Following is the program for the conference and the list of participants to date. It will be updated as registrations are received.
Please register online for the conference. Hotel information is also available on the registration page. Feel free to email us if you have any questions or comments.
Schedule for LaTeX workshop days:
| 8-9am | registration (on Tuesday) |
| 9am-5pm | classes |
| 10:15-10:30am | break |
| 12pm-1pm | lunch |
| 3-3:15pm | break |
| 8-9am | registration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9am | Karl Berry | Opening & introductions | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9:20am | Barbara Beeton | keynote address: How to Create a TeX Journal: A Personal Journey
| 10:20am | break | 10:30am | Peter Flom
| LaTeX for social scientists and other people who think they don't need it
| 11:10am | Jim Hefferon
| LaTeX resources
| 11:50am | Boris Veytsman
| Design of presentations: Notes on principles and TeX implementation
| 12:30pm | lunch | 1:40pm | Alan Wetmore
| TeX and after dinner speaking
| 2:20pm | Steve Peter
| Fonts, typefaces, glyphs & sorts
| 3pm | break | 3:10pm | Klaus Höppner
| Creation of a PostScript Type 1 logo font with MetaType1
| 3:50pm | William Adams
| TypeSpec v2: typesetting font specimens
| 4:30pm | q&a |
5pm | birds-of-feather | |
| 9am | Ned Hummel | Common macro pitfalls and how to avoid them
| 9:40am | Jonathan Kew
| XeTeX: past, present, future
| 10:20am | break | 10:30am | Federico Garcia
| Capabilities of PDF interactivity
| 11:10am | Boris Veytsman, Maria Shmilevich
| Automatic report generation with web, TeX and SQL
| 11:50am | Kaveh Bazargan
| Removing vertical stretch - mimicking traditional typesetting with TeX
| 12:30pm | lunch | 1:40pm | David Walden
| A lifetime as an amateur compositor
| 2:20pm | Troy Henderson
| Using MetaPost for creating high-quality technical graphics
| 3pm | break | 3:10pm | Andrew Mertz, William Slough
| Graphics with PGF and TikZ
| 3:50 | Jon Breitenbucher
| LaTeX at a liberal arts college
| 4:30pm | q&a; TUG meeting |
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| 9am | Peter Flynn | Rolling your own document class
| 9:40am | Federico Garcia
| LaTeX and the different bibliography styles
| 10:20am | break | 10:30am | Boris Veytsman, Leila Akhmadeyeva
| Drawing medical pedigree trees with TeX and pstricks
| 11:10am | Elizabeth Dearborn
| TeX and medicine
| 11:50am | Bob Neveln, Bob Alps
| Writing and checking complete proofs in TeX
| 12:30pm | lunch | 1:40pm | Stephen Moye
| A wayward wayfarer's way to TeX
| 2:20pm | Steve Peter
| Introduction to memoir
| 3pm | break | 3:10pm | panel |
Barbara Beeton, Peter Flynn, Mirko Janc,
Jonathan Kew; moderator: Dave Walden | 4pm | closing | 7pm | banquet |
(in the Garden Room at the hotel) | |
We also plan to have birds-of-a-feather sessions at the end of the first day. These are informal gatherings devoted to a particular area. Topics so far (more suggestions are most welcome):
For the closing panel, we wanted to try to have a more open forum. So we invite you to submit questions for the panel in advance, either at the conference or email practex06@tug.org earlier. Any TeX-related topic is ok. The moderator will attempt to synthesize them and add more.
At the banquet, we thought we would try something new: an open session where anyone is encouraged to speak for a minimum of 66 seconds and a maximum of 99 seconds on a TeX-related topic. Your chance to have your say!