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1. TUGboat 29 3 356 361 2008 http tug org TUGboat tb29 3 tb93mansfield pdf 4 Pakin Scott Good things come in little packages An introduction to writing ins and dtx files TUGboat 29 2 305 314 2008 http tug org TUGboat tb29 2 tb92pakin pdf 5 Veytsman Boris Observations of a T Xnician for hire TUGboat 29 3 484 2008 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb29 3 tb93abstracts pdf Boris Veytsman and Leila Akhmadeeva Medical pedigrees Typography and interface At the last TEX meetings we presented our work on medical pedigrees 1 2 In this talk we report our newest advances in this field First we improved the look of pedigrees based on the study of classical and modern illustrations in biological and medical papers Second we worked on the interface to the program and incorporated the comments and suggestions received from the users We discuss the new challenges and unsolved problems 1 Veytsman Boris and L Akhmadeeva Drawing medical pedigree trees with TX and PSTricks TUGboat 28 1 100 109 2007 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb28 1 tb88veytsman pedigree pdf 2 Veytsman Boris and L Akhmadeeva Med ical Pedigrees with T X and PSTricks New advances and challenges TUGboat 29 3 484 2008 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb29 3 tb93abstracts pdf David Walden Self publishing experiences and opinions Once a book is typeset for example with I2. Ross Moore Towards tagged PDF This talk will demonstrate recent work done by the author and Han Th Thanh to enrich pdfTgX with the primitives to allow the production of tagged PDF As this is still very much work in progress the talk will concentrate on presenting various aspects of tagging that allow the advantages of tagging to be easily appreciated These advantages include but are not limited to a substitution of Unicode characters for glyph combinations from fonts that use encodings other than Unicode via CMap resources and other techniques a alternative text to be read by screen readers extraction of text from PDFs in XML format a extraction of mathematical content in MathMLformat Each of these aspects will be illustrated by examples constructed using an enhanced version of pdfTEX Also I ll try to explain the extra complexity of internal PDF structures required for generating properly tagged structure and content If there is sufficient time this may be followed by a discussion of the requirements needed to adjust the LATEX format and packages to facilitate the automatic production of properly tagged PDF to become conformant with the ISO 32000 2 standard also known as PDF UA Universal Accessibility http pdf editme com PDFUA This standard includes MathML tagging of mathematical content I wish to acknowledge Neil Soiffer Design Science Inc http accessiblemath dessci com for motiva
3. AT X you have to get it printed and distributed If you have a traditional publisher it takes care of many of the remaining steps It also typically controls the product more or less in perpetuity There can be circumstances where it is better to handle the publishing yourself Over the past several years I have gained considerable experience with self publishing using both traditional printing and print on demand This presentation summarizes that experience and a number of the trade offs building on the sketch given in a companion presentation on the TUG Interviews Project As other conference participants are profes sionally involved in various aspects of publishing I will also solicit as part of the presentation au dience input on self publishing possibilities My final written presentation submitted to TUGboat will be augmented by what we learn during the presentation
4. Conference logistics a The conference location is DeBartolo Hall on the campus of the University of Notre Dame near South Bend Indiana Note that there is also a DeBartolo Center for Performing Arts in the same area of campus south side DeBartolo Hall is building 1144 on the campus map and is just west of the football stadium and just north of Mendoza College of Business It is east across the quad from McKenna Hall The conference sessions will take place in Room 126 DeBartolo and the workshops will be taught in 118 and 119 DeBartolo first floor Conference breaks will be outside Room 126 a Registration will take place in McKenna Hall the Center for Continuing Education in the main lobby McKenna Hall is on Notre Dame Avenue east across the driveway from the Morris Inn At registration participants will receive a meal card for the South Dining Hall instructions for Internet access directions for obtaining parking tokens if driving to campus and program booklets McKenna Hall Information Desk phone number is 574 631 6691 a Internet access The guest account you will receive is only valid to connect your personal computer and or handheld device to the nd_guest wireless network That guest account will not allow you to log into any lab computers It is also not valid for any classroom lectern or presentation computers it doesn t work on any hallway email kiosk stations you will not be able to print with it Guests at the Morris Inn w
