[texhax] BachoTeX 2018: call for papers, registrations

[Jerzy Ludwichowski]

Dear TeXies,

please find below the call for papers for BachoTeX 2018. To
register, please visit http://www.gust.org.pl/bachotex/2018-en.

See you at the conference!

-- Jerzy Ludwichowski
(for the Organizing Committee)

What’s to stay, what’s to go
============================

Many prints made in Gutenberg times look even now like new and
their readability leaves nothing to wish for. On the other hand,
getting the contents out of a computer diskette created 15 years
ago borders on a miracle.

Durability also applies to ideas. One may, for example, dispute if
the intellectual property rights do by restricting texts
multiplication protect ideas or to the contrary, counteract their
proliferation.

Algorithms, programs, file formats also go by. Files produced by
the so-called word-processors, even if carried over to a new
device, might be useless because the relevant program does not run
on the contemporary computer.

TeX proved to be exceptionally resistant against time passing. Is
there a way to increase this resistance with some vaccine? Or
perhaps there is no need for that. Some parts of the TeX world
unexpectedly received a second live, such as the math mode
algorithm which has recently been implemented in WWW browsers.
Thus, perhaps, valuables will naturally be carried over to new
developments?

The idea of using polynomial curves to describe computer fonts
turned out to be relatively stable. It already survived several
“packagings”: Type 1, TrueType, OpenType. But who knows, if within
the next 10 years a font will be a neural net being able to put
black dots in the proper places?…

We encourage authors to reflect on durability: to what extend we
may and need to care for durability of ideas and their forms of
expression.

Papers/presentations
++++++++++++++++++++

Of course we look forward to the normal mix of TeX, MetaPost,
ConTeXt, LaTeX, and friends related presentations. Please do not
forget about fonts!

We do upkeep the new BachoTeX trend in which we try to bring
together programmers and designers of typographic systems,
typographers and other users of such systems.

Please note the “Call for TeX Pearls” further down.

The normal channel of offering papers is the emailing of proposals
to the Program Committee, but before rushing off to the mailer,
please consult the info for authors.

Workshops and tutorials
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TBA

Poster sessions
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Participants will be given the opportunity to present their TeX
and typographic results in the form of posters for which we
provide exhibition space.

TeX Pearls
++++++++++

We continue the tradition of the “Pearls of TeX Programming”.
Metafont/MetaPost do also fall into that category. Details and
previously collected pearls can be found at
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/pearls/.


Deadlines and addresses
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The deadline for “regular” abstracts and other proposals is March
25th, 2018. The deadline for final papers to appear in the
conference materials is April 11th.

Contributions should be sent by email to the Program Committee:
prog-2018 at gust dot org dot pl. The PC is chaired by Bogusław
Jackowski (b underscore jackowski at gust dot org dot pl).