Conference Program for the 1994 Tex Users Group Conference in (fwd)

[Petr Sojka]

Below is the preliminary outline program of  TUG94, this year's
annual TeX Users Group Conference, taking place in Santa-Barbara
(California, USA) from Sunday July 31st to Thursday August 4th.

If you are interested and want to find out how to register for
this Conference, please send a message to tug at tug.org.

The TUG Conference Organizers look forward to meeting you there!

                 TUG'94 preliminary outline program
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                  Sebastian Rahtz and Malcolm Clark
                  =================================

Sunday July 31st [Publishing, languages, literature and fonts]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Charles Bigelow Lucida and TEX: lessons of logic and history
---------------

Yannis Haralambous Typesetting the holy Bible in Hebrew, with TEX.
------------------

Basil Malyshev Automatic conversion of Metafont fonts to Type1 PostScript
--------------

Alan Jeffrey PostScript font support in LaTEX2e
------------

Yannis Haralambous An Indic TEX preprocessor _ Sinhalese TEX
------------------

Michel Cohen Adaptive character generation and spatial expressiveness
------------

Monday August 1st [Colour and LaTEX]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Leslie Lamport Looking back at, and forward from, LaTEX
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Tom Rokicki Advanced `special' support in a dvi driver
-----------

Timothy van Zandt and Denis Girou  An introduction to PStricks
---------------------------------

Sebastian Rahtz and Michel Goossens  Simple colour design in TEX
-----------------------------------

Michael Sofka Color book production using TEX
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James Hafner The (Pre)History of Color in Rokicki's dvips
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Friedhelm Sowa Printing colour pictures
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Angus Duggan Colour separation and PostScript
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Jon Stenerson A LaTEX style file generator
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Johannes Braams Document classes and packages in LaTEX2e
---------------

Frank Mittelbach and Michel Goossens  Real life Book production: Lessons
------------------------------------  learned from "The LaTEX Companion"


Tuesday August 2nd [TEX Tools]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Oren Patashnik BibTEX 1.0
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Minato Kawaguti and Norio Kitajima  Concurrent Use of Interactive TEX
----------------------------------  Previewer with an Emacs-type Editor

Yannis Haralambous Humanist
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Pierre Mackay A typesetter's toolkit
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Jean-Luc Doumont Pascal pretty-printing: an example of "preprocessing
---------------- within TeX"

Michael P. Barnett and Kevin R. Perry  Symbolic Computation for
-------------------------------------  Electronic Publishing

Norm Walsh A World Wide Web interface to CTAN
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Wednesday August 3rd [Futures]
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Chris Rowley and Frank Mittelbach  The Floating World
---------------------------------

Joachim Schrod Towards Interactivity for TEX
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William Erik Baxter An Object-Oriented Programming System in TEX
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Arthur Ogawa Object-Oriented Programming, Descriptive Markup, and TEX
------------

Philip Taylor e-TeX & NTS: A progress report
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John Plaice Progress in the Omega project
-----------

Jonathan Fine Documents, Compuscripts, Programs and Macros
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George Greenwade TEX as a commodity
----------------

Thursday August 4th [Publishing and design]
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Maurice Laugier and Yannis Haralambous  TEX innovations by the Louis-Jean
--------------------------------------  Printing House

Michael Downes Design by template in a production macro package
--------------

Gabriel Valiente Feruglio Macro Packages for Typesetting Commutative
------------------------- Diagrams

Alan Hoenig Less is More: Restricting TEX's Scope Enables Complex Page
----------- Layouts

Don Hosek Sophisticated page layout with TEX
---------

Henry Baragar and Gail E. Harris  An Example of a Special Purpose Input
--------------------------------  Language to LaTEX

Marko Grobelnik, Dunja Mladenic, Darko Zupanic and Borut Znidar
---------------------------------------------------------------
           Integrated system for encyclopaedia typesetting based on TEX

Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice  First applications of Omega:
----------------------------------  Adobe Poetica, Arabic, Greek, Khmer


Furthermore, during the Conference the following workshops and discussion
sessions are planned (the convener's name is between parentheses)

  - The TUG WWW server (Peter Flynn)
  - Accessing CTAN (Norm Walsh)
  - Practical indexing (Nelson Beebe)
  - TEX and linguistics (Christina Thiele)
  - TEX and Humanities Journals (Christina Thiele)
  - Database publishing (Marko Grobelnik)
  - Floats (David Salomon)
  - Acrobat and related technology (Sebastian Rahtz)