BachoTeX 2003

[Maria Jolanta Szelatynska]

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::              The 11th Polish TeX User Group GUST Conference          ::
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::                      May 1 - 3, 2003, Bachotek                       ::
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The 11th annual meeting of Polish Tex Users Group GUST will traditionally 
be held at the Bachotek lake resort. TeX users from around the world are 
cordially invited.

Polish and English are the official meeting languages.

The Web page of the meeting:

                  http://www.gust.org.pl/BachoTeX/2003en

Please note that one of the conference days will be devoted to LaTeX with 
special emphasis on most common typesetting problems, problem solving 
techniques, implementing own layouts with new font families, styles, 
classes etc. 
Details can be found on the Web page.

Planned lectures:

 - TeXLive on the net - the concept and usage by Janusz Bień
 - TypeScripts: the context way of combining fonts families by Hans Hagen
 - DocBook, a practical exploitation of the XML standard by Tomasz 
   Przechlewski
 - Matrix diagram construction using XY-pic by Romuald Słupski
 - MWcls in practice by Marcin Woliński

Participants presentations:

 - Typesetting tables with MetaPost - Piotr Bolek
 - TeX and inter-zone telephone connections - Piotr Bolek
 - How to make Jerzy love TeX again? - Hans Hagen 
 - Latin Modern, a rich extension of the Computer Modern 
   family with  accented characters using METATYPE1 - Bogusław Jackowski
 - METAPOST macros for dashing closed areas - Bogusław Jackowski 
 - The Future of European LUGs - Jerzy Ludwichowski
 - Installing outline fonts - Janusz Nowacki 
 - Polishing TeX - Jerzy Ludwichowski - Andrzej Odyniec
 - The history of a certain Web page or is LaTeX useable for WWW 
   services - Wojciech Myszka
 - Towards a better quality of pdf documents (configuring 
   pdfTeX/dvipdf/dvips+ghostscript to use vector fonts) - Grzegorz Sapijaszko
 - Managing software configurations with respect to TeX - Tomasz Serafiński

Also:
        discussions with friends (free)
        bonfires (free)
        swimming (free)
        canoeing (free)
        singing at nights (free and obligatory)
        beer and similar (at own expense)
        new initiatives (deer to the organisers) 
        
Paper submissions (with abstracts) and proposals for tutorials are still being 
accepted and should be sent by March 20, 2003 to the

Program Committee Chairman Andrzej Borzyszkowski 
(e-mail: BachoTeX at gust.org.pl). 

Remarks relating to the program of the meeting are also welcome.

The deadline for written submissions of contributions is April 6, 2003. 
Even if the submission is not a regular paper, we invite the prospective
authors to submit a written contribution to be included in the conference 
materials, just to immortalize their participation.
 
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   The conference fee______________________________100 EUR 
   Special fee for members of TeX users groups_____ 80 EUR
   Students fee____________________________________ 50 EUR
   Students - TUG/LUG/GUST members_________________ 40 EUR
 
   The fee includes registration and conference materials for regular 
   participants.
   
   Accomodation and full board (dinner, breakfast and lunch) is at 19 EUR
   per day.

The above prices apply to registration and payment done before March 31,
2003.  For payment after March 31st and before April 18th  please add 
10 EUR (students - 5 EUR) and for late payment (after  April 18) please 
add 20 EUR (students - 10 EUR), respectively.  
Please note that on-site payments can only be made in cash, in PLN 
(at the current rate).

The deadline for registration is April 18th, 2003.

The participants are expected on April 30th (Wednesday, afternoon)
but it is possible to extend the stay in Bachotek from April 29 (Tuesday,
afternoon) to May 4 (Sunday). 

For more information, please contact the GUST secretary, 

Jola Szelatynska 
Uczelniane Centrum Informatyczne UMK, 
Gagarina 7, 87-100 Torun, POLAND 
phone: +48 (56) 611-45-16
e-mail: secretary at gust.org.pl
 

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Please send the registration form before April 18, 2003 to the
organizers: 

 Jola Szelatynska, Uczelniane Centrum Informatyczne UMK,  
 Gagarina 7, 87-100 Torun, POLAND (email: secretary at gust.org.pl).
 
The payment should be made in EUR to: 

BIG Bank Gdanski,  Oddzial Millenium w Toruniu,
Polska  Grupa Uzytkownikow Systemu TeX GUST,
account number: 91 11602202 00000000 55304977, 
SWIFT CODE: BIGB PL PW

Sorry, no cheques, no credit cards.

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