[Tugindia] TUGdelhi meet reminder

[Amitabh Trehaan]

Hi Venkat,
  I agree with your general idea but as you have yourself listed, there 
are so many things to talk about. My perception about the general 
participation in the meet is that there are not going to be many expert 
or even regular users in the meet, hence, we may have to cater 
accordingly. But of course, we are meeting to dicsuss technology.
 You have hinted upon the most important issues I believe in a short 
space. I think it is important to discuss existing TeX and the TeX-to-be 
like Indic TeX. Maybe our focus theme could be `TeX and Unicode'. Also, 
you could give two short sessions on a) a regular TeX topic like you 
suggested fancyheaders etc, and b) your experiments with Omega and the 
latest devnag (have you tried it?). We should also tell about 
sarovar.org. One issue that is very pertinent and needs to be discussed 
sometime is Fonts- their handling, conversion, development, standards, 
usage etc. I dont know how we can fit this in. Maybe, if you or somebody 
has done some experiment on this, that could be one of the demonstration 
session.
 I am going to send a mail with the schedule and proposed talks to the 
group. please give your suggestions on that.

Amitabh



S. venkataraman wrote:

>Hi,
>I thought that a self contained topic that doesn't 
> extend beyond one session would be better. What would be ideal? A 
> crash course in Latex or a session explaining the 
> philosophy behind latex.
>
> Should we discuss some of the problems that confront the 
> future of latex? I think the most central issue 
> is how to adapt to the change in environment where everyone 
> is opting for Unicode encoding.  As of now, as far as I know,
> latex doesn't support Unicode. Omega(Lambda) does, but the 
> amount of accesible documentation on omega is very little.  What about 
> the availability of fonts? If someone could talk about these things
> it will be nice. Is it possible to use opentype fonts in latex? As 
> I understand it, this is supposed to be a superset of both type1 and 
> truetype standards. What is their encoding? Unicode?
> As far as I know none of the driver programmes like 
> xdvi or dvips seem to suppose these new fonts. Omega has Odvips, but
>what 
> fonts does it support? Does it support opentype fonts? The issue
>Unicode encoding 
> is also intimately connected to latex(lambda?) documents in indic
>languages. 
> Switching over to Unicode will make it easier to produce documents in
>Indic 
> languages.
> 
> If somebody from the industry  who is addressing these issues can talk
>about these, it will be nice. Linux Lingam could be one person. 
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Amitabh Trehaan [mailto:amitabhtrehan at softhome.net] 
>>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:41 PM
>>To: TUGIndia Mailing List
>>Subject: [Tugindia] TUGdelhi meet reminder
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>> I need inputs and confirmations from members in and around Delhi 
>>willing to meet. 11th July, Sunday, 11AM(?), Sarai, Rajpur 
>>Road, Delhi 
>>(so that I can book the place). I am hopeful that a few 
>>people who are 
>>commercially using TeX in Delhi will also attend.
>>
>>Amitabh
>>
>>    
>>
>Time is OK.
>With best regards,
>S. Venkataraman
>Lecturer in Mathematics
>School of Sciences
>Indira Gandhi National University
>Maidan Garhi 
>New Delhi 110 068
>
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