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Ildikó Miklós Finalizing of the database A couple points about the converter: e.g., we use equation numbering only with the \tag command (not with \label). We do not use \textwidth and \textheight, because of the web interface. The workers load the database with L ATEX files. The database translates the L ATEX source with a fixed preamble and they can view the DVI results. Another person checks and corrects the L ATEX source. Over one year they were able to type and correct more than 15 years of the Journal. The CD: “Aim at the Nobel prize” This CD provides a unique opportunity to improve the knowledge of mathematics, physics and information technology of talented students, parents as well as teachers. The content is searchable according to multiple criteria, and one can even create his/her own worksheet using the selected problems or articles. There were several famous Hungarian mathematicians who read the Journal and solved the problems, e.g., Paul Erdős and László Lovász, both of whom won the Wolf Prize (in 1983 and 1999, respectively). The CD contains photos of them at a young age. We hope that having read the problem in English, one will be able to reconstruct its solution from the Hungarian text. Translating the whole KöMaL in English would probably be too big a task for us now, but we are considering it for the future. For the next few years, we are planning further developments in the KöMaL archives, based on its current database: see www.komal.hu/cd. Our goal is to fill the database with the more than one hundred years of material, and also to be available in English. References [1] KöMaL: Középiskolai Matematikai és Fizikai Lapok, http://komal.hu. 44 TUGboat, Volume 27 (2006), No. 1 — Proceedings of EuroTEX 2006
A pdfL ATEX-based automated journal production system THIERRY BOUCHE Cellule MathDoc UMS 5638 (Université Joseph Fourier & CNRS) 100, rue des Maths Domaine Universitaire 38402 St-Martin-d’Hères, France thierry dot bouche (at) ujf dash grenoble dot fr http://www.cedram.org/ Abstract We present the recent development of a production system for mathematical serials with both an electronic and paper version. The challenges were many: (i) no house style layout should be imposed, as the journals come from different publishing houses and may have very different typographical options; (ii) produce screen-optimised and printer-friendly output at once; (iii) avoid any duplication of information so that all aspects of the publications are always in sync (Web site metadata, table of contents. . . ), thus (iv) generate on the fly article’s page numbers, XML metadata at the published volume level from one master L ATEX source file tree. Using available technology (pdflatex, pdfpages.sty and \write18), the proposed solution to these problems appeared amazingly simple and easy to use. However, we’ll show that there is quite some room left for improvement. Introduction At the end of fall 2003, discussions began in the French mathematical community about a consolidated effort for high-quality online publishing of our academically (meaning: independent and learned society) published research journals. One driving force of this project was the achievements of the NUMDAM digitisation program, which has more or less settled standards for delivery and navigation of a significant part of the mathematical literature (http://www.numdam.org). Among the prominent features of NUMDAM, we have the rich set of metadata for each article, including tagged bibliographies, and the powerful search engine associated with it, written by Claude Goutorbe of Cellule MathDoc. Thanks to various matching tools provided by the AMS or developed internally, whatever sensible link can be provided is added to the Web interface, which is something our users very much appreciate. It appeared after some investigations that what was almost straightforward to achieve in a retrodigitisation process could become a nightmare to produce in a natively digital environment: 1. Although all journals under consideration were produced with some flavour of TEX, each had a specific format with a primarily paper-only approach to the publication process. 2. Although all of them had a Web site, none of them had reliable processes to control whether the metadata exposed on this site was consistent with the reality of the paper issues. 3. Although bibliographies are such a routine object in the learned publication business, we could count over 20 ways of “structuring” them in the TEX files. It turned out that, although we’re now in the 21 st century, the rather quaint copy-paste operation (a typical late 20 th century hobby) was the main procedure on which all these journals relied for the most typical aspect of serials publishing: exposing the same data in many formats and contexts. Let’s think for a moment about the starting page number of an article, which is a rather critical datum if you hope to find it somewhere. It will be printed within the article itself (where it is determined only at the last step of production, as it depends on the lengths of all the same volume’s articles before it), probably an inner table of contents, possibly a back cover table of contents, presumably a Web table of contents, not to mention TUGboat, Volume 27 (2006), No. 1 — Proceedings of EuroTEX 2006 45
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Page 5 and 6: The Hungarian TEX Rhapsody — Euro
Page 7 and 8: Nightly sessions When there was no
Page 9 and 10: The four champions at cracking the
Page 11 and 12: Not to mention the Bible itself, wh
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Page 15 and 16: The colourful side of TEX KATALIN F
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Page 19 and 20: Characters At present, TEX does not
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Page 31 and 32: Versions, concepts and problems The
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