EuroTeX'95

Tue May 30 18:29:38 CEST 1995

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 EuroTeX'95
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September 4-8
Arnhem, The Netherlands

Conference information
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The TeX Toolbox

The EuroTeX conference 1995, including tutorials, will take place from
September 4th until September 8th in the Netherlands. The conference
will be held at Papendal, near the city of Arnhem.

Papendal is located in one of the most beautiful areas of the
Netherlands. Right in the middle of the vast woods of the province of
Gelderland. About eight kilometers west of Arnhem. Tucked away under
the lee of the green Veluwe-fringe.

The conference starts on September 4th in the afternoon and runs until
September 7th noon. Thursday afternoon and Friday September 8th are
reserved for tutorials.

The theme of the conference is: The TeX Toolbox.
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Preliminary program
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(Items marked `*' are not confirmed yet)

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Monday a.m.

Welcome Reception and registration of conference attendants.

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Monday p.m. (14:00-18:30)

Theme: I) Fonts

VFComb -- a program for design of virtual fonts
   S. Turtia, A.Berdikov

The Conversion of the Euler Metafont sources to PostScript Type1
   E.J. Vens

EC and DC fonts
   J. Knappen

EC math fonts, fontinst
   A. Jeffrey*

Theme: II) Multiple languages

A package for Church Slavonic type-setting
   A.F. Slepuhin

A Russian style for Babel: problems and solutions
   O. Lapko, I. Makhovaya

ScholarTeX
   Y. Haralambous

Status of Babe
   J. Braams

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Tuesday a.m. (9:00-12:30)

Theme: Graphics and packages

Graphics in TeX: a new implementation
   A.V. Astrelin

TeX Plotter -- program for creating 2D and 3D pictures
   S. Turtia, A. Berdikov

Packages for typesetting Commutative Diagrams
   G. Feruglio

Package for typesetting chemical diagrams
   J. Hagen

MusixTeX, a package for typesetting music
   D. Taupin*

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Tuesday p.m.

>From 13:30-14:30: NTG meeting.

Theme: Electronic documents

Presentation of Acrobat
   W. Tierie

Producing electronic books? -- all you need is TeX!
   J. Hagen

SGML, a practical introduction
   M. Goossens

>From LaTeX to HTML, and back
   M. Goossens

Style sheets (DSSSL,... )
   J. Andre

SGML, Acrobat, LATEX, HyperTeX
   S. Rahtz*

Panel discussion.

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Wednesday a.m.

Theme: Tools I

DaTeX, TeX macros for storing and retrieving data
   R. Koning, S. Kliffen, A. Lenstra

TeX: an unsuitable language for document markup
   P. Taylor

Blue's Data Bases
   K. van der Laan

Occam's razor and macro management
   L. Siebenmann

Formating Pascal using TeX
   P. Palao, M. Nunez

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Wednesday p.m.

Theme: General developments in TEX and LATEX

LaTeX3
   C. Rowley*

eTEX
   P. Taylor

NTS
   P. Taylor

Omega
   Y. Haralambous

tds
   *

Panel discussion.

>From 16:00-???: the social event, still a secret...

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Thursday a.m.

Theme: Tools II

\csname undefined \endcsname = relax: feature or flaw
   P. Taylor

Atomic fonts and electronic archiving of scientific documents
   L. Siebenmann

Duplex: a LaTeX based Cooperative Editing Environment
   F. Pacull

The W96 Environment
   A. Strejc

Indexing with `Any'TeX
   K. van der Laan

Metafont as generator of EPS graphics
   B. Jackowski

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Thursday p.m. and Friday

Theme: Tutorials

Parallel sessions.

Sweet-TeX tutorial
   L. Siebenmann

Page layout in LaTeX
   P. van Oostrum

TeXing Paradigms
   K. van der Laan

BLU TeX
   K. van der Laan

Metafont/Metapost
   B. Jackowski

eTEX tutorial
   P. Taylor

Workshop on Acrobat and electronic document delivery
   M. Goossens & S. Rahtz

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Meeting costs

The resistration fee includes the Welcome Reception on Monday, all lunches
from Monday to Thursday, all dinners from Monday to Wednesday and one copy
of the proceedings. One tutorial (1/2 day) is included in the conference
fee.  Extra tutorials cost Hfl 70 each. Lunch on Friday is Hfl 15.

The conference fee also includes the `social event' on Wednesday
afternoon and evening.

Conference rates:
- members of TUG or Local TEX User Groups (please specify): Hfl 350
- others: Hfl 425

Reservations of hotel rooms at the conference site can only be done by
the EuroTeX organisation committee. Papendal offers the following
accomodation:

- single rooms Hfl 90 per day per person
- double rooms Hfl 75 per day per person
- quadruple rooms Hfl 50 per day per person
(breakfast included).

Accomodation is limited, so register as soon as possible.

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How to get there

Papendal is located just outside the city of Arnhem. From Arnhem it can
be reached by bus or taxi in approximately 15 minutes. There is a train
going from Amsterdam airport (Schiphol) to Arnhem every 30 minutes.

The address is:

Papendal Nationaal Sport Centrum
fax +31 8308 21853
tel +31 8308 37911
P.O. Box 484
6800 AL Arnhem
The Netherlands

People coming from Russia, Poland or ... may be interested in the
EuroTeX Bus Project. On September 2nd a TeX bus will drive from Brest,
through Warsaw, through ...  to Arnhem, where it will arrive on Sunday
in the afternoon. Taking the bus will be extremely cheap. However,
seats are limited so register as soon as possible.

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Bursary fund

There is a Bursary Fund available for those who require financial
support to attend the meeting. While we cannot guarantee all requests
will be fulfilled, we will do our best to support as many as we can.

We encourage all conference attendants to contribute a small amount of
money to the Bursary Fund along with their registration fee.

More information about contributing to or applying to the Bursary Fund
can be obtained from the Dutch TeX Users Group, by e-mail
ntg at nic.surfnet.nl, or by post: P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The
Netherlands.

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Further information

Updates of this information will be sent to all known electronic TeX
related mailing lists and to all Local TeX User Groups. If you have
access to a WWW browser you can go to
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/piet~/eurotex. There you can find the latest news,
a registration form and other useful information.
--
Piet van Oostrum <piet at cs.ruu.nl>
http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~piet