5. a normal programming language implement ing algorithms in Lua is much easier than the usual macro jugglery required in traditional TeX LuaT X has been used in ConTRXt to simplify many internal macros But for most part the ease of writing a macro package in TeX does not interest a normal user How does LuaTFX affect a normal user In this talk I take some T X pro gramming examples from day to day usage and show how LuaT X simplifies them For instance writing loops without worrying about expansion parsing input without exploding your brain doing calculations without using an abacus Andrew Mertz and William Slough A TikZ tutorial Generating graphics in the spirit of TEX TikZ is a system which can be used to specify graphics of very high quality For example accurate placement of picture elements use of TX fonts ability to incorporate mathematical typesetting and the possibility of introducing macros can be viewed as positive factors of this system The syntax uses an amalgamation of ideas from METAFONT PSTricks and SVG requiring its users to program their desired graphics which can be either a curse or a blessing depending on one s outlook The latest revision to TikZ introduces many new features to an already feature packed system as evidenced by its 560 page user manual In this talk we will present a tutorial overview of this system suitable for both beginning and intermediate users of TikZ
6. atic linebreaking of displayed equations is underway We will discuss different areas of math typesetting some things breqn handles well some areas have room for improvement and some areas are simply not covered We will spend some time talking about the technical challenges posed by these requirements Morten H gholm Consolidation of expl3 The expl3 language used as the foundation of IATRX3 has gone through a consolidation phase where almost each and every concept has been questioned taken apart and put back Sometimes in the same form as it was and sometimes in radically different forms We will go through some of the most interesting changes and highlight the areas where special effort has been made to ensure simple and natural interfaces Klaus H ppner Introduction to MetaPost MetaPost is a program strongly related to Knuth s orginal METAFONT It uses nearly the same graphics language and syntax but instead of bitmap fonts it produces PostScript output So it can be used to create high quality graphics In MetaPost points and paths may be described by a set of linear equations that are solved by the program Thus MetaPost becomes unique among other tools like PSTricks or commercial applications e g CorelDraw Additionally the PostScript subset created by MetaPost can be interpreted by pdfTE X So MetaPost figure can be directly included with e g the standard graphics package while normal EPS images have to
7. be converted first to be usable with pdfIATEX The talk will present the basic features of MetaPost on a beginner s level introducing the definition of points creation of paths and their transformations and show some examples how MetaPost solves linear equations Aditya Mahajan ConTEXt math Integrating Unicode and OpenType LuaTFX provides the ability to process Unicode input and to work with OpenType fonts These features are used in ConT Xt to fundamentally alter the handling of math typesetting The user can type math using Unicode symbols and use OpenType math fonts In MkII the pdfTE X version of ConTRXt users could use Unicode math symbols The mapping of Unicode symbols to math glyphs was done using catcode trickery In MkIV the LuaT X version of ConTE Xt Unicode symbols are mapped to the corresponding location in a Unicode aware OpenType font To maintain the quality of math typesetting expected from TeX while making Con TE Xt Unicode and OpenType aware we must ensure that a math spacing is handled correctly extensible characters delimiters and operators are handled correctly traditional T X macros for various symbols are mapped to correct OpenType locations a virtual OpenType fonts can be created from traditional TeX fonts In this talk I will explain how ConTRXt MkIV handles these issues Aditya Mahajan LuaTpX A user s perspective With LuaTpX TeX has access to Lua Since Lua is
8. e popular and portable database systems The second provides a uniform and simple user interface for issuing search queries to any of the supported backend databases We finish with a discussion of the contributions of the two late computer scientists to whom this article is dedicated Karl Berry and David Walden TEX People The TUG interviews project and book We present the history and evolution of the TUG interviews project We discuss the interviewing process as well as our methods for creating web pages and printed output from the interviews using m4 as a preprocessor targeting either HTML or LTEX We don t claim great generality for what we have done Nonetheless some of our experience may be educational Jin Hwan Cho Extended DVI formats and DVIasm DVIasm is a T X utility program that is designed for editing DVI files with three steps disassembling editing and assembling The first stage of DVIasm 1 supported the standard DVI file format as in DVItype and DTL but in a much more flexible way than those utilities In the second stage 2 DVIasm made it possible to handle two byte characters CJK and Unicode characters The extended DVI formats generated by Omega Japanese pTFX were all supported as well as ordinary LATEX packages with subfont scheme such as CJK IAT X and Korean koT X The final stage of DVIasm confronts the two advanced TRX engines LuaT X and XHI X both of which can handle OpenType and T
