Conference information

• Program
• Meeting costs
• How to get there
• Bursary fund

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:

Program

Monday a.m.

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

Theme: I) Fonts

• 13.30-14.00
  When METAFONT does it alone
  Jiri Zlatuska
• 14.00-14:30 VFComb -- a program for design of virtual fonts
  S. Turtia, A.Berdikov
• 14:30-15:00
  The Conversion of the Euler Metafont sources to PostScript Type1
  E.J. Vens
• 15:00-15:30
  The release 1.2 of the Cork encoded DC fonts and the text companion symbol fonts
  J. Knappen

Theme: II) Multiple languages

• 16:00-16:30
  A package for Church Slavonic type-setting
  A.F. Slepuhin
• 16:30-17:00
  A Russian style for Babel: problems and solutions
  O. Lapko, I. Makhovaya
• 17:00-17:30
  ScholarTeX
  Y. Haralambous
• 17:30-18:00
  Status of Babel
  J. Braams
• 19:00-21:00 Tutorial(s)
  Workshop on Acrobat and electronic document delivery
  M. Goossens & S. Rahtz

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

Theme: Graphics and packages

• 9:00-9:30
  Graphics in TeX: a new implementation
  A.V. Astrelin
• 9:30-10:00
  TeX Plotter -- program for creating 2D and 3D pictures
  S. Turtia, A. Berdikov
• 10:00-10:40
  Typesetting Commutative Diagrams
  G. Valiente Feruglio
• 10:40-11:10 BREAK
• 11:10-11:50
  PPCHTeX: typesetting chemical formulas in TeX
  J. Hagen
• 11:50-12:30
  MusiXTeX, even more beautiful than MusicTeX for typesetting music
  D. Taupin

Tuesday p.m.

Theme: Electronic documents

• 14:30-15:15
  Adobe Acrobat: Beyond the bounds of paper
  W. Tierie
• 15:15-16:00
  Producing electronic books? -- all you need is TeX!
  J. Hagen
• 16:00-16:20 BREAK
• 16:20-17:10
  A practical introduction to SGML
  M. Goossens
• 17:10-17:40
  From LaTeX to HTML, and back
  M. Goossens
• 17:40-18:30
  LaTeX, HTML and PDF, or the entry of TeX into the world of hypertext
  S. Rahtz and Y. Haralambous
• 18:30-19:00
  Panel discussion

Wednesday a.m.

Theme: Tools I

• 9:00-9:30
  Data with daTeX
  R. Koning, S. Kliffen, A. Lenstra
• 9:30-10:00
  TeX: an unsuitable language for document markup?
  P. Taylor
• 10:00-10:30
  Use of TeX as database with AnyTeX
  K. van der Laan
• 10:30-11:00 BREAK
• 11:00-11:30
  Occam's razor and macro management
  L. Siebenmann
• 11:30-12:00
  Formatting Pascal using TeX
  P. Palao, M. Nunez

Wednesday p.m.

Theme: General developments in TEX and LATEX

• 13:30-14:00
  LaTeX3
  C. Rowley*
• 14:00-14:30
  e-TeX: A 100%-compatible successor to TeX
  P. Taylor
• 14:30-15:00
  Omega
  Y. Haralambous
• 15:00-15:30
  The proposed TeX Directory Structure
  Joachim Schrod
• 15:30-16:00
  Panel discussion

Thursday a.m.

Theme: Tools II

• 9:00-9:30
  \csname u n d e f i n e d \endcsname = \relax: feature or flaw?
  P. Taylor
• 9:30-10:00
  Atomic fonts and electronic archiving of scientific documents
  L. Siebenmann
• The W95 Environment
  A. Strejc
• 10:30-11:00 BREAK
• 11:00-11:30
  Indexing with `Any'TeX
  K. van der Laan
• 11:30-12:00
  A Metafont-EPS interface
  B. Jackowski
• 12.00-12.30
  Upages -- plain tex for professionals
  Bc. Stanislav Brabec

Thursday p.m. and Friday

Theme: Tutorials

• 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
  B. Jackowski
• e-TeX tutorial
  P. Taylor*
• Hyphenation pattern generation by PATGEN
  P. Sojka

Meeting costs

The registration 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 Dfl 70 each. Lunch on Friday is Dfl 15. Additional proceedings Dfl 20 per copy.

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): Dfl 375
• others: Dfl 450

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

• single rooms Dfl 90 per day per person
• double rooms Dfl 75 per day per person
• quadruple rooms Dfl 50 per day per person (breakfast included).

Accomodation is limited, so register as soon as possible.

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. See the traveling directions.

The address is:

Papendal Nationaal Sport Centrum
Papendallaan 3
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.

Bursary fund

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@nic.surfnet.nl, or by post: P.O. Box 394, 1740 AJ Schagen, The Netherlands.