[UK-TUG] Meeting: 19 Jan 1995: Portable Documents: Acrobat, SGML & TeX;

[Jonathan Fine]

Hi

Here's a message from the past. It's an announcement for the first (and
best ever) meeting I've co-organised for UK TUG. In took place in 1995, and
as I recall 140 people attended, giving a surplus of several thousand
pounds.

I retrieved this announcement while preparing for the TeX Hour yesterday
celebrating Sebastian Rahtz. He persuaded his line manager at Elsevier,
Martin Keys, to be one of the speakers. I remain grateful to him for that.

I'm still interested in Portable Documents. At the PackagingCon next month
I'm talking about "Tools for packaging and using Portable TeX Documents".
https://packaging-con.org/talks.html#Tools%20for%20packaging%20and%20using%20Portable%20TeX%20Documents

Here's the announcement from the 1990s. You can see the original at:
https://groups.google.com/g/comp.text.tex/c/06HzBxu2LbQ/m/Ng93wSfQBccJ

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From: malcolm clark
Dec 9, 1994, 8:40:11 AM
Portable Documents: Acrobat, SGML & TeX

A joint meeting of the UK TeX Users Group & BCS Electronic Publishing
Specialist Group
10.00--5.00, Thursday January 19th, 1995
The Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane (off Fleet Street), London, UK

Preamble:
Ever since 1500, when Wynkyn de Worde moved Caxton's press from Westminster
to premises next to St Bride's Church., Fleet Street has been a centre for
publishing and printing in England. Although the national newspapers have
left for new premises, and the art of printing has spread
across the country, it is still a centre for publishing and journalism.

Computers, software, and electronic communication seem set to transform
the world of publishing, just as they changed typesetting. Donald Knuth's
freely available TeX system provides access to high quality typesetting for
almost all computer users. Using the Internet, millions of words can be
sent across the globe in seconds. SGML provides a recognised international
standard for the encoding of structured documents. The World Wide Web and
its browsers allow documents to be distributed and read without being
printed. Similarly,
Acrobat allows us to retain the typographic look and feel without
necessarily having the `correct' fonts.

Our speakers cover important aspects of the emerging technologies, and
will address the problems of making it all work together, from the points
of view of the authors, the publishers, the producers, and the readers.

Speakers include:

David Barron (Southampton): who has long been an advocate of the merits of
SGML for the storage and processing of structured documents;

David Brailsford (Nottingham): who heads an active research group in
electronic publishing and who will talk about Adobe's Acrobat, its
underlying Portable Document Format, and the use of LaTeX to create linked
documents;

Peter Flynn (University College, Cork): who is a practitioner of both TeX
and SGML, and will discuss the relationship of HTML, World Wide Web and
(La)TeX;

Geeti Grainger (John Wiley): who heads the electronic publishing team
at this publisher, long known for their involvement in various forms
of electronic publishing, and who have recently published EP-odd in Acrobat
form on CD-Rom;

A Speaker (Elsevier Science); a publisher with a deep and
extensive commitment to SGML;

Jonathan Fine: who will demonstrate software to allow TeX to typeset
directly from SGML (and HTML).

The meeting will conclude with a panel discussion.

Information: Carol Hewlett, or Malcolm Clark
[snip]

To Book:
Members of the UK TeX UG and the BCS EP group may register for 40 pounds,
if they do so before January 5th, 1995. Non-members pay an extra 10 pounds.

All those registering after January 5th incur a late booking fee of
5 pounds. Add a further 10 pounds to all categories if using a purchase
order. (In other words, early members pay 40, late, purchase ordering,
non-members pay 65: a bargain).

Location:
The Bridewell Theatre is a couple of minutes walk from Blackfriars
Rail (Thameslink) and Tube (District & Circle lines) stations. It is on the
west side of New Bridge Street. St Paul's is the `best' station on the
Central Line (a half mile walk).
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Happy TeXing

Jonathan
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