TUG 2002

[Robin Fairbairns]

TUG 2002 Annual Meeting and Conference
September 1-7, Trivandrum, India
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We are pleased to announce that the most exciting TeX event of
2002, the international conference of TeX Users Group is
scheduled to be conducted in India during September 1--7, 2002
at Park Center, Technopark, Trivandrum, Kerala. This is going
to be the first of its kind in the subcontinent and we are
hoping for excellent participation.

You are warmly invited to participate and/or offer a
presentation at this most exciting event. We want to make this  a
big success, and we want lots of high-quality presentations. The
theme for TUG 2002 is `Stand up and be proud of TeX!'. Show us
why it is still the typesetting tool of choice, the range of
material it can handle, and especially how it can coexist with
the new world of XML. We want to hear about

    * using TeX to typeset XML
    * multilingual typesetting using Omega
    * high-quality hyperdocuments using pdfTeX
    * fonts for non-Latin languages
    * new directions for Metafont and Metapost

Full conference details can be found at

   http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/

suffice it to say here that Kerala is a very beautiful part of
India, where you will be sure of very warm hospitality and
excellent facilities. This is a marvellous opportunity to visit
one of the most interesting countries in the world. The TUG 2002
program committee chair is Sebastian Rahtz of Oxford
University and organising committee chair is Satish Babu of
InApp, Trivandrum. 

Proposals for papers shall be directed immediately to
papers at tug2002.tug.org.in.

Dates

    * January/February 2002: send in abstracts for papers
    * end of February 2002: notification of acceptance of paper
    * end of March 2002: preliminary program available
    * May 2002: send first version of full paper
    * July 2002: send final version of full paper
    * 4th-7th September 2002: TUG conference in India

Pre-conference Tutorials (1 to 3 September 2002):

    * Introduction to TeX
    * LaTeX to SGML/XML/MathML conversion
    * XML and XSL transformation procedures
    * TEI XML
    * Generation of hyperlinked documents with pdfTeX and ConTeXt
    * Multilingual typesetting using Omega

Email ids for contact:

   tug2002 at tug.org.in         -- General information
   papers at tug2002.tug.org.in  -- Submission of papers
   finance at tug2002.tug.org.in -- Financial matters
   travel at tug2002.tug.org.in  -- Travel information
   media at tug2002.tug.org.in   -- Media contact


Robin Fairbairns
For TUG 2002 Organising Committee

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