conference
malcolm clark
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
IT Services m.c...@warwick.ac.uk
LSE
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
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).
malcolm clark