ConTEXt meeting 2018
Preliminary programme
| Time | Contributors | Subject | Slides |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, September 2, 2018 | |||
| 19:00 | dinner | ||
| 20:00 | Jano & Mojca & Taco & Hans | Installation workshop / welcome | |
| Monday, September 3, 2018 | |||
| 09:00 | Hans Hagen | Meeting opening | |
| 09:30 | Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: unexpected usage | |
| 10:15 | Taco Hoekwater | A use case for \valign |
slides examples |
| 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Taco Hoekwater | Using texlua for trackplan graphics |
slides |
| 12:15 | everyone (summarized by Alan) | ConTeXt: in one second | |
| 13:30 | lunch | ||
| 15:00 | Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: running remote | |
| 15:45 | Massimiliano Farinella | Running ConTeXt in a Docker container | |
| 16:30 | coffee break | ||
| 17:00 | Taco Hoekwater | mtxrun scripts | slides |
| 18:00 | everyone (summarized by Hraban) | Discussion: how to make a living using ConTeXt | |
| 19:00 | dinner | ||
| 21:00 | Clyde Johnston and Hans Hagen and Massimiliano Farinella | Using ConTeXt and how to create template modules | |
| Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | |||
| 09:00 | Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: side floats | |
| 09:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: floats and columns | |
| 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Massimiliano Farinella | Making manual typesetting adjustments in XHTML | |
| 12:15 | everyone | Brainstorming session: xml | |
| 13:30 | lunch | ||
| 15:00 | Alan Braslau | Edward Tufte's Presenting Data and Information: Teaching to see | |
| 15:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: tables | |
| 16:30 | coffee break | ||
| 17:00 | Idris Samawi Hamid, Luigi Scarso and Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: bidi | |
| 17:30 | everyone | Brainstorming session: scripts | |
| 18:00 | Alan Braslau | Edward Tufte: keynote speech | |
| 19:00 | dinner | ||
| 21:00 | someone | LuaTeX 101 (for Pavneet) | |
| Wednesday, September 5, 2018 | |||
| 09:00 | Hans Hagen and Luigi Scarso | LuaTeX: the move from 5.2 to 5.3 | |
| 09:30 | Hans Hagen and Luigi Scarso | Foreign Function Interface in LuaTeX | slides |
| 10:00 | everyone | Brainstorming session: luatex | |
| 10:30 | coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | Pavneet Arora | MARCS – An online report card system with ConTeXt back end | |
| 11:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: databases | |
| 12:30 | everyone | Short excursion: farm tour | |
| 13:30 | lunch | ||
| 15:00 | Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: stepwise execution | |
| 15:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: debugging | |
| 16:30 | coffee break | ||
| 17:00 | Hans Hagen | discussion: LuaTeX current state (and/or future possibilities) to generate tagged PDF (i.e. PDF/UA) and compliance to other PDF standards | |
| 17:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: pdf backend | |
| 19:00 | dinner | ||
| 21:00 | everyone | Brainstorming session: luatex (continued from 10:00) | |
| Thursday, September 6, 2018 | |||
| 09:00 | Taco Hoekwater | Using metapost as a real life measuring tool | |
| 09:30 | Alan Braslau | The ConTeXt "nodes" package | |
| 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Alan Braslau | Luapost graphics, or rebuilding the (Hobby) graph package. | |
| 12:15 | everyone | Brainstorming session: metapost and graphics | |
| 13:30 | lunch | ||
| 15:00 | excursion | ||
| 19:00 | conference dinner | video (Frans Goddijn) | |
| Friday, September 7, 2018 | |||
| 09:00 | Ulrik Vieth | Math fonts | |
| 09:30 | Taco Hoekwater | Best practices in specifying arbitrary fonts in a detailed way | typescript by taco, cf. talk typescript by hans, in distro |
| 10:00 | Willi Egger | A nice fraktur font | slides typescript |
| 10:30 | Taco Hoekwater | ConTeXt Group journal font discussion | |
| 11:00 | coffee break | ||
| 11:30 | Hans Hagen | ConTeXt: font tracing and tricks | |
| 12:15 | everyone | Brainstorming session: fonts | |
| 13:30 | lunch | ||
| 15:00 | Tomáš Hála and Hans Hagen | interactive PDF documents | |
| 15:45 | everyone | Brainstorming session: interaction | |
| 16:30 | coffee break | ||
| 17:00 | ConTeXt Group members meeting | 2019 announcement | |
| 19:00 | dinner | ||
| 21:00 | Taco Hoekwater | ConTeXt Group journal font discussion (continued) | |