Living and Working with LaTeX, Friday 20 October 2006, London
Jonathan Fine
Below is the announcement of a meeting organised for the UK TeX Users Group
by the London Mathematical Society.
The information below (and latest news) can also be found at:
http://www.lms.ac.uk/latex_meeting.html
Jonathan
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**** UK TeX Users Group ****
**** Living and Working with LaTeX ****
A one-day workshop on using LaTeX to write technical documents, theses,
books and articles. A major theme will be using LaTeX better, for example to
make it easier to collaborate and to re-use and revise documents.
Friday 20 October 2006, London
The speakers will include
Peter Flynn:
Peter Flynn runs the Electronic Publishing Unit at University College Cork
in Ireland. He has been involved with text markup systems since the late
1970s. Peter was on the IETF Working Group for HTML and on the W3C Special
Interest Group which advised on XML. He has written two books (on HTML and
on SGML/XML Tools, both set with LaTeX) as well as being the editor of the
XML FAQ. He also runs the text management consultancy Silmaril.
http://www.silmaril.ie/cgi-bin/blog/
Peter Smith:
Peter Smith is a lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty at Cambridge University,
interested in mathematical logic. He's an enthusiastic late convert to
LaTeX. For the last couple of years, he has maintained a links page "LaTeX
for Logicians", and has written a few short user guides to various packages.
http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/Smith/LaTeX/
Nicola Talbot:
Nicola is an honorary lecturer at the School of Computing Sciences at the
University of East Anglia, and has taught LaTeX to MSc students and also as
part of the Centre for Staff Education Development IT training. Nicola first
started using LaTeX in the early 1990s to write her PhD, and has written
several on-line LaTeX manuals and some LaTeX packages available from the
Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. http://theoval.cmp.uea.ac.uk/~nlct/latex/
This workshop will be of value to you if:
** you are writing a thesis, particularly if it contains symbols or is
otherwise technically demanding
** you already use LaTeX and need to use it better, e.g. for collaboration,
long-term survival and new purposes
** you find yourself helping others with LaTeX, and would like to do so more
effectively
The workshop is organised for the UK TeX User Group by the London
Mathematical Society. The venue is the LMS's De Morgan House, 57-58 Russell
Square, London WC1B 4HS. Underground: Russell Square or Holborn. For a map
see http://www.lms.ac.uk/contact/map.html.
The workshop is free, thanks to generous funding from the UK TeX Users
Group, and all interested are welcome. However numbers are limited and so
advance registration is necessary. To register email Isabelle Robinson
(robi...@lms.ac.uk) at the LMS.
There are limited funds available to contribute in part to the expenses of
students to attend the meeting. Apply, with an estimate of expenses, to the
Treasurer of UK TUG, David Saunders (trea...@uk.tug.org).
For information about the programme, or to make suggestions and requests,
please contact the organisers:
Jonathan Fine (J.F...@open.ac.uk)
Charles Goldie (C.M.G...@sussex.ac.uk)