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Sponsors TUG 2008 —TEX’s 30th birthday July 20–24, 2008 University College Cork, Ireland TEX Users Group DANTE e.V. Human Factors Research Group, UCC Carleton Production Centre Malcolm Clark River Valley Technologies Thanks to the sponsors, and to all the speakers, teachers, and participants, without whom there would be no conference. The session chairs and speakers deserve special recognition for adhering to a extra-tight schedule this year. Special thanks also to Kaveh Bazargan for the video recording, and Duane Bibby for the (as always) excellent drawing. Conference committee Anita Schwartz Peter Flynn Robin Laakso Karl Berry Participants Leila Akhmadeeva, Bashkir State Medical Univ., Russia Edd Barrett, TEX Live / OpenBSD Kaveh Bazargan, River Valley Technologies Nelson Beebe, University of Utah Barbara Beeton, American Mathematical Society Mihály Biczó, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Johannes Braams, LATEX Project Jennifer Claudio, St. Lawrence Academy David Crossland, Wimborne, UK Sue DeMeritt, Center for Communications Research Christine Detig, Net & Publication Consultance GmbH Michael Doob, University of Manitoba Hossam Fahmy, Cairo University, Egypt Jonathan Fine, The Open University, UK Peter Flynn, University College Cork, Ireland Ralf Gaertner, München, Germany Michel Goossens, CERN Steve Grathwohl, Duke University Press Adelheid Grob, Universität Ulm Hans Hagen, Pragma ADE Hartmut Henkel, von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Morten Høgholm, LATEX Project Taco Hoekwater, Elvenkind BV Klaus Höppner, DANTE e.V. Jean-Michel Hufflen, Université de Franche-Comté Jelle Huisman, SIL International Manjusha Joshi, Bhaskaracharya Institute in Mathematics, India Jonathan Kew, Thame, UK Timothy Kew, Thame, UK Peter Knaggs, Bournemouth, UK Thomas Koch, Köln, Germany Harald König, Balingen, Germany Reinhard Kotucha, Hannover, Germany Valentinas Kriauciukas, VTEX Martha Kummerer, University of Notre Dame Johannes Küster, typoma GmbH Robin Laakso, TEX Users Group Jérôme Laurens, Université de Bourgogne Dag Langmyhr, University of Oslo Olga Lapko, Moscow, Russia Blanca Mancilla, University of New South Wales Niall Mansfield, UIT Cambridge Ltd, UK Patricia Masinyana, UNISA, South Africa Joe McCool, Southern Regional College, UK Stephen McCullagh, Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies Frank Mittelbach, LATEX Project Ross Moore, Macquarie University, Australia Winfried Neugebauer, Bremen, Germany Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard, TEX Live Steve Peter, Pragmatic Programmers Karel Píˇska, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic John Plaice, University of New South Wales Krisztián Pócza, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Cheryl Ponchin, Institute for Defense Analyses Toby Rahilly, University of New South Wales Arthur Reutenauer, GUTenberg Daniel Rhatigan, The University of Reading David Roderick, Carlisle, UK Chris Rowley, LATEX Project Stanislav ˇ Sarman, Clausthal Univ. of Tech., Germany Volker RW Schaa, DANTE e.V. Joachim Schrod, Net & Publication Consultance GmbH Torsten Schuetze, Möglingen, Germany Herbert Schulz, Naperville, Illinois Anita Schwartz, University of Delaware Heidi Sestrich, Carnegie Mellon University Martin Sievers, Trier, Germany Linas Stonys, VTEX Sigitas Tolusis, VTEX Eva van Deventer, UNISA, South Africa Marc van Dongen, University College Cork, Ireland Boris Veytsman, George Mason University GS Vidhya, River Valley Technologies Ulrik Vieth, Stuttgart, Germany Alan Wetmore, US Army Research Laboratory
TUG 2008—program Monday, July 21 9:00 Peter Flynn, opening 9:15 Frank Mittelbach, Windows of opportunity: A (biased) personal history of two decades of L ATEX development — are there lessons to be learned? 10:00 Steve Peter, A pragmatic toolchain: TEX and friends and friends of friends 10:30 break 10:45 Niall Mansfield, How to develop your own document class—our experience 11:15 Joe McCool, A newbie’s experiences with Lilypond, Lilypond-book, L ATEX, and Perl 11:45 Jonathan Fine, Why we need L ATEX3 12:30 lunch 2:15 Krisztián Pócza, Mihály Biczó & Zoltán Porkoláb, docx2tex: Word 2007 to TEX 2:45 Jonathan Kew, TEXworks: Lowering the barrier to entry 3:15 break 3:30 Manjusha Joshi, Data mining: Role of TEX files? 4:00 Taco Hoekwater, LuaTEX: What has been done, what will be done 4:30 Hans Hagen, LuaTEX: The TEX-Lua mix reception Tuesday, July 22 9:00 Mojca Miklavec & Arthur Reutenauer, Putting the Cork back in the bottle: Improving Unicode support in TEX extensions 9:30 Joachim Schrod, xindy revisited—multilingual index creation for the UTF-8 age 10:00 Ulrik Vieth, Do we need a Cork math font encoding? 10:30 break 10:45 Daniel Rhatigan, Three typefaces for mathematics 11:15 Johannes Küster, Minion Math: The design of a new math font family 11:45 Karel Píˇska, Creating cuneiform fonts with MetaType1 and FontForge 12:15 lunch 1:30 Ameer Sherif & Hossam Fahmy, Meta-designing parameterized Arabic fonts for AlQalam 2:00 Stanislav ˇ Sarman, Writing Gregg Shorthand with L ATEX and Metafont 2:30 Dave Crossland, Why didn’t Metafont catch on? 3:00 break 3:15 John Plaice, Blanca Mancilla & Toby Rahilly, Multidimensional text 3:45 Blanca Mancilla, John Plaice & Toby Rahilly, Multiple simultaneous galleys: A simpler model for electronic documents 4:15 Toby Rahilly, John Plaice & Blanca Mancilla, Parallel typesetting Wednesday, July 23 9:15 Manjusha Joshi, Smart ways of drawing PSTricks figures 9:45 Boris Veytsman & Leila Akhmadeeva, Medical pedigrees with TEX and PSTricks: New advances and challenges 10:30 break 10:45 Jonathan Fine, MathTran and TEX as a web service 11:15 Ross Moore, Advanced features for publishing mathematics, in PDF and on the Web 11:45 Morten Høgholm, The galley module, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Whatsit 12:15 Jérôme Laurens, Direct and reverse synchronization with SyncTEX 12:45 lunch Afternoon excursions, coaches expected to leave around 2pm. 7pm banquet Thursday, July 24 9:00 Taco Hoekwater, MPlib: The project, the library and the future 9:30 Hartmut Henkel, Image handling in LuaTEX 9:30 Hans Hagen, MPlib: An example of integration 10:30 break 10:45 Hans Hagen, surprise LuaTEX talk 11:15 Jean-Michel Hufflen, Languages for bibliography styles 11:45 Boris Veytsman, Observations of a TEXnician for hire 12:15 Anita Schwartz, closing 12:30 lunch
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References [1] James C. Alexander:
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Vistas for TEX: liberate the typogr
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see that there are slight differenc
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Definition of encoding (Unicode) Pl
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epresentation with proper path dire
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4.3 OpenType math in new TEX engine
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[2] Nelson Beebe: Character set enc
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abridged form, it looks like this:
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