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E6 MAPS 39 Kees van der Laan What TEX&Co education is available? Searching the internet with TeX education as keywords yielded no o-the-shelf courses. When I added the keyword tutorial I found the good-looking L ATEX tutorial from the Indian TEX User group. Possibly the law of diminishing returns applies: our TEX tutorials are provided on the actual TEX Collection DVD and the outdated4AllTEXCDs,andstoredintheTEXarchivesof old, founded in the pre-WWW time, read before HTML appeared, if not in books. Times have changed. An eective way to make oneself known these days is by WWW pages, with keywords to be spotted by search engines. With respect to MetaPost I found via Google a nice tutorial by A. Heck: MetaPost by doing, published in MAPS of 2005. I know of Hans Hagen’s MetaFun, but a link to his MetaPost work did not show up in Google. Also the work of Troy Henderson with his MetaPost introduction, embraced by TUG, and his MP-previewer accessible via the internet, is worth mentioning. In fact helped me alot. An interesting PostScript tutorial I found under Dev Central,whichismuchinthestyleofmyJust a little bit of PostScript, MAPS96.2.DevCentralalsoprovides forother interestingtutorials. History has it, that TEX related courses are oered along with the TUG, EuroTEX, or LUG meetings. With thisEuroTEXannouncementImissedsubscriptionforms for classes, but maybe that is not special for a EuroTEX nowadays. While this paper was underway the participants of EuroTEX received an invitation to participate in a Math Content Workshop. In the program I found L ATEX for beginners, and open sessions around ConTEXt. At the conference a tutorial on layers in ConTEXt was organized. S. Kroonenberg reported about her TEX network job at the economy department of the University of Groningen. The status and plans for ConTEXt and LuaTEX were discussed in evening sessions. The news with respect to MetaPost, SVG graphics, transparency, multiple precision...wasgivenby TacoHoekwater. FormethebigthingwasthatIhadmissedcompletely, in the past seven years of my TEX inactivity, the incorporation ofOpenType fonts inTEX&Co. Conclusion: no TEX&Co classes are oered in general. If for comparison one searches the internet for courseware or tutorials for ADOBEs Creative Suite, a wealth of entries will appear. The unorganized world out there, in addition to Adobe itself, contributes tutorials, videos andsimilar to useforfree. Education in NTG In the beginning of NTG we had working groups. The educationWorkingGrouporganizedaL ATEXcoursewith courseware Publiceren met L ATEX, in Dutch. I was the SGML teacher at the Stanford 10 years of TEX and MF TUG meeting. At Stanford I attended Dough Henderson’s MF class. At the conference I met Amy Hendrickson and invited her to teach plain TEX in Holland. Later we had courses with David Salomon and BogusłavJackovskiasteachersforTEX,respectivelyMF. 1 A teacher is usually talkative as must be, but for the intermediate and lower level a teacher must also be a good listener, especially to nd out about (mental) blockades,or misunderstandings andremove these. Amy, Bogus, and David were paid for their teaching and enjoyed hospitality at my place at my costs. During the Boston TUG meeting I visited AMS and invited MichaelDownesandRalphYoungentotellusinHolland about how AMS supports their authors. I studied the clever AMS formats and styles, and criticized their too clever macro writingtechnique inmy AMS BLUes. The4AllTEXCDeorthadastrongeducationalavor. The EuroTEX bus project I consider also educational, where NTG, with the help of GUST’s Julita Bolland, facilitated20+ GUST,20+CyrTUG,6CSTUGmembers,and one Hungarian lady, G˝yongi, to participate in the ArnhemEuroTEX.HansHagen’sConTEXtiswidespreadand the accompanying wealth of documentation is highly educational. ForTEX&Coimportantmaterialcanbefoundvia theexcellentWWWpagesoftheTEXusergroups. Oneonlyhasto know that! M.C. Escher ← Knot CGL’s → Sortof A weak point is the absence of links to good (free) TEX tutorials onthe WWW.
TEX Education EUROTEX 2009 E7 Is there a need for TEX&Co courses? Much self-study material is available, to start with the TEXbook and the MFbook, next to excellent tutorials. Courses are nevertheless necessary, IMHO, because of thecomplexity.Moreover,Iconsiderself-studynotsucient, evendangerous. Apparently the public does not ask forcourses. Education material on TEX Live DVD Nowadays, we have AnyTEX&Co on our PCs at home, such as the L ATEX-biased Integrated Development Environment, TEXnicCenter, distributed on the TEX CollectionDVD.However,asplainTEXie,Imissedintheoutput dropdownwindowTEX→pdfandilks.Itshouldnotbeso dicult to add that, tho plain TEXies form a minority. Please do. More dicult, I presume, is to provide for MetaPost processing from within TEX. Both are necessary for my proposal with respect to a MasterClass. At the conference I became aware of TEXshop on the Mac OS X+ and Jonathan Kew’s TEXworks IDE in the spirit of TEXshop under Linux andWindows XP. The public domain TEX program, distributed on the TEX CollectionDVD,comesalongwithawealthofdocumentation, software and books, which allow for self-study of the open and public domain programs AnyTEX&Co, while for advanced questions one may consult FAQs, or discussion lists with their archived earlier discussions. I consider this a tremendous development, benecial, except for the lack of standards in TEXing, and that it is not enough for a casual visitor of the internet, who likes to get started, despite the excellent active installation PDF documents in your language. However, self-study can be dangerous, but. . . in the absence of courses there is no choice. A standard in TEXing in the free TEX world ismost likely not realistic,alas. But... we mighttry. Pluriform macro writing emerged, inhibiting readability, as the most obvious characteristic. No programmingparadigms,despiteKnuth’sexamplemacrowriting intheTEXbook:macroswhichconstituteplain.tex,and macros to mark up a letter, concert, or a book, and his gkppic line-diagram macros in plain TEX, related to L ATEXs picture environment, 2 which were used for typesetting his Concrete Mathematics. No path nor picture datastructures,nocolorandnollingofarbitraryclosed curves. The manmac macros were created to typeset the TEXbook and ilks, and likely his The Art of Computer Programming œuvre. In 4AllTEX, in the TeX directory GENERIC,macrosarecollected,suchasthe midnightsuite byvanderGootnexttomacrosbyEijkhout, . . .Nostress on paradigms. The TEX Collection DVD contains a copy oftheComprehensiveTEXarchive,the CTAN.Searching withkeyword BLUe yielded nomatch. 3 Education issues Education turns around: language, awareness, insight, TEXnique proper, courseware, and the personality of the teacher. Language A fundamental aspect in general education is language, it is the basis. Everybody speaks a language, can read and write, and may publish easily nowadays via the WWW.Languageservesalifetime!Languageuencyisa prerequisiteforparticipationinaculture,isfundamental incommunication.Languageliesattheheartofpublications. TheTEXbookspendsseveralchaptersonjusttypesetting text,dealswiththe variety of type faces accented characters ligatures hyphenation lineandpage breaking, structuringcommands . . . TEX is well-suited for typesetting all sort of languages, not just those based on Latin fonts. A fundamental assumption, next to the basic boxes and glue approach, is that a paragraph is the unit for hyphenation, not the keyboarded lines of input are taken as lines for the output. TEX neglects one eol-symbol in a row, treats it as a space. In a revision of TEX, was it 1989?, the \language command was introduced to facilitate for various, language specichyphenationstyles. TEX arose from Knuth’s dream to typeset mathematics beautifully. I presume Knuth was very much surprised by the complexity of typesetting ordinary language, automaticallyandfoolproof. Typesetting novels by TEX is a trie. However, book production is culture biased, with variations in layout
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