Questions tagged [tugboat]
TUGboat is the journal of the TeX Users Group (TUG). Questions marked with this tag should be about the content or history of the journal, its online availability, or closely related topics.
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Error reproducing an example
I am trying to reproduce the example from this awesome article (link). This is my first code in Metapost and I am getting an error running the following code:
prologues := 3; % set up MetaPost for EPS ...
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Question in Stephan's TUGboat article about \expandafter
In the first page of Stephan Bechtolshein's TUGboat article about \expandafter, he described the rules of the execution of \expandafter.
I think the case iii should not be listed here since the ...
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Legal status of past TUGBoat papers
I hope the question is acceptable here. Is it possible to upload past TUGboat papers on Institutional Open Archives to guarantee a permanent and open storage with a persistent identifier?
An example: ...
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Package guit with ltugboat gives an error
This MWE
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass[final]{ltugboat}
\usepackage{guit}
\begin{document}
It worked a week ago
\GuITmeeting[style=inline,year=2019]!
\end{document}
gives this error
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hyperref gives error with ltugboat document class
This simple MWE:
% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass[final]{ltugboat}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
prova
\end{document}
gives this error:
! Undefined control sequence.
l.4767 \ifdim\...
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How to get the same output as in TUGBoat article "Tracing paragraphs"?
Recently I began to read a very interesting TUGBoat article "Tracing paragraphs" by Udo Wermuth.
There is the example-1 from the article (with header and footer added by logic considerations):
\...
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Looking for page 98 of TUGboat, volume 5 (1984), No 2
The page 98 of the above mentioned issue of TUGboat is missing from the tug.org archives (TeXtensions by Jacques Désarménien).
Can I get it somewhere?
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Where can we read the TUGboat, the journal of the TeX Users Group?
The journal called TUGboat is the principal publication of the TeX Users Group (TUG). It exists since 1980 and is currently published three times a year. It contains technical articles as well as ...
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Where can I find (TUGboat 4 supplement) "TeX and METAFONT: Errata and changes" from 1983?
In a few places one finds a reference to the following document:
Barbara Beeton (ed), “TeX and METAFONT: Errata and Changes” (dated 09 September 11, 1983), Distributed with TUGboat, Volume 4, 1983.
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What is the impact factor of TUGboat?
Wikipedia defines the impact factor as follows:
The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent ...
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TUG 2016 July 25-27 [closed]
I know that some of you will give talks at this year TUG to be held July 25-27 in Toronto, Canada. For the first time in my life I am actually couple hours drive from the venue and I am contemplating ...
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Is there any TugStatus (since there is StackStatus...)
The TeX Users Group website seems to be down just now: http://tug.org/
Is there any way to know what is going on? Maybe something similar to StackStatus (either the website or the twitter account) ...
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What are the benefits of joining TUG, the TeX Users Group?
As a member of TUG, the TeX Users Group, I recently received an email about a new membership drive in hopes of reversing the trend of a slowly declining membership. I know one can learn more about TUG ...
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Where can I find submission and style guidelines for TUGboat?
I'm looking at writing a short piece for TUGboat. I've read "The LaTeX2e TUGboat Macros", and "Quick Tips" and "Advice" in this document but still have some style/markup questions:
Is it necessary or ...
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Up-to-date TUGboat bibliography database
Where can I find machine-readable bibliographic data for at least all publicly-available TUGboat articles?
I've found CTAN:/info/digests/tugboat/t-of-c/, but that doesn't seem to have been updated ...
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