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Space- and time-effective segmentation (word hyphenation) of natural languages remains at the core of every document rendering system, be it TEX, web browser, or mobile operating system. In most languages, segmentation mimicking syllabic pronunciation is a pragmatic preference today. As language switching is often not marked in rendered texts, the typesetting engine needs universal syllabic segmentation. In this article, we show the feasibility of this idea by offering a prototype solution to two main problems: A) Using Patgen to generate patterns for several languages at once; and B) no wide character support in tools like Patgen or TEX hyphenation, e.g. internal Unicode support is missing. For A), we have applied it to generating universal syllabic patterns from wordlists of nine syllabic, as opposed to etymology-based, languages (namely, Czech, Slovak, Georgian, Greek, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Turkmen, and Ukrainian). For B), we have created a version of Patgen that uses the Judy array data structure and compared its effectiveness with the trie implementation. With the data from these nine languages, we show that: A) developing universal, up-to-date, high-coverage, and highly generalized universal syllabic segmentation patterns is possible, with high impact on virtually all typesetting engines, including web page renderers; and B) bringing wide character support into the hyphenation part of the TEX suite of programs is possible by using Judy arrays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Malayalam is an Indic script with numerous shape-shifting characters. We explore a reusable component-based design for Malayalam fonts, and develop them using METAFONT/METAPOST [6, 1] to assemble the characters. We discuss the paradigm shift from GUI design tools to 'code-based' design of shapes and glyphs, even by non-coders, and the advantages and challenges of using METAFONT/METAPOST to develop an OpenType font for a complex script. Finally, the progress made by our small team is shared. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I present a schema for translating TEX primitives to HTML/CSS. This translation can serve as a basis for (very) low-level TEX-to-HTML converters, and is in fact used by the RUSTEX system--a (somewhat experimental) implementation of a TEX engine in Rust, used to convert LATEX documents to HTML-- for that purpose. Notably, the schema is accurate enough to yield surprisingly decent (and surprisingly often "the exactly right") results on surprisingly many "high-level" LATEX macros, which makes it adequate to use in lieu of (and often even instead of) dedicated support for macros and packages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Primo is a cutting-edge, cloud-based authoring, submission, and proofing framework that provides a sustainable solution for academic publishing. It combines the advantages of XML-based workflows that facilitate controlled authoring and/or editing in accordance with specific DTDs and house styles, with the visually appealing and mathematically precise typesetting language of TEX, enabling the creation of high-quality PDFs and mathematical images (offering an alternative to MathML coding). By speaking the widely accepted communicating lingua franca of mathematics and science (i.e., TEX), and utilizing the XML/MathML format for archiving, Primo has the potential to revolutionize the publishing industry. This tool caters to both the author and the publisher, bringing their needs together with enhanced participation of authors in the publishing process. The three main modules of Primo include Authoring, Submission/Reviewing, and Proofing, all of which are equipped with usability checks during submission, a collaborative editing feature, a WYSIWYG math editing tool, and publisher/journal-based PDF manuscript rendering. With Primo, authors can be assured that their work will be published with the highest level of precision and quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The LATEX Tagged PDF project was started in spring 2020 and announced to the TEX community by the LATEX Team at the Online TUG Conference 2020 [9]. This short report describes the progress and status of this multi-year project achieved with the LATEX summer release 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We present ETAP, a platform designed to support both demonstration of, and experimentation with digital typesetting, interactively, and in real-time. ETAP provides a GUI which currently focuses on all aspects involved in paragraph formatting. A number of pre-processing features can be switched on or off (hyphenation, kerning, ligaturing, etc.). A specific paragraph formatting scheme may be selected from a pool of ready-made algorithms, and adding new algorithms to that pool is easy. Each algorithm comes with its own set of configuration parameters, and the GUI allows you to tweak those parameters and observe the effects in real-time. ETAP may also be used without, or in parallel with the GUI. While the application is running, the whole programmatic infrastructure is manipulable from a command-line interface. This allows inspection of the various typesetting objects normally displayed by the GUI, and also to perform computations with them, for example, data collection and statistical measurements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the course of the last year(s), the Island of TEX has received quite some interest in its Docker containers. This article gives a brief overview about our container infrastructure for TEX Live and ConTEXt, including some examples on using our containers in production environments. Last but not least, we will elaborate on some interesting (mostly still open) problems connected to containerizing TEX Live. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The HINT file format [5] was presented at TUG 2019 [4], and at TUG 2020 [6], the first usable viewer for HINT files was presented. The HiTEX engine became part of TEX Live in 2022. This presentation will explore the changes that have taken place since then and what to expect in the future. This article will • explain the improvements in glyph rendering in more recent versions of the HINT file viewer; • describe the use of links, labels, and outlines; • present hints on how to design TEX macros for variable page sizes; • and discuss the capabilities of the HINT file format to convert pages to plain text for searching or text-to-speech processing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Overleaf has both a Code editor and a Visual ("Rich Text") editor. We recently redesigned the Visual editor. Benefits, drawbacks, and specific issues this editor duality poses will be presented, together with some takeaways we have learned on the way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the development of electronic typesetting systems. Overview of the history of typesetting; Mechanization of typesetting in the 19th century; Use of cathode ray tube in electronic typesetting.

