Call for Papers - Practical TeX 2005

This conference (like its predecessors Practical TeX 2004 and TeX NorthEast) is focused on practical use of LaTeX, ConTeXt, MetaPost, and the rest of the TeX system.

If you'd like to make a presentation at the conference, please submit a title and abstract via email (plain ASCII is fine, or any TeX format) to conferences@tug.org by March 15, 2005. Any TeX-related topic is welcome.

Preprints or slides received by May 15, 2005 (PDF preferred), will be included in the conference program. The final proceedings will be prepared as a TUGboat issue, after the conference. Presentations without formal papers are also entirely welcome at the conference.

LaTeX and all of the TeX family of programs are often seen as a difficult tool set requiring a fair amount of training, a notion we would like to dispel. So, we'd like to suggest the following guidelines for presentations:

• plan for an audience comprised mostly of users, rather than developers;
• emphasize typical usage, rather than esoteric features;
• show techniques with immediate applicability for users, rather than prospects still in development;
• give participants a path for learning further on their own, after the conference is over.

In any case, we welcome all proposals.