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TUG 2008

June 21–24, 2008 University College Cork, Ireland	Subscribe to Podcast: Video (iTunes) Video (Miro)
The 2008 annual conference of the TeX Users Group (TUG 2008) held at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. Themes include Interfaces, LaTeX, ConTeXt, METAFONT, METAPOST, and XeTeX. Please consider joining TUG or another TeX user group to support these conferences and efforts. Join TUG Join a local TeX user group

Table of Contents

Data mining: Role of TeX files?

MPlib: The project, the library and the future

MPlib: an example of integration

Putting the cork back on the bottle: Improving Unicode support in TeX extensions

xindy revisited — multilingual index creation for the UTF–8 age

Do we need a Cork math font encoding?

Three typefaces for mathematics

Minion Math — The Design of a New Math Font Family

Creating cuneiform fonts with METATYPE1 and FontForge

Meta designing parameterized Arabic fonts for AlQalam

Writing Gregg Shorthand with LATEX and Metafont

Why didn’t Metafont catch on?

Multidimensional Text

Multiple simultaneous galleys: A simpler model for electronic documents

Parallel Typesetting

Smart ways of drawing PSTricks

Medical pedigrees with TeX and PSTricks: New advances and challenges

MathTran and TeX as a web service

The galley Module or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Whatsit

Advanced features for publishing mathematics, in PDF and on the Web

Direct and reverse synchronization with SyncTeX

LuaTeX: what has been done, and what will be done

Image handling in LuaTeX

Where does TeX end, Lua start and vise–versa

Don’s Punk Anno 2008

Observations of a TeXnician for hire

Languages for bibliography styles

A newbie’s experiences with Lilypond, Lilypond–book, LaTeX, and Perl

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Three typefaces for mathematics

0 Comments Tags: Daniel Rhatigan, Mathematics, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Daniel Rhatigan
The University of Reading
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Image handling in LuaTeX

0 Comments Tags: Hartmut Henkel, LuaTeX, pdfTeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Hartmut Henkel
Schwetzingen, Germany
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Minion Math — The Design of a New Math Font Family

0 Comments Tags: Johannes Kuster, Minion Math, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Johannes Küster
typoma GmbH
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Where does TeX end, Lua start and vise–versa

0 Comments Tags: Hans Hagen, LuaTeX, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Hans Hagen

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Creating cuneiform fonts with METATYPE1 and FontForge

0 Comments Tags: FontForge, Karel Piska, METATYPE1, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Karel Píška
Prague, Czech Republic
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Don’s Punk Anno 2008

0 Comments Tags: Hans Hagen, Punk Anno, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Hans Hagen

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Meta designing parameterized Arabic fonts for AlQalam

0 Comments Tags: Ameer M. Sherif, Arabic fonts, Hossam A. H. Fahmy, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Ameer M. Sherif, Hossam A. H. Fahmy
Cairo University, Egypt
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Observations of a TeXnician for hire

0 Comments Tags: Boris Veytsman, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Boris Veytsman
George Mason University, Fairfax
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Windows of opportunity: A (biased) personal history of two decades of LaTeX development—Are there lessons to be learned?

0 Comments Tags: Frank Mittelbach, LaTeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Frank Mittelbach
LaTeX Project
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Writing Gregg Shorthand with LATEX and Metafont

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Stanislav Šarman
Clausthal University of Technology, Germany
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Languages for bibliography styles

0 Comments Tags: BibTeX, Jean–Michel Hufflen, LaTeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Jean–Michel Hufflen
University of Franche–Comté, France
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A pragmatic toolchain: TeX and friends and friends of friends

0 Comments Tags: Ruby, Steve Peter, TeX, TUG 2008, XML, XSLT.TUG 2008

Steve Peter
Pragmatic Programmers
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Why didn’t Metafont catch on?

0 Comments Tags: Dave Crossland, Metafont, TeX, TUG 2008, Typography.TUG 2008

Dave Crossland
University of Reading, UK
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How to develop your own document class — our experience

0 Comments Tags: Niall Mansfield, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Niall Mansfield
England
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Multidimensional Text

0 Comments Tags: John Plaice, TUG 2008, Unicode.TUG 2008

John Plaice
The University of New South Wales, Australia
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A newbie’s experiences with Lilypond, Lilypond–book, LaTeX, and Perl

2 Comments Tags: Joe McCool, LaTeX, Lilypond, Perl, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Joe McCool
http://benburb.demon.co.uk
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Multiple simultaneous galleys: A simpler model for electronic documents

0 Comments Tags: Blanca Mancilla, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Blanca Mancilla
The University of New South Wales, Australia
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docx2tex: Word 2007 to TeX

0 Comments Tags: docx2tex, Krisztian Pocza, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Krisztián Pócza
Budapest, Hungary
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Parallel Typesetting

0 Comments Tags: Toby Rahilly, TUG 2008, Typesetting.TUG 2008

Toby Rahilly
The University of New South Wales, Australia
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TeXworks: Lowering the barrier to entry

0 Comments Tags: Jonathan Kew, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Jonathan Kew
SIL International
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Smart ways of drawing PSTricks

0 Comments Tags: LaTeX, Manjusha S. Joshi, PSTricks, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Manjusha S. Joshi
Pune, India
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Data mining: Role of TeX files?

0 Comments Tags: Manjusha Joshi, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Manjusha Joshi
Pune, India
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Medical pedigrees with TeX and PSTricks: New advances and challenges

0 Comments Tags: Boris Veytsman, Leila Akhmadeeva, PSTricks, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Boris Veytsman, Leila Akhmadeeva*
* George Mason University, Fairfax, ** Russia
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MPlib: The project, the library and the future

0 Comments Tags: MPlib, Taco Hoekwater, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Taco Hoekwater

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MathTran and TeX as a web service

0 Comments Tags: Jonathan Fine, MathTran, TeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Jonathan Fine
LTS Strategic, The Open University
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MPlib: an example of integration

0 Comments Tags: Hans Hagen, MetaPost, MPlib, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Hans Hagen

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The galley Module or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Whatsit

0 Comments Tags: LaTeX, Morten Hogholm, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Morten Høgholm
LaTeX Project
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Putting the cork back on the bottle: Improving Unicode support in TeX extensions

0 Comments Tags: Arthur Reutenauer, LuaTeX, Mojca Miklavec, TUG 2008, Unicode, XeTeX.TUG 2008

Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer*
* University of Ljubljana, ** GUTenberg, France
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Advanced features for publishing mathematics, in PDF and on the Web

0 Comments Tags: Mathematics, Ross Moore, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Ross Moore
Sydney, Australia
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xindy revisited — multilingual index creation for the UTF–8 age

0 Comments Tags: Joachim Schrod, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Joachim Schrod
Kranichweg 1, Germany
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Direct and reverse synchronization with SyncTeX

0 Comments Tags: Jerome LAURENS, SyncTeX, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Jérôme LAURENS
Université de Bourgogne, France
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Do we need a Cork math font encoding?

0 Comments Tags: OpenType, TeX, TUG 2008, Ulrik Vieth.TUG 2008

Ulrik Vieth
Germany
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LuaTeX: what has been done, and what will be done

0 Comments Tags: LuaTeX, Taco Hoekwater, TUG 2008.TUG 2008

Taco Hoekwater

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