Mathscout is a mathematica 1 [1] mathematica is a registered trademark of Wolfram Research Inc. package to postprocess the output of other programs for scientific calculations. We wrote mathscout to import data from a major program for ab initio computational chemistry into mathematica, so that we could postprocess the chemical results. It can be used to import the output of many other packages that are used, e.g. in molecular dynamics, crystallography, spectroscopic analysis, metabolic and physiological modeling, meteorology and other areas of environmental science, cosmology and particle physics. mathscout assigns a name to each table and non-tabular datum that it extracts. This name is constructed mechanically from the identifier or phrase that precedes or follows or embeds the item in the output that mathscout processes. A selection of non-contiguous items, or all the items in a section of the file, or in the entire file are extracted using simple commands. So far, we have focused on our immediate needs to postprocess the output of the Gaussian 2 [2] gaussian is a registered trademark of Gaussian Inc. program. Calculations on several molecules that illustrate the usage of the package are presented here and in the Supplementary Information. mathscout is shortened to msct in the software. Program summary: Program title: msct.m Catalogue identifier: ADZQ_v1_0 Program summary URL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/ADZQ_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen''s University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: Standard CPC licence, http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/licence/licence.html No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 30 396 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 1 799 469 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: Mathematica Computer: Any computer running unix and Mathematica Operating system: Unix Supplementary material: The Development guide Classification: 4.14, 5, 16.1, 20 Nature of problem: Import data from output files of scientific computing packages, such as Gaussian, into Mathematica for symbolic calculation and production of publication quality tables and plots. Solution method: Provision of mnemonic top-down parsing procedures, functional programming. Running time: The complete extraction of data from a small basis density functional calculation on the water molecule, and from a larger basis density functional calculation on the zinc hydrate ion, that ran to 33 iterations, took 1 second and 23 seconds, respectively, on a Dell Poweredge 1750. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

The article offers tips on three dimensional (3D) typesetting. It offers a basic example of 3D modeling. It suggests a way to pick a letter out of a video scene. It cites the advantage of a 3D title that is properly designed.

The article reports on the development of electronic typesetting in production and printing processes in the U.S. It highlights the application of computerized typesetting in assembling and sorting McGraw-Hill Book Cos.' "Electronics Buyers' Guide for 1965," a directory of electronic manufacturers. It explains that apart from its savings in printing and production, the new typesetting process is also beneficial in arranging computer-sorted data and making corrections and editions.

The article discusses the development of electronic alphabet and its impact on the print industry in Great Britain. The creation of electronic alphabet has been a great challenge to the developers of communication and computing devices to create a system that could enable machines to recognize typefaces and handwriting. Timothy Epps of the National Physical Laboratory identified three possible approaches on the problem such as building machines for text recognition and develop characters symbols to be recognized by humans and another is creating machines capable of recognizing different typefaces and styles of writing. Wim Crouwel, a type designer, proposes an experimental New Alphabet that consist of radical simplified letterforms with the idea of case sensitivity and orthography.

Provides tips on how to create a holiday newsletter. Benefits of following the editing and typesetting rules; Importance of dividing the page; Emphasis on focusing one's attention to details; Advantages of checking one's work. INSET: Choose fonts wisely..

By Caroline Halliday Buyers who want to add fonts to their LaserJet-compatible printers can be overwhelmed by the choices. Options include font cartridges and many types of soft fonts. Font […]

The article discusses the functions of the TeX typsetting system developed by Don Knuth in 1977. Topics discussed include the history of TeX typeset, use of TeX in academic and scientific publishing and advantages of using TeX in linguistics. Also discussed are the features of TeX derivative LaTeX, platforms for TeX and LaTeX and advantages of using TeX with the mobile application Archimedes.

This article provides information on the types of indents in the Corel WordPerfect 11. The three most common types are single indent, double indent and hanging indent. The single indent shifts every line within that paragraph to the next tab setting, which is common when beginning a new paragraph. The double indent brings in the paragraph one tab setting from both side margins, which is a good choice for particularly long or important text. A hanging indent moves all but the first line in by half an inch.