9. ged MkIV This activity is related to the LuaT X project In the process I occasionally ask myself the question if such an effort makes sense In this talk I will discuss a few reasons why I consider it still worthwhile to invest time in T X in what direction we re heading how the expectations evolved and how ConT Xt can be deployed in coming years Idris Hamid Dynamic Arabic Towards the philosopher s stone of Arabic script typography We discuss the present status of the Oriental TRX project particularly the problem of Arabic script microtypography This includes glyph substitution and hz parameterization Idris Hamid Arabic typography Past present and TEX Accommodating the classical Arabic script to print typography has always been a challenge In this talk we go over some of the history of this effort including T X based solutions with a view to providing a backdrop to the Oriental TEX Project and its progress Jim Hefferon Gyre fonts for the easily confused The TeX Gyre fonts are modelled after a group of fonts that are in widespread use They bring to TeX users a number of very nice choices for making documents But they have not been as quick to catch on with end users as they deserve We ll cover some of the history and goals of the project and explain how easy this option is to incorporate in your work Morten H gholm Next steps for breqn The next version of the breqn package for autom
10. ill also have Internet access a Driving directions to the Morris Inn and campus parking from the intersection of 933 Michigan Street and Angela Boulevard Turn east on Angela Boulevard and go to the first traffic signal This is Notre Dame Avenue Turn left and look up If you see the Golden Dome you re there At the four way stop Morris Inn guests should proceed straight and the Inn will be on your left almost to the head of the avenue If you go too far you ll enter a roundabout and return to the Inn immediately on your right Parking is free to Morris Inn guests in the adjoining lot on the south side of the Inn Participants driving to campus should turn right at the four way stop Drive past the huge building on your right DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Note that there is a stop sign directly in front of DPAC Proceed to the next four way stop and your lot is just past the stop on the right This is a gated access lot which requires 2 to exit However parking will be free if you pick up a token at the McKenna Hall registration desk a An opening reception will take place Tuesday July 28 from 5 7 p m in the Irish Courtyard a large white tent near the Morris Inn Hors d oeuvres and nonalcoholic beverages will be served Please check in at the registration table pick up your name tag conference booklet and other items If you re not able to attend the reception you can register on Wednesday morning at 8 am at the McKenna Hal
11. l registration desk TUG members meeting After the regular session on Thursday we will hold a TUG user group meeting for anyone interested Several TUG board members will be present We will report on TUG s current status and future outlook We invite discussion of any TUG related business at this time ideas for outreach to additional communities additional initiatives to undertake existing projects to support or any other user group related topics Banquet amp soapbox The conference banquet will be held in the Donors Room of the Morris Inn at 7pm on Thursday July 30 We will have a few door prizes at the banquet as usual If you haven t signed up for the banquet it s not too late Just let us know email tug2009 tug org We will hold a 66 99 second soapbox at the banquet where anyone can speak for a minimum of 66 seconds and a maximum of 99 seconds on a T X related topic You can report a success gripe about a problem lament a failure share an insight ask a question or explain a solution No intros no questions no hacking on earlier speakers just you the mike and the audience and a moderator with a timer who will cut you off when your 99 seconds are up a No slides overheads whiteboards blackboards flipcharts chalk markers or other props Come prepared or make it up on the spur of the moment no experience necessary Tim Arnold Getting started with plas TEX We discuss
