial and other material not ascribed to a is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. particular author, permission is granted to make and PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, provided the copyright notice and this permission notice [printing date: November 2015] are preserved. Printed in U.S.A. Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute translations of such editorial material into another language, except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the original English permission notice must be included. [The Belgian typographer Fernand Baudin] claims that literacy involves not only a knowledge of how to form letters and assemble them into strings, but also an understanding of how to organize the elements of the text into a coherent visual structure. Charles Bigelow, in the Foreword to How Typography Works (and why it is important), by Fernand Baudin (1989) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 36, NUMBER 3 • 2015 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. 178 TUGboat, Volume 36 (2015), No. 3 TUGboat editorial information TUGboat editorial board This regular issue (Vol. 36, No. 3) is the last issue Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief of the 2015 volume year. Karl Berry, Production Manager TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of member- Boris Veytsman, Associate Editor, Book Reviews TUG ship to all current members. 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