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From: mojca.miklavec.lists na gmail.com (Mojca Miklavec)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:01:48 +0100
Subject: [TeX slo] ConteXt and Eurotex conference 2009
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L.S.,

The Dutch TeX Language User Group NTG and the ConTeXt task force are
pleased to invite you to the combined EuroTeX 2009 conference and
third international ConTeXt meeting:

    August 24--28, 2009
    Netherlands Defence College (NDC), The Hague
    The Netherlands

See the website for more information and future updates

    http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009


Call for Papers
===============

As usual, proposals for presentations and workshops are welcomed on
just about any topic of interest to \TeX\ users, but the conference
focus will be on

    Educational uses of TeX

such as manuals, courseware and college presentations, so we
especially welcome proposals on subjects in those fields.

    http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009/programme.html


Registration
============

The conference is made possible by the Netherlands Defence Academy
(NLDA) that graciously invited us to their facilities, including the
on-site hotel, thereby allowing a very competitive conference fee.

    http://www.ntg.nl/EuroTeX2009/register.html

Participants who complete registration before February 1, 2009 will
benefit from a special early bird discount.


Hope to see you there!

The organisation committee.
PS Please feel free to forward this message to suitable tex-related
lists, I do not know all of those -- Taco

From mojca.miklavec.lists na gmail.com  Sun Nov 30 18:00:32 2008
From: mojca.miklavec.lists na gmail.com (Mojca Miklavec)
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:00:32 +0100
Subject: [TeX slo] Tecaj LuaTeX-a v Brnu
Message-ID: <6faad9f00811300900p3912bc8x2d8e5f8ec61f92e@mail.gmail.com>

Zivijo,

ce bi slucajno se kdo sel v Brno na enotedenski tecaj LuaTeX-a (v
kolikor sem prav razumela, je zastonj), naj sporoci.

Mojca

----- Forwarded message from Petr Sojka <sojka> -----

> From: Petr Sojka <sojka>
> Subject: PV126: typographic programming course info
> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:30:12 +0100
> To: Petr Sojka <sojka na fi.muni.cz>
>
> Dear all,
>
> below is current version of detailed information about the course
> by Hans Hagen Typographic programming (code PV126)
> that will take place at the Faculty of Informatics,
> Masaryk University, Brno, Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno
> during the week Dec 8-12, 2008.
> The course will take place mostly in the Natural Language Processing
> Lab. If you can, bring your laptop with TeXlive 2008
> installed, you will be given Wi-Fi access. You could use
> (limited number) of computers in the lab.
>
> _Please, confirm that you will attend the course by replying
> to this message._
>
>
> Course title: Typographic programming
>
> Syllabus:
> * There will be a series of meetings where the following topics
>   will be covered.
> * TeX as language, the road from input to output,
>   tokens and nodes.
> * Lua as language, what can it do and what not, why and how do
>   we use it as embedded language.
> * LuaTeX as system, how does the two languages work together in
>   opening up the typesetting engine.
> * CONTEXT MKIV as application, what kind of code is needed to
>   permit the use of advanced font technologies, how to get away
>   with some of TeX's limitations, what kind of technologies are
>   needed to fulfil today's typesetting demands.
> * Typographic programming, what is it and how can it be applied
>   in automated typesetting workflows.
> * In addition one of the computer rooms will be reserved so that
>   we can practice the above and work on the products needed for
>   the exam.
>
> Day 1 (Monday, Dec 8)
>
> 12:00--13:30 room D2: independent motivating lecture
>     Typographic programming with LuaTeX
>     Abstract:
>      - what is involved in typographic programming
>      - why and when do we need it
>      - an introduction in luatex (successor of pdftex)
>      - commented examples of luatex applications
>
> 14:30--17:00 in the NLP lab (room B205):
>   - running tex
>   - some basic manuals
>   - setting up a simple document style
>
>
> Day 2 (Tuesday, Dec 9)
>
> 9:00-11:00 [&16-18 if needed] B517 lecture
>   - introduction to mplib
>   - introduction to the lua scripting language
>   - how does it fit together
>   - examples of documents and coding
>
>   in lab (11:30-13:00, 14-17):
>   - embedding an mp graphic
>   - using lua to handle data
>   - individual project consultations
>
>
> Day 3 (Wednesday, Dec 10)
>
>  9:00-11:00 B517 lecture
>   - setting up a style
>   - questions and answers session
>
>  in lab (11:30-13:00, 14:00-17:00):
>   - working on personal project
>
>
> Day 4 (Thursday, Dec 11)
>  in lab (9:00-12:30 13:30-17:00):
>
>  - working on personal project, consultations
>
>
> Day 5 (Friday, Dec 12)
>
> 9:00-12:30 13:30-16:00 either in C517 or in the lab
>  - students present and discuss results/proposals
>   - suggestions for improvements/implementation
>
>
> In the course we will use luatex, a successor to pdftex developped at
> this university. The macropackage we use is ConTeXt. Here are a few
> url's that can help you prepare for this course:
>
>  > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0012.pdf
>  > http://www.luatex.org binaries and reference manual
>  > http://contextgarden.net information about CONTEXT
>  > http://www.lua.org/ information about the Lua language
>
> In depth TeX macro language knowledge is not needed since we will use
> mostly wrapper macros as probided by ConTeXt. However, it makes sense to
>   play a while with the Lua interpreter beforehand. Documentation can be
> found at
>
> http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/doc/hopl.pdf
> http://www.inf.puc-rio.br/~roberto/lpeg.html
>
> You also need to think about a possible application for instance a small
> pretty printing subsystem (in that case you can use lua for parsing and
> preparation and tex for the typesetting).