4th ConTEXt Meeting: Brejlov (Prague), Czech Republic, September 13–18, 2010

Preliminary programme

See abstracts for the detailed description. All talks are in English unless stated otherwise on Saturday and Sunday.

The preliminary program in PDF.

Monday, 13. 9.

18:30 Dinner 90
20:00 Taco Hoekwater / Hans Hagen / Mojca Miklavec ConTeXt installation clinic workshop 120

Tuesday, 14. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Conference opening 15
09:15 Arthur Reutenauer Keynote talk talk 15
09:30 Taco Hoekwater Reference manual update talk 15
09:45 Patrick Gundlach Wiki context reference talk 15
10:00 Taco Hoekwater / Hans Hagen Other documentation news talk 15
10:15 Peter Münster (presented by Taco) Reference syntax in lua talk 15
10:30 Coffee 30
11:00 Hans Hagen Why structure matters talk 30
11:30 Wolfgang Schuster Module documentation talk 30
12:00 Luigi Scarso modules_mkiv talk 30
12:30 Lunch 90
14:00 Mari Voipio A Different Philosophy – Thoughts on teaching ConTeXt to non-techies discussion 30
14:30 Mari Voipio Observations on approaches to learning ConTeXt and writing documentation to match discussion 60
15:30 Coffee 30
16:00 Wolfgang Schuster xml interface files and internal module doku (%D, %M etc.) talk 30
16:30 Hans Hagen Requirements For Documentation talk 30
17:00 Hans Hagen My Slowly Growing Test Suite talk 30
17:30 Documentation discussion discussion 60
18:30 Dinner 90
20:00 Idris Samawi Hamid Towards the First ConTeXt Book talk 30
20:30 Hans Hagen Document workflow tutorial 30
21:00 Hans Hagen Whatever You Want To Know q&a 90

Wednesday, 15. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Mari Voipio Uses for ConTeXt in a standard office environment talk 30
09:30 Hans Hagen / Mojca Miklavec The database module, MkIV version talk 30
10:00 Hans Hagen XML processing news talk+workshop 60
11:00 Coffee 30
11:30 Alan Braslau Plotting data with Metafun/Metapost talk+discussion 45
12:15 Alan Braslau Drawing diagrams using the chart module talk+discussion 45
13:00 Lunch 90
14:30 Hans Hagen Font Goodies talk 30
15:00 Mojca Miklavec Some thoughts on typescripts talk+discussion 60
16:00 Coffee 30
16:30 Aditya Mahajan (presented by Luigi) Beg, borrow, and steal – running external filters in ConTeXt talk 30
17:00 Alan Braslau Drawing chemical structures using ppchTeX talk 30
17:30 Wolfgang Schuster The letter module talk+workshop 90
19:00 Dinner 90
20:30 Taco Hoekwater tlcontrib.metatex.org talk 30
21:00 Mojca Miklavec ConTeXt minimals, "Server edition" talk+discussion 30
21:30 Patrick Gundlach contextgarden.net q&a 30

Thursday, 16. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Luigi Scarso Souvenir d'Italie talk 30
09:30 Hans Hagen Context Lua Documents talk 30
10:00 30
10:30 Coffee 30
11:00 Taco Hoekwater Escrito talk 30
11:30 Patrick Gundlach LuaTeX without TeX – or: the hidden beauty of TeX talk 45
12:15 Aditya Mahajan (presented by Taco) Math wishlist discussion 30
12:45 Lunch 90
14:15 Relax time to be announced (trip, walk, excursion)

Friday, 17. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Hans Hagen How Luatex and Context Proceed talk 30
09:30 Taco Hoekwater The current state of LuaTeX talk 30
10:00 Taco Hoekwater Metapost developments talk 30
10:30 Coffee 30
11:00 Arthur Reutenauer The ever-regenerating hydra: hyphenation patterns in Unicode, and beyond talk 30
11:30 David Březina General issues in multi-script typography talk 45
12:15 Idris Samawi Hamid (presented by Taco) Oriental TeX crosses the Rubicon. Advanced Qurʾanic Typesetting in MkIV. talk 30
12:45 Lunch 90
14:15 Karel Píška Fonts with complex OpenType tables talk 30
14:45 Ulrik Vieth Experiences typesetting OpenType math with LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX talk 30
15:15 Piotr Strzelczyk Short info about new release of Antykwa Półtawskiego font talk 30
15:45 Coffee 30
16:15 Luigi Scarso Playing with Flash in ConTeXt-mkiv talk 30
16:45 Karel Horák Do it better ... talk 30
17:15 Taco Hoekwater Lua for Beginners workshop 75
18:30 Conference close 15
18:45 Dinner 90
20:15 Taco Hoekwater Metapost details demo 30

Saturday, 18. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Taco Hoekwater Lua for font lovers workshop 90
10:30 Coffee 30
11:00 Willi Egger Arranging Pages for Printing + Creating a Flyer talk+workshop 90
12:30 Lunch 90
14:00 EuroTeX talks? 120
16:00 Coffee 15
16:15 Opening TeXperience 2010
16:15 Jaroslav Hajtmar The ScanCSV.lua Library talk 45 Czech/English
17:00 David Březina Skolar – Designing a Typeface for Academic Publications talk 30
17:30 Tomáš Hála Marking of Proof-sheets in Publishing Practice and Its Implementation in TeX System talk 20 Czech
17:50 Dinner 90
19:20 Jan Prichystal TeX Typesetting on Web talk 30
19:50 Roman Trušník Typesetting Bibliography of American Literature in Czech Translation: 2000 & 2010 talk 30
20:20 Zdeněk Wagner / Anshuman Pandey / Jaya Saraswati Xindy Sort and Merge Rules for Indic languages talk 60
21:20 Late tea 15
21:35 TeXperience 2010 Book Contest 30 Czech
22:05 Milan Štourač Introducing New Traveler's Book 15 Czech
22:20 Milan Štourač Wanderer's Notebook: Iran, Azerbaijan & Thailand, Laos, Cambodia 90 Czech

Sunday, 19. 9.

8:00 Breakfast 60
09:00 Petr Olšák Typesetting Math: Internal Algorithms in TeX tutorial 90 Czech
10:30 Tea 15
10:45 Jan Štěpnička / Jan Šustek Using TeX for Organizing International Mathematical Competition talk 45 Czech
11:30 Mirek Olšák CerTeXicate – Online Printing of High School Certificates talk 15 Czech
11:45 Jan Šustek Macros Which Handle Arithmetics with Big Numbers talk 15 English/Czech
12:00 Jan Štěpnička LaTeX2rtf – TeX in Building Industry talk 15 Czech
12:15 Miloš Brejcha Pilsen – Venue for TeXperience 2011 talk 15 Czech
12:30 Viva TeXperience 2011!
12:30 Lunch 90