Conference schedule
This schedule might still be changed, though not significantly.
Please note:
- GUST's Annual General Meeting (Friday, April 29th, at 20:00);
- the meals, refreshment breaks and bonfire times might slightly change…
April 29th, Friday – highlights:
- e-books, our future
- Łukasz Dziedzic: a font was born
- Hans Hagen: ConTeXt et al
- A bit o practice: a replacement for the Knuth-Plass algorithm, LaTeX, TeX and music, a bit of manual skills
- TeX and TV – flexing industrial muscle
- GUST's AGM folowed by the traditional bonfire
08:00 | Breakfast | |
09:00 | Conference opening | |
09:15 | Piotr Bolek | From a book to an e-book — why I don't like DTP |
10:15 | Jean-Michel Hufflen | Some experience with MusiXTeX |
10:45 | Coffee break | |
11:15 | Arthur Reutenauer | TeX in the TV industry |
11:45 | Willi Egger | A Personal Organizer: PocketDiary |
12:15 | Taco Hoekwater | MetaPost 2.0 Developments |
12:45 | Marcin Borkowski | Reusing content in LaTeX |
13:30 | Lunch | |
15:00 | Jacek Czekaj | Grid typesetting with inserts omission |
15:45 | Hans Hagen | Finding the balance |
16:15 | Coffee break | |
16:45 | Hans Hagen | MetaPost support, the next stage |
17:15 | Hans Hagen | How we deal with math fonts |
17:45 | Łukasz Dziedzic | From an idea to pixels: how Lato, a multi-variant font, was produced |
19:00 | Dinner | |
20:00 | GUST Annual General Meeting | |
21:00 | Bonfire |
April 30th, Saturday – highlights:
- Mostly fonts: Math OTF's, a new incarnation of Lucida, a radical approach to the radical sign
- TeX flexing its industrial muscle again and other strengths of TeX
- Special appearence of Florelien Hagen and Martha Otten
- TeX Pearls and oddities
00:00 | Bonfire (continued) | |
08:00 | Breakfast | |
09:00 | Hans Hagen | Tagged PDF or E-books: Old wine in new bottles |
09:30 | Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk | How to make more than one OTF math font? |
10:30 | Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk | MS Word and math fonts: a short show |
11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:30 | Mojca Miklavec, Ulrik Vieth | Another incarnation of Lucida: New OpenType & OpenType math fonts |
12:30 | Ulrik Vieth | The state of OpenType math typesetting |
13:15 | Siep Kroonenberg | TeX Live: recent developments |
13:30 | Lunch | |
15:00 | Marek Ryćko | A Radical Approach to the Radical Sign |
15:45 | Paweł Jackowski | TeX: beauties and oddities, part 1 |
16:15 | Coffee break | |
16:45 | Bogusław Jackowski | TeX: beauties and oddities, part 2 |
17:30 | Frans Goddijn, Florelien Hagen, Martha Otten | Does the quality of typesetting of schoolbooks influence the way we learn? |
18:30 | Grzegorz Murzynowski | PARCAT — applying TeX in industry |
20:00 | Conference dinner |
May 1st, Sunday – highlights:
- Andrzej Tomaszewski
- MFLua: a new development
- A bit o practice: tikz workshop; algebra and ConTeXt
- A new application of the Liang's algorithm
08:00 | Breakfast | |
09:00 | Martin Schröder | PDF tools |
09:30 | Jean-Michel Hufflen | A Comparative Study of Schema Languages for XML Documents |
10:00 | Andrzej Tomaszewski | Proportional most often means — beautiful |
11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:30 | Andrzej Tomaszewski | Presentation of a book for practitioners |
12:00 | Jean-Michel Hufflen | From bibliography files to Open Archives: the sequel |
12:45 | Krzysztof Pszczoła | Teaching LaTeX to students of mathematics — the experience from the Jan Kochanowski University |
13:00 | Luigi Scarso | MFLua |
13:15 | Ulrik Vieth, Arthur Reutenauer | Advertising: TUG 2011, ConTeXt 2011, ConteXt 2012 |
13:30 | Lunch | |
15:30 | Przemysław Scherwentke, Krzysztof Caputa, Agnieszka Kendzia | A nonstandard application of the Liang's algorithm: automatic insertion of stress marks in Polish texts |
16:15 | Coffee break | |
16:45 | Grzegorz Murzynowski | A BoF session: A MOTION FOR a different BOOK ABOUT LaTeX |
17:00 | Marcin Borkowski | A workshop: the tikz package for beginners |
19:00 | Dinner |
May 2nd, Monday – EXCURSION day:
Excursion day
We'll start early, just after breakfast, at 8:30 a.m. for a visit to Ciechocinek and a stroll around the famous salt graduation towers (the biggest in Europe).
Around noon we'll start towards Toruń, aiming to arrive at 14:00 at Grębocin, for a visit to the local Museum of Literature and Printing. There we will partake in the ceremony of the unveiling of Zygfryd Gardzielewski's bas-relief. This will be followed by a visit/guided tour to the museum and a late lunch. We should be back to Bachotek for dinner at about 19:00.
07:30 | Breakfast | |
08:30 | Leaving for the excursion (promptly!) | |
14:00 | Unveiling of Zygfryd Gardzielewski's bas-relief; visit to the musem; late lunch | |
19:00 | Dinner at Bachotek |
May 3rd, Tuesday – highlights:
That's, unfortunately, the last day of the EuroBachotek meeting in 2011.
- A new TeX user discovers its strenghts
- TeX in the 21st century – a guided tour by Martin Schröder
- A bit of practice: Unicode and math
Farewell, and let's meet in 2012, during the next BachoTeX conference!
08:00 | Breakfast | |
09:00 | Adam Twardoch | Automated high-end typography using XeTeX: an experience report from a first-time TeX user |
09:45 | Martin Schröder | TeX in the 21th century. Where we are, how we got there and where we are going. |
10:45 | Coffee break | |
11:15 | Luigi Scarso | Extending ConTeXt MkIV with PARI/GP |
11:45 | Piotr Strzelczyk | (uni)coding of math |
13:00 | Conference closing | |
13:30 | Lunch |
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