Activities schedule
Important program orientation points and headlines of conference days
The presentations have not yet been assigned to particular days; however, the list of presentations is already available.
Please note especially the following:
- The TeX Clinic will be active throughout the conference,
- there will be opportunities to present poster sessions,
- typography counsel - an opportunity to consult your designs with Andrzej Tomaszewski, Adam Twardoch and Tomasz Bierkowski (graphic designer, Academy of Fine Arts of Katowice)
- a special appearance by Stephen Hicks on misusing TeX to… (see the Sunday program)
- BoF sessions
- tutorials and workshops
About the poster sessions:
- take your small works (or excerpts/samples from bigger ones)
- post them on the available boards
- talk about them with those attracted
- Thursday is the day
About the BoF (Bird of a Feather) sessions:
- if you have an idea or a glimpse of it, i.e., a feather of a high fliyng birdie—
- you can post it on the announcement board
- meet with those who subscribe and
- work on the idea, i.e., get that birdie
- afterwords you might want to announce the outcome
About the typography counsel:
- bring books or other works with typographic elements (not only of your design)
- we will add them to that small collective exhibition
- our befirended typographers led by Andrzej Tomaszewski will analyze and comment on them, giving invaluable advice
- Saturday is the day
About the tutorials and workshops:
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a workshop on MetaPost for lazy beginners by Adam Kolany (it is advisable to get yourself a laptop with a wireless card and PuTTY installed plus, of course, a working TeX Live installation; Linux is preferred but Windows users should also be able to follow):
- basic graphic commands – operations draw, fill, drawarrow, drawdblarrow;
- path operators “ -- ” and “ .. ”; finding a point of lines intersection; pseudo-variable whatever;
- changing the shape and size of a pen; changing the color of stroking and filling;
- conditional change of a colour – conditions (command if … else: … fi); type color;
- dashed lines – modifier dashed; function dashpattern;
- application exercise: illustrating the angle bisector theorem.
- operations on paths – function reverse; transformations – reflections, rotations, affine transformations;
- type pair – functions xpart, ypart; variables x[] i y[];
- points and nodes of a curve – functions length p, point t of p;
- control nodes – operators precontrol t of p, postcontrol t of p;
- changing the direction of a curve at a node;
- application exercise: drawing a heart for collecting charity money.
- loops – drawing function diagrams;
- labelling characteristic points – function thelabel; procedure dotlabel; preprocessor tags btex … etex, verbatimtex … etex, etc.;
- type picture, variable currentpicture, constant nullpicture;
- definitions – commands def, vardef, begingroup … endgroup, save;
- application exercise: drawing regular polygons and various charts (line, bar, pie).
- intersection curves – functions p1 intersectionpoint p2, buildcycle(p1,…,pn), intersectiontimes;
- fragments of curves – functions cutbefore, cutafter, subpath;
- clipping with a contour – function clip pc to p;
- application exercise: using paths, color tables, etc. for representing graphs, grids and other graphic structures from Dorotka's examples.
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Norbert Preining's workshop on maintaining a TeX Live installation with TeX Live Manager, a new thing in TL2008; participants migh get more from the tutorial by commanding a laptop with a TL installation and and wireless card
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a LaTeX workshop with an ad hoc program by Grzegorz Murzynowski; Grzegorz is ready to take problems from the audience
Day 1, meeting 1, 2*45 mins:
Day 2, meeting 2, 2*45 mins:
Day 3, meeting 3, 2*45 mins:
Day 4, meeting 4 (if the tutorial begins on Wednesday), 2*45 mins:
Wednesday: What's new with and around TeX
10:00 AM Conference opening and presetations start
The the current state of TeX engines and TeX related software will be presented so as to introduce the afternoon-evening panel discussion. Highlighted here are the presentations by Hans Hagen and Taco Hoekwater on progress in LuaTeX and the mplib library.
- Afternoon-evening panel discussion:
- Subject:
- TeX: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (i.e., SWOT analysis)
- Leader:
- Andrzej Odyniec
Thursday: Working day
- workshops and tutorials (the tutorial list will be published soon)
- the TeX Clinic
- informal meetings
- the Typoghrapy Counsel
- BoF sessions
- poster sessions
8:00 PM The GUST Annual General Meeting
Friday: Font day
The program will sport — among others — the following speakers:
- Hans Hagen
- Bogusław Jackowski
- Janusz M. Nowacki
- Piotr Strzelczyk
- Ulrik Vieth
- Afternoon-evening panel discussion:
- Subject:
- TeX distributions
- Leader:
- Norbert Preining
Bonfire: bring your voices, musical instruments, good moods, and willingness. And do whatever possible to secure a good weather.
Saturday:
Typography day
The program will bring — among others — the presentations by:
- Małgorzata Dubowiak
- Andrzej Tomaszewski
- Adam Twardoch
- Afternoon-evening panel discussion:
- Subject:
- TeX: at a turning point, or at the crossroads?
- Leader:
- Marek Ryćko
Sunday: TeX companion programs day
This year's TeX Pearls presented by Taco Hoekwater with a special appearance by Stephen Hicks, receiver of the Judges' Prize at the Eleventh ICFP Programming Contest, on “misusing” TeX… to program a Mars rover, functional style.
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