BachoTeX 2008

bachotex2008
April 30 – May 4, 2008
Bachotek, Poland
BachoTeX 2008 held at Bachotek, Poland. It is a three-day conference focuses on practical techniques for document production using LaTeX, TeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and friends.

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Table of Contents

  1. Making TeX support Unicode: The Quest of the Holy Grail
  2. What’s new in the pdfTeX world?
  3. TeXworks: lowering the barrier to entry
  4. High Noon in TeX town… A brief history of TeX, volume III
  5. The “TeX contra TeX” panel
  6. Revisiting Lexicographic Order Relations on Person Names
  7. State of the ‘bigfoot’ package
  8. A bibliography style: ‘pl64.bst’ (in Polish)
  9. The tuning of LaTeX to one’s purposes (in Polish)
  10. The Dragonia Magazine backstage (in Polish)
  11. Threefold on typesetting of E. Szarzyński’s letters: æstetic–, XeTeX– and a little hacker–wise (in Polish)
  12. Problematic elements of typograhic style influencing the æsthetic of the result
  13. Applied “footnoteology” — prolegomena (in Polish)
  14. What is the difference between pretty and ugly books? (in Polish)
  15. TeX: beauties and oddities
  16. Designing a book on history of books (in Polish)
  17. The art of spellchecking or rather a piece of a spellchecker
  18. Writing (La)TeX documents with AUCTeX in Emacs
  19. XSLT 2.0 vs XSLT 1.0
  20. Fonts in LaTeX documents — a tutorial (in Polish)
  21. Using OpenType fonts with XeTeX — a tutorial (in Polish)
  22. Introduction to the “TeX contra TeX” day
  23. What in TeX makes me burst (in Polish)
  24. What’s new in the XeTeX world?
  25. The luafication of TeX and ConTeXt
  26. LuaTeX for lions and ants
  27. Asian TeX-like typeset engines
  28. The MetaPost Library
  29. To TeX or not to TeX? (in Polish)
  30. Beauty and the beast – Design and implementation notes for ‘bigfoot’
  31. Tests of the TeX Gyre fonts (Spring 2008)
  32. TeX contra TeX: a modification of the logo
  33. From Logo to MetaPost
  34. Features of a robotic typesetter: best practices in defining and implementing OpenType Layout features for European fonts
  35. bayerancki — my first font (in Polish)
  36. Understanding the æsthetic of math typesetting
  37. Reshaping Euler: A collaboration with Hermann Zapf
  38. OTF format or name sorcery (in Polish)
  39. A new Installer for TeX Live
  40. New ‘minimal’ ConTeXt distribution
  41. OpenType: too open?

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Features of a robotic typesetter: best practices in defining and implementing OpenType Layout features for European fonts

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Adam Twardoch
Berlin, Germany
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Asian TeX-like typeset engines

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Jean-Michel Hufflen
Besançon, France
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Applied “footnoteology” — prolegomena (in Polish)

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Andrzej Tomaszewski
Warszawa, Poland
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bayerancki — my first font (in Polish)

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Marcin Woliński
Warszawa, Poland
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The MetaPost Library

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Hans Hagen
Hasselt, The Netherland
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What is the difference between pretty and ugly books? (in Polish)

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Adam Twardoch
Berlin, Germany
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Understanding the æsthetic of math typesetting

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Ulrik Vieth
Stuttgart, Germany
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To TeX or not to TeX? (in Polish)

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Marek Ryćko
Warszawa, Poland
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TeX: beauties and oddities

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Paweł Jackowski
Kraków, Poland
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Reshaping Euler: A collaboration with Hermann Zapf

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Hans Hagen*, Volker RW Schaa**
* Hasselt, The Netherlands, ** GSI, Darmstadt, Germany
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Beauty and the beast – Design and implementation notes for ‘bigfoot’

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David Kastrup
Bochum, Germany
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Designing a book on history of books (in Polish)

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Andrzej Tomaszewski
Warszawa, Poland
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OTF format or name sorcery (in Polish)

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Bogusław Jackowski
Gdańsk, Poland
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Making TeX support Unicode: The Quest of the Holy Grail

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Arthur Reutenauer
Paris, France
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A new Installer for TeX Live

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Reinhard Kotucha*, Siep Kroonenberg**, Norbert Preining†
* Barsinghausen, Germany, ** Groningen, The Netherlands, † Wien, Austria
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What’s new in the pdfTeX world?

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Martin Schröder
Bremen, Germany
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New ‘minimal’ ConTeXt distribution

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Mojca Miklavec
Slovenia
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TeXworks: lowering the barrier to entry

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Jonathan Kew
SIL International
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The art of spellchecking or rather a piece of a spellchecker

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Piotr Fuglewicz
Katowice, Poland
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High Noon in TeX town… A brief history of TeX, volume III

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Arthur Reutenauer
Paris, France
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XSLT 2.0 vs XSLT 1.0

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Jean-Michel Hufflen
Besançon, France
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The “TeX contra TeX” panel

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Hans Hagen, David Kastrup, Jonathan Kew, Marek Ryćko…
 
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Fonts in LaTeX documents — a tutorial (in Polish)

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Marcin Woliński
Warszawa, Poland
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Revisiting Lexicographic Order Relations on Person Names

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Jean-Michel Hufflen
Besançon, France
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Using OpenType fonts with XeTeX — a tutorial (in Polish)

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Andrzej Odyniec
Warszawa, Poland
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State of the ‘bigfoot’ package

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David Kastrup
Bochum, Germany
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Writing (La)TeX documents with AUCTeX in Emacs

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David Kastrup
Bochum, Germany
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Introduction to the “TeX contra TeX” day

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Paweł Jackowski*, Mojca Miklavec**, Arthur Reutenauer†
* Kraków, Poland, ** Slovenia, † Paris, France
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A bibliography style: ‘pl64.bst’ (in Polish)

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Grzegorz Murzynowski
Warszawa, Poland
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OpenType: too open?

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Hans Hagen
Pragma ADE, Hasselt, The Netherlands
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What in TeX makes me burst (in Polish)

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Michał Kolany
Katowice, Poland
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The tuning of LaTeX to one’s purposes (in Polish)

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Jacek Kmiecik
Kraków, Poland
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TeX contra TeX: a modification of the logo

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Arthur Reutenauer
Paris, France
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What’s new in the XeTeX world?

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Jonathan Kew
SIL International
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The Dragonia Magazine backstage (in Polish)

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Piotr Krakowiak*, Tomasz Łuczak**
* dragonia.pl, Poland, ** Gliwice, Poland
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Tests of the TeX Gyre fonts (Spring 2008)

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Karel Píška
Prague, Czech Republic
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The luafication of TeX and ConTeXt

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Hans Hagen*, Taco Hoekwater**
* Hasselt, The Netherlands, ** Elvenkind B.V., The Netherlands
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Threefold on typesetting of E. Szarzyński’s letters: æstetic–, XeTeX– and a little hacker–wise (in Polish)

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Grzegorz Murzynowski
Warszawa, Poland
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From Logo to MetaPost

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Mateusz Kmiecik
Kraków, Poland
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LuaTeX for lions and ants

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David Kastrup
Bochum, Germany
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Problematic elements of typograhic style influencing the æsthetic of the result

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Robert Oleś
Kraków, Polska
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