The Communications of the TeX Users Group TUGboat 29:1, 2008

EuroBachoTeX 2007 Proceedings

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Front cover	c1
Title page	1
EuroTeX 2007
EuroTeX 2007 conference delegates and sponsors	2
EuroTeX 2007 program	4
EuroBachoTeX 2007: Paths to the Future   Jerzy Ludwichowski and Petr Sojka     [Introductory — introduction to the conference and proceedings]	6
EuroTeX 2007 photos	8
Confessions of a teenage TeX user   Sam Guravage     [Introductory — report on the talk, with photos]	13
Typography
Handmade paper: A mixture of handcraft, art and fun   Grażyna Jackowska     [Introductory — report on a papermaking workshop, with photos]	14
Designing a special book: With both pleasure and … fear   Andrzej Tomaszewski     [Introductory — creation of a commemorative edition for the Warsaw Waterworks jubilee]   High-resolution pdf.	16
Enumerations as an interesting form of text appearance   Dorota Cendrowska     [Introductory — classical and modern formatting of enumerations]	20
Fonts
Five years after: Report on international TeX font projects   Jerzy Ludwichowski, Bogusław Jackowski and Janusz Nowacki     [Introductory — status and samples of these two major font projects]	25
Cyklop: A new font family   Janusz Nowacki     [Introductory — a heavy sans serif oblique for titling and displays]	27
Do we need a font system in TeX?   Hans Hagen     [Intermediate — reflections on the font system in TeX generally, ConTeXt specifically, and coming changes]	28
OpenType fonts in LuaTeX   Taco Hoekwater     [Intermediate — overview of the state of reading OpenType directly from LuaTeX]	34
Font-specific issues in pdfTeX   Hàn Thế Thành     [Intermediate — microtypography, letterspacing, interword spacing, character kerning, subfont, runpdftex]	36
Those obscure accents …   Karel Horák     [Introductory — discussion and comparison of the many versions of caron (háček) accents]	42
Creation of a PostScript Type1 logo font with MetaType1   Klaus Höppner     [Intermediate — tutorial for implementing a font with MetaType1]	45
Procedures for font comparison   Karel Píška     [Intermediate Plus — tools and examples for detailed comparison of glyphs, kerns, and more]	50
Comments and suggestions about the Latin Modern fonts   Karel Píška     [Intermediate Plus — comparisons among Latin Modern, Computer Modern, and the Czech/Slovak CS fonts]	57
The GUST Font License: An application of the LaTeX Project Public License   Jerzy Ludwichowski and Karl Berry     [Introductory — using the LPPL (with an additional request) for fonts]	66
Resources
A brief history of TeX, volume II   Arthur Reutenauer     [Introductory — recapitulation of TeX origins, evolution, and descendants]	68
Overview of the TeX historic archive   Ulrik Vieth     [Introductory — preserving TeX distributions and packages for software archaeologists]	73
TeX Clinic   Joanna Ludmiła Ryćko     [Introductory — overview of the TeX help clinic available at Bachotek and via email]	77
Multilingual Document Processing
Parameterized Arabic font development for AlQalam   Ameer Sherif and Hossam Fahmy     [Intermediate Plus — achieving high-quality Arabic typesetting through Metafont pens and drawing]	79
Nastaleeq: A challenge accepted by Omega   Atif Gulzar and Shafiq ur Rahman     [Intermediate Plus — implementing the Urdu script in Omega]	89
Typesetting Vietnamese with VnTeX (and with the TeX Gyre fonts too)   Hàn Thế Thành     [Intermediate — introduction to typesetting Vietnamese in TeX]	95
Managing order relations in MlBibTeX   Jean-Michel Hufflen     [Intermediate Plus — handling language-specific lexicographic orderings]	101
Electronic Documents
Introducing LaTeX users to XSL-FO   Jean-Michel Hufflen     [Intermediate — concise introduction to XSL-FO with comparisons to LaTeX]	109
Using TeX in a wiki   Tomasz Łuczak     [Introductory — overview of using TeX as a back-end for PDF production from a wiki]	117
Publishing
Single-source publishing in multiple formats for different output devices   Petr Sojka and Michal Růžička     [Intermediate — using high-level markup, pdfLaTeX, and TeX4ht for multiple output formats]	118
