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E8 MAPS 39 Kees van der Laan andtheusedfonts.IsTEXtheonlytoolavailableforthis task? Denitely not. Novels are produced by word processors, withexcellentspellingcheckers,Ipresume.Ihaveheard of Adobe’s Indesign, no hands-on experience as yet, however. MS Word I use quite often for contributions to our local gardening bulletin. These gardeners have not evenheard ofAnyTEX. It amazes me that we have no BabelTEX as yet, where the commands and error messages can be instantiated for your language. For example in Russian you would then end with \poka instead of \bye, and just keyboard Cyrillics. It also surprises me that we don’t have 2 communicating windows open simultaneously: one for the editor and the another for the typeset result, as next best to WYSIWYG.Bluesky’sTEXenjoyedontheycompilation, called ashmode. But ... TEXworks has also the edit and the pdf window open andlinked,asIlearnedattheconference.Whenanerror occursoneisdirectlyledtothelinewiththeerrorinthe source le in the edit window. LUGs The most astonishing aspect of TEX being around is that there have arisen so many Language-biased TEX user groups. This demonstrates a relationship between TEXandlanguages.ItismisleadingtothinkthatTEXhas onlytodowithtypesettingMath.LUGshaveproventhat a subset of TEX can be used extremely well to typeset ordinary text. Malevich Suprematism: Whitecross ona Whitebackground Emulation→ Maybe this fact should be brought to the attention of a casual user, and should not be burdened by all the other complex tasks TEX can do, which might frighten an innocentuser. I have included a picture, and its emulation, of Malevich 4 because he is the father of suprematism, which deletes the superuous, which I associate with Minimal Markup. NTG was founded twenty years ago PCs were emerging. We could access the computer centre from home by telephone through 1024baud modems. NTG started a leserver andthe digest TeX-nl. UNIXwastaking o. No networks nor WWW were in sight. The mainframesormidi’swereaccessedviaterminals.Ithinkthat the meetings twice a year and the Minutes and ApPendiceS, MAPS, appearing in time, had a great impact on NTG. I contacted budding LUGs in Germany, France, England and Scandinavia, and looked for cooperation. We cooperated in organizing EuroTEXs. In my time as president, NTG funded the L ATEX2ǫ project. Much later NTG tookpart infunding the LatinandGyre font projects. Jargon Mathematics from the language point of view is a jargon, with its own symbols, structures, meanings and denitions. In typesetting Math TEX is superb, still unmatched? 5 But... Microsoft, with its Cambria project and the use of OpenType Math fonts, may have takenthe lead. Other jargons can be typeset equally well, but you havetowritetheequivalentoftheintelligentmathmode yourself. Ihave not heard ofsuch aneort. 6 Jargon books are more complicated than novels, especially with respect to tradition in typesetting the jargon,suchas:contents,backmatter(anindex,tablesof contents,pictures,tables, . . .,references)andcross-links. FortypesettingMathonemustbeamathematician,have enjoyed a Math education, in short one must know the jargon. But... That is not enough, at least with the mathematical training I enjoyed. No typesetting conventions of math wasevertaughttome.NoMathematical writing, 1989 by Knuth as main author (who else?) existed. Happily, TEX embodies it all: the subtle spacing around Math symbols, the awareness of operators and how to typeset them in context, the composition of symbols with limits for example, is all taken care of by TEX, though TEX is not perfect. In-line Math and displayed Math may look dierent. The choices made by TEX, implemented in the Math mode, are wired in, but... parameterized. Mathconstructscanbemarkedupbyusingmacros.The Math fonts are not just ordinary fonts, they come along withasuiteof\fontdimparametersforplacementofthe glyphs in context by the intelligent Math mode. Using
TEX Education EUROTEX 2009 E9 justanother,commercial,Mathfontwiththerichnessof the TEX math mode knowledge is not trivial. OpenType Math fonts come also with a suite of parameters, some the same as in TEX some dierent, and some beyond TEX’s. Work on incorporating OpenType Math fonts for useinTEX,isunderwaybyBogusłavJackovskietal.,and aboutto be released. The above observations delineate the AnyTEX&Co userswhomakefulluseofthepowerofTEX⇔MetaPost: those who want to typeset Math (and to a lesser extent other jargons) beautifully, and . . . be in complete control.PhysicsjargonhasalotincommonwithMath,and IthinkthePhysicstypesettingtraditionishighlysimilar. Awareness To be aware of what is available in order to choose the right tool for the task at hand is all important and costseective. 7 To create awareness is a main objective of education, next to acquiring TEXnique proper and learning how to cope with change and the unknown. Awareness of competing and assisting tools is mandatory. As a WYSIWYG competing tool we have MS Word, with the Cambria module for Math, which uses the OpenType Math fonts. I glanced into the Math possibilities of Word 2007, and I’m impressed by what MS hasachieved,especiallywithrespecttouserfriendliness. Below, Ihave included asnapshot. No confusing details, no markup tags which one must remember,justtemplatestobelledin,ormodied.The dotted squares in the template formulas can be lled in withthe neededsymbols inaWYSIWYGway.Easy, isn’t it? It is hard to convince users that TEX is better, I guess. The Binonium of Newton, with its ‘n over k’ and ‘limits with the summation symbol’, looks correctly typeset to me. IsTEX moreexible? Rhetoricalquestion. But... MS(Math)lookseasier.TEX&Comustwatchout,thelaw ofdiminishingreturnsseems to apply. However, in TEXnicCenter I found similar but less advanced templates. if you click on an icon the LaTEX code, will be inserted in your script, which saves you typing, and which relieves you from remembering the commands. You still have to look at the inserted tags for where to ll in. In MS the ll-in place is marked by empty dotted squares. For example, for the ... −→ icon TEXnicCenterinsertsthe LaTEX control sequences \stackrel{}{\rightarrow} Do we have IDEs with really advanced editors with AnyTEX support, which not only prompt markup tags, but alsoprompt formula templatesto be lled in? With respect to WYSIWYG, we compromise by providing two communicating windows open: the editor window with the source le and the typeset window withthe pdfresult. At the conference attention was paid to provide supportforOpenType (Math) fonts foruseinTEX. Lackofawareness showsupwhenhowtodotypesetting tasks are published over and over again, without taking notice of, or mentioning, earlier work nor giving proper credits. Is the TEXworld anarchistic? In the last issue of MAPS, spring 2009, I read about how to typeset an addition table, whichis similar to Pittman’s approach of longagooftypesettingbyTEXamultiplicationtable.The author did not mention earlier work if not by me, while the title alluded to the past. It is true that it was typeset inConTEXt,andthatisnew,Iguess.Superuousinview of my plea to provide macros for creation of the table data in plain TEX to be used in AnyTEX, though in this examplecase the dataare atrie. Ignoringthe pastisnot ascientictradition.
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