The Committee have just received TeX Live 2009 DVDs from the suppliers. They will be mailed out to members in the near future. Non-members interested in getting hold of a DVD should e-mail the Committee.
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UK-TUG has funds available for supporting TeX related projects, made available by a motion passed by its members. To that end, we have set up a sub-committee to identify projects that the members would like to support. The sub-committee is headed by Jonathan Underwood.
All projects that benefit the members will be considered. Examples might be: software projects projects aimed at providing training and teaching resources users, documentation projects, support for meetings etc. UK-TUG can pay for web-site hosting, travel to conferences, purchase of books and similar materials. It can also pay for team members to travel to meet each other (but not for the work done at that meeting).
There is no deadline for submission of proposals, and we are happy to receive applications of support for projects of all sizes. Of course, funds are limited and so those who apply earlier are more likely to succeed!
More details can be found on the Funding page.
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The AGM of the UK TeX Users Group will take place on Saturday 14th
November at 2 pm at:
Physics and Astronomy, Room E7
University College London
London (walking distance from Euston)
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/phys/find
The entrance to the room is inside the main quadrangle of UCL. Enter
from Gower Street, and the entrance to the building is in the far left
corner. We will put up some signs from there.
There will be a speaker meeting and workshop as part of the AGM day, to
run from 11 am to 5 pm. The outline programme is:
- 11 pm Arrival, and coffee is available
- 11:30 am to 1 pm
- Jonathan Fine: “Report on Mathematical Content Workshop”
http://groups.google.com/group/uk-math-content-2009/web/home
- Joseph Wright: “xparse – beyond \newcommand”
- Lightening talks: Open to anyone to give a 5 to 10 minute talk on any
TeX related subject of their choice
- Jonathan Fine: “Report on Mathematical Content Workshop”
- 1 pm to 2 pm Lunch/informal discussions
- 2 pm to 3 pm UK-TUG AGM
- 3 pm to 5 pm Workshop on TeX documentation and support
If you wish to give a talk, either in the lightning sessions or a longer
presentation, the committee would like to hear from you.
There is no charge for attending any part of the session: non-members
are also welcome, but of course cannot vote at the AGM!
Planning for TUG 2010 is already under way. In the UK-TUG inbox this morning was this message from Karl Berry:
The upcoming TUG 2010 conference will be held in in San Francisco, California, USA, from June 28–30, 2010. We are still finalizing the exact venue, but wanted to announce the dates now that they are firm.
Since 2010 is TeX’s 32nd birthday, the Grand Wizard has graciously
agreed to participate. In addition to Dr. Knuth, many of the other
original Stanford TeX project members, including David Fuchs,
John Hobby, Michael Plass, Oren Patashnik, Tom Rokicki, and
Luis Trabb-Pardo plan to be present.We will be scheduling several activities for the final day (June 30),
including the conference banquet, to honor the work of the Stanford TeX project and celebrate TeX’s 32nd anniversary.The call for papers, registration form, and other details will be posted
as soon as we know them, at:
http://tug.org/tug2010/
Earlier today, we had a security issue with the site. Everything has now been restored from our back up system, but there may be a few issues with more obscure content. Please let us know is there is anything up.
As some members will already be aware, Eitan Gurari died suddenly late in June. Eitan was the developer of tex4ht, probably the most useful tool for converting from TeX to HTML. Our thoughts are with his family.
Niall Mansfield has been in touch with the Committee, looking for some input on the potential for getting a number of LaTeX books in German translated in English. The general topics of the books are:
- LaTeX reference
- Maths with LaTeX
- Tables with LaTeX
- PSTricks
- KOMA-Script
Niall is hoping to to get input into three general questions:
- Is this a useful book for the (La)TeX world?
- What sort of demand would there be? (This isn’t scientific: “wow, lots of people would need this” or “great book, but nobody is likely to buy it because …” is the sort of granularity that’s OK.)
- How long would this book last before a new edition is likely to be:
- desirable
- essential
After some discussion with the Committee, Niall has agree to take the books along to the regular The Tech Pub Crawl this Tuesday (the 5th of May). Niall will be at the The Marketplace Bar, 11 Marketplace, London W1W 8AH from about 6 p.m. (nearest tube Oxford Circus). Anyone wishing to get hold of Niall directly should e-mail the Committee.
The Committee has received a message from the Open University (OU). As many UK-TUG members will know, the OU is a long standing centre of TeX use in the UK. They are now looking for a TeX consultant for their system.
A review of TeX at The Open University
The Open University wants expert advice and an outside view on how it should develop its system and workflow for the production of mathematics and physics course with heavy mathematical content.
The present system, established in 1992, uses a heavily customized version of LaTeX for both authoring and pagination to PDF. We now wish in addition to generate XML outputs for use on our virtual learning environment.
We are looking for an independent consultant to investigate, meet with stakeholders, and write a report with reasoned recommendations. Experience of TeX, of mathematical content and of XML is required.
We would like this review to take place in July 2009, but other dates are possible. To be considered for this work please email an expression of interest to G.E.Price (at) open.ac.uk by 12 noon on Friday 15 May 2009. Further information is available and will be sent to those who express interest.
The Grand Wizard of TeX, Donald Knuth, will be speaking at the the British Society for the History of Mathematics‘ meeting Mathematics and Fiction in Oxford at the end of May. Professor Knuth will be talking about his novel Surreal Numbers: it is bound to be an interesting event!
In the UK-TUG inbox recently was a mail from Karl Berry (TUG President) with information about upcoming deadlines for TUG 2009 in Notre Dame, Indiana. Karl said:
TUG 2009 will take place in Notre Dame, Indiana, from July 28–31. See http://tug.org/tug2009 for the registration form, maps, the proposals already accepted, and more.
April has several deadlines related to the conference:
- April 13: deadline for abstract submissions; see
http://tug.org/tug2009/cfp.html for the call for papers.Although we may be able to accept proposals after the deadline, of course potential attendees would like to know what they’ll be seeing. So if you’d like to give a talk, please try to submit an abstract by the 13th.
- April 17: deadline for bursary applications; see
http://tug.org/bursary for information and the application form. No late applications will be accepted.- April 27: deadline for the early bird registration discount. After this, the registration fee will be increased. Register for the conference at http://tug.org/tug2009/register.html (it will redirect you to Notre Dame’s web site).
Hope to see you there!