Practical journal and proceedings publication on paper and on the web   Péter Szabó     [Intermediate — techniques and advice for editorial workflow and production operations]	125
Software & Tools
An experimental CTAN upload process   Jim Hefferon     [Intermediate — a cooperative web-based CTAN (and TeX Live) package processing method]	133
TeX (Live) on Debian   Norbert Preining     [Intermediate — usage of TeX on Debian, including package and font installation]	136
Epspdf: Easy conversion between PostScript and PDF   Siep Kroonenberg     [Introductory — command-line and GUI interface to convenient graphics conversion]	140
pdfTeX 1.40: What's new   Martin Schröder     [Intermediate — overview of new features: JBIG2, color stacks, transformation matrices, and more]	143
XeTeX Live   Jonathan Kew     [Introductory — XeTeX's incorporation in TeX Live 2007, and further developments]	146
Conventional scoping of registers — An experiment in exTeX   Gerd Neugebauer     [Advanced — alternative localization of registers via the Java infrastructure of exTeX]	151
MlBibTeX: Reporting the experience   Jean-Michel Hufflen     [Intermediate Plus — discussing design and implementation choices of the MlBibTeX program]	157
Writing (La)TeX documents with AUCTeX in Emacs   David Kastrup     [Introductory — introduction to the AUCTeX Emacs facilities, and download locations]	163
LyX: An editor not just for secretaries   Tomasz Łuczak     [Introductory — overview of LyX, an editor for TeX with a graphical interface]	164
Publishing
Automated DVD menu authoring with pdfLaTeX   Péter Szabó     [Intermediate — creating standard DVDs with menus created in LaTeX]	166
LaTeX
Graphics in LaTeX using TikZ   Zofia Walczak     [Introductory — introduction to TikZ for drawing graphics directly in LaTeX]	176
LaTeX vs. LaTeX — a modification of the logo   Grzegorz Murzynowski     [Introductory — a LaTeX logo definition that self-adjusts to many fonts]	180
Benefits, care and feeding of the bigfoot package   David Kastrup     [Intermediate — improved page breaking and other footnote enhancements]	181
MathPSfrag: LaTeX labels in Mathematica plots   Johannes Große     [Intermediate Plus — typographically consistent labels for Mathematica plots, using PDF or PostScript]	184
makematch, a LaTeX package for pattern matching with wildcards   David Kastrup     [Advanced — efficient pattern matching supporting * and !]	190
qstest, a LaTeX package for unit tests   David Kastrup     [Advanced — extensive unit testing functionality, including embedding in dtx files]	193
Macros
gmverse and gmcontinuo — some nontrivial placement of text on a page   Grzegorz Murzynowski     [Intermediate — optical centering and right alignment of verses; continuous paragraph setting]	199
The gmdoc bundle — a new tool for documenting (La)TeX sources   Grzegorz Murzynowski     [Intermediate Plus — an enhanced reimplementation of doc]	201
Hints & Tricks
TeX beauties and oddities   Paweł Jackowski     [Advanced — the 2007 edition of TeX pearls]       Péter Szabó: A TeX quine;       Hans Hagen: Multi-signed numbers;       Jerzy Ludwichowski: Double-hat trap;       Paweł Jackowski: \vbox height vs. \vtop depth;       Paweł Jackowski: (Ir)relevant missing character message;       Paweł Jackowski: Skip assignments;       Bogusław Jackowski: Current font global assignment;       Marcin Woliński: How to make a box disappear at a line break;       Bogusław Jackowski: Variable-width visible space;       Marcin Woliński: Do you need some stretch?;       Bogusław Jackowski: MetaPost tables indexed with strings;       Marcin Woliński: Multiple expansions triggered with a single \expandafter;       Grzegorz Murzynowski: Hacking verbatim;       Paweł Jackowski: Custom overfull text.	207
Puzzle
Crossword   Janusz Nowacki     [Advanced]	216
Abstracts
Hagen, Hoekwater, Kastrup, Lotz, Moore, Ryćko, Tomaszewski   Presentations.	217
ConTeXt
ConTeXt basics for users: Table macros II   Aditya Mahajan     [Introductory — further overview of making tables in ConTeXt]	219
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TeX consulting and production services	223
TUG Business
Institutional members	223
In memoriam Bernard Gaulle   Maurice Laugier	224