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EuroTeX 2009 Proceedings

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Complete issue 30:3 as one pdf (11mb) 
Title page 
Editorial information 
 
EuroTeX 2009
EuroTeX 2009 
  Hans Hagen      [Reports and notices — report on the conference, with photos]
 1 
 
News
EuroTeX 2010 (Pisa, Italy) announcement   2 
4th ConTeXt meeting (Brejlov, Czech Republic) announcement   3 
TUG 2010 (San Francisco, USA) announcement   4 
 
TUG Business
Institutional members   4 
 
Dreamboat
TeX education—a neglected approach 
  Kees van der Laan      [Intermediate Plus — proposal for education with many graphics and macro examples]
 5 
 
Software & Tools
LuaTeX lunatic 
  Luigi Scarso      [Advanced — embedding Python in LuaTeX; examples with scientific graphics]
 34 
 
Graphics
Decorating CD-ROMs and DVDs 
  Willi Egger      [Intermediate — using ConTeXt to make CD-size labels, jewel case booklets and inlays]
 59 
 
Software & Tools
The language mix 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate — summary of future mixes of TeX MetaPost, Lua, XML, and tools]
 72 
 
Multilingual Document Processing
E16 & DEtool—typesetting language data using ConTeXt 
  Jelle Huisman      [Intermediate Plus — typesetting the Ethnologue, an encyclopedia of the world's languages]
 78 
 
Software & Tools
A network TeX Live installation at the University of Groningen 
  Siep Kroonenberg      [Intermediate — setting up a large networked TeX Live for Windows]
 86 
Using TeX's language within a course about functional programming 
  Jean-Michel Hufflen      [Advanced — using the TeX language to illustrate advanced programming ideas]
 92 
 
Teaching & Training
Introducing new French-speaking users to LaTeX quickly and convincingly 
  Anne-Marie Aebischer, Bruno Aebischer, Jean-Michel Hufflen, François Pétiard      [Introductory — introducing LaTeX to French students in mathematics]
 99 
 
Multilingual Document Processing
Oriental TeX by a dummy 
  Hans Hagen      [Intermediate Plus — summary of the Oriental TeX project]
 105 
 
Philology
Writing Pitman shorthand with Metafont and LaTeX 
  Stanislav Jan Šarman      [Advanced — an online system converting English text to Pitman 2000 shorthand]
 107 
 
PDF and TeX
Optimizing PDF output size of TeX documents 
  Péter Szabó      [Intermediate Plus — detailed analysis of size reduction strategies for PDF output]
 112 
Generating PDF for e-reader devices 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate — using ConTeXt for on-the-fly PDF generation for iRex e-readers]
 131 
 
Software & Tools
LuaTeX says goodbye to Pascal 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate Plus — rationale and examples in converting LuaTeX from Pascal web to C]
 136 
 
Publishing
The Typesetting of Statistics 
  Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate — using ConTeXt to produce the Dutch translation of a large statistics textbook]
 141 
 
Graphics
MetaPost 2 project goals 
  Hans Hagen, Taco Hoekwater      [Intermediate Plus — numerical precision and related MetaPost 2 goals]
 143 
 
Software & Tools
Using LaTeX as a computing language 
  John Trapp      [Advanced — calculations of dates, vector/scalar products, and more in LaTeX]
 145 
 
Typography
Experiences typesetting mathematical physics 
  Ulrik Vieth      [Intermediate Plus — dealing with physics notation and fine-tuning appearance of math formulas]
 166 
 
Abstracts
EuroTeX 2009 abstracts 
  Hans Hagen, Lucien Lemmens, Zofia Walczak, Jonathan Fine, Jonathan Kew, Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky, Martin Schröder, Taco Hoekwater, Jerzy Ludwichowski, Bogusław Jackowski, Karel Píška, Mojca Miklavec, Arthur Reutenauer 
 179 
 
EuroTeX 2009
Participant list   182 
 
Advertisements
TeX consulting and production services   183 

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