12. nd less dependent on specific systems PDF provides satisfactory functionality for the end product The missing link is a source format that complies to PDF complete with forms links and embedded JavaScript and that can be written both by software problem generators and in principle anyway humans An enhancement of TEX seems ideal Boris Veytsman Class writing for wizard apprentices There are a number of excellent articles explaining IATRX classes writing for beginners 1 2 3 4 Of course true wizards do not need any instructions This talk is intended for those TRXnicians who are no longer beginners but do not yet qualify to be wizards It discusses some tips and tricks of the trade packages you may want to use and packages you must be compatible with why the first two pages of a book take 60 of your time what is wrong with LATEX sectioning interface and why you better stick with it etc It is based on the experience of the author in writing IATEX classes for various customers 5 1 Flynn Peter Rolling your own Document Class Using L TRX to keep away From the Dark Side TUGboat 28 1 110 123 2007 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb28 1 tb88flynn pdf 2 Hefferon Jim Minutes in less than hours Using LATEX resources TUGboat 26 3 188 192 2005 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb26 3 tb84heff pdf 3 Mansfield Niall How to develop your own document class Our experience
13. plasTFX a software package for convert ing LATEX documents to other markup languages We will cover typical usage with examples of how to create HTML and DocBook XML from LATEX sources We finish with a demonstration of converting a simple LATEX source file and a brief overview of how to extend the package to handle custom commands and environments Kaveh Bazargan TEX as an ebook reader An important advantage of ebook readers is their ability to modify text size and page orientation for the most comfortable reading configuration The ebook reader has to reformat the text on the fly and with minimum delay Current ebook readers e g Stanza on the iPhone can do this reformatting but cannot deal with complicated text such as mathematics We have been experimenting with using TeX as the formatting engine Of course it can handle complex mathematics but it also creates the best line breaks of any ebook reader e g Stanza We will report our experiments with using TeX as an ebook reader on the iPhone Nelson Beebe BIBTEX meets relational databases After giving some background and comments on the B BTEX bibliographic database system we discuss the problem of searching large collections of such data We briefly describe how relational databases are structured and queried Portable new programs bibtosql and bibsql are introduced and their use is illustrated The first handles the conversion of BIBTEX data to input for three fre
14. rueType files in a direct way without TFM files In this talk we introduce DVIasm with a few interesting applications to the T X world and discuss how DVIasm handles the extended DVI formats generated by LuaT X and X4IFX 1 Jin Hwan Cho Hacking DVI files Birth of DVIasm The PracTpX Journal 2007 no 1 and TUGboat 28 2007 no 2 210 217 http tug org TUGboat Articles tb28 2 tb89cho pdf 2 Jin Hwan Cho Handling Two Byte Characters with DVIasm The Asian Journal of T X 2 2008 no 1 63 68 http ajt ktug kr assets 2008 5 1 0201cho pdf Hans Hagen The LuaTRX project Halfway to version 1 We re close to releasing version 0 50 of LuaT X What s old and stable what s new and exper imental and what is on the agenda but can get off In this talk I will give an overview of what has happened so far what is currently being done and where we expect to end up If time permits Pll also do a quick update on the MPlib project Hans Hagen Plain TeX and OpenType I will start this presentation with a quick overview of what OpenType brings us I will use a T X based previewing tool to show what such fonts provide I will also demonstrate how you can use OpenType fonts in plain LuaTpX using a few generic modules that ship with the ConTRXt distribution Hans Hagen Why I still use TeX Those familiar with ConTRXt will have noticed that we re in the middle of a rather drastic rewrite tag
15. tion and much helpful advice and testing concerning this aspect Bob Neveln and Bob Alps Writing and checking complete proofs in IAT RX ProofCheck is a system for writing and checking mathematical proofs Theorems and proofs are contained in a plain TeX or LATEX document Parsing and proof checking are accomplished through Python programs which read the source file A general explanation of the use and structure of the system and programs is provided and a sample proof is shown in detail The work done by the authors has been based on standard sentence logic a non standard predicate logic and set theory with proper classes Theorems and proofs based on other foundations may be checked if external data files are modified Four such data files and their possible modifications are described In addition the extent to which the formal language can be shaped to accommodate an author s preferences is discussed Frank Quinn EduTgpx A source format for self scoring tests Pll describe an NSF funded project to use TRX to produce self scoring and otherwise interactive PDF documents for educational use D P Story s AcroTEX Education Bundle already has a great deal of the necessary functionality and will serve as the starting point The objective is to produce customized doc uments including tests that are essentially independent of a testing system or other restricted environment This is needed to make content more portable a
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