Kaveh Bazargan River Valley Technologies Play (36min) Download: M4V | MP3 One of TeX’s advantages over traditional typesetting systems is the mechanism to stretch horizonal and vertical glue as needed, in order to aid paragraph building and pagination. But all TeX operators involved in day-to-day page make-up know that this inbuilt intelligence is often `too clever’ […]
Peter Flynn, Jonathan Kew, Barbara Beeton… Play (50min) Download: M4V | MP3 Left to Right: Peter Flynn, Jonathan Kew, Barbara Beeton, Mirko Janc and Dave Walden (Moderator)
Boris Veytsman*, Maria Shmilevich** * AES ITT Industries, ** George Mason University Play (min) Download: M4V | MP3 One of the most time-consuming task of a manager for a federal contractor is the creation of reports: weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly as well as special reports at the end of project or any given date. Such […]
Federico Garcia University of Pittsburgh Play (54min) Download: M4V | MP3 With the proliferation of electronic publishing, the need of LaTeX users to master techniques of PDF interactivity is growing. This presentation discusses some of the immediate additions to ‘regular’ typesetting in the electronic environment, mainly the hypertext possibilities of hyperlinks and bookmarks. Most of these […]
Jonathan Kew SIL International Play (46min) Download: M4V | MP3 What is XeTeX? An extended TEX typesetting engine Using modern font technologies TrueType, OpenType no TeX-specific font installation or configuration needed With “smart rendering” support Apple Advanced Typography (AAT) OpenType Layout for typographic features and complex scripts modern fonts are more than a collection of glyph […]
Ned Hummel University of Nebraska Play (28min) Download: M4V | MP3 In the process of learning LaTeX there are a number of common pitfalls that many of us fall into at some point. For most of us we encounter these pitfalls when writing macros for the first time. One of the great advantages of LaTeX is […]
Klaus Höppner DANTE e.V. Play (44min) Download: M4V | MP3 MetaType 1 is a tool created by Bogusław Jackowski, Janusz Nowacki, and Piotr Strzelczyk for creation of PostScript Type 1 fonts. It uses METAPOST, t1utils and some AWK scripts to start von a METAPOST sources with some special macros. METAPOST was used to create the Latin […]
Alan Wetmore US Army Play (33min) Download: M4V | MP3 I will discuss a somewhat novel use for TeX, preparing an after dinner speech for a scientific conference. My experience some years ago required me to prepare, at quite short notice whehn a scheduled dignatary ws forced to cancel, an entertaining diversion for the attendees of […]
Boris Veytsman George Mason University and AES ITT Industries Play (44min) Download: M4V | MP3 There are many TeX packages available for creating presentations. Mostly they imitate the ubiquitous style of a certain tool, striving to produce Power-Point-like slides, hopefully with better typographical execution. In this talk the principles of good design for presentations are considered. […]
Jim Hefferon St. Michael’s College Play (36min) Download: M4V | MP3 One of the main practical advantages of using TeX via LaTeX is the existence of a great many, widely available, resources. These include add-on packages, books, articles, web pages, and a long history of question and answer discussions. We will discuss some of the main […]
Peter Flom National Development and Research Institutes Play (28min) Download: M4V | MP3 I will discuss some ways that some people who don’t use LaTeX (or ConTeXt or other TeX packages) might be encouraged to use it. I will concentrate on the case of social scientists, either in academia or in other research settings. I will […]
Barbara Beeton* American Mathematical Society Play (59min) Download: M4V | MP3 * Please note that the last part of this talk is incomplete due to recording problems on site. When TUG was first formed, the Internet wasn’t generally available; the logical channel for communication with and among TUG’s members was on paper. So TUGboat came into […]