Abstracts
New proposals should be addressed to Taco Hoekwater or Alan Braslau.
Managing colors
Luigi Scarso and Hans Hagen
If you produce a document for printing a client or printing house can demand (no matter how unreasonable or irrelevant that is) to provide a document in cmyk colors or in gray. In this session we will show some ways to deal with this (semi automatically) in ConTeXt. We will also discuss some conversion methods and their implications on quality.
Ligatures, hyphenation and kerning
Hans Hagen
Although anything is possible concerning ligatures, hyphenation and kerning, some things are hard to support concurrently. One reason is conflicting demands, another is complexity and, of course, performance also plays a role. we will explore some of these issues in this presentation.
Epub: the state of affairs
Hans Hagen
This presentation will be mainly an update of recent developments (especially with respect to CSS support) and a discussion about what more is needed.
Metafun
Hans Hagen
The last year, the low level ConTeXt-Metafun interface was upgraded a bit and as a side effect some new commands were added. These changes has had an impact on the readability of code as well as an improvement in performance. We will show the changes and discuss new possibilities. You can make your wishlist here.
Tokens
Hans Hagen
In this more technical talk I will explain how the new token scanners in luaTeX have influenced the latest version of the TeX-lua interface in ConTeXt. This was a rather massive low-level update. This talk gives you an idea why for a while the beta had some related parsing bugs and why the change was needed.
Hyphenation
Hans Hagen
We are in the process of some changes in the way hyphenation is handled. One reason is that we want to be able to plug in additional methods; another is that the pipeline for further processing of the character stream becomes easier and more predictable. As usual you can bring your wishlist.
Calling MlBibTeX's Functions
Jean-Michel Hufflen
New programs such as LuaTeX allow a cooperation of tasks performed by typesetting functions and other functions, more related to 'actual' programming and written in Lua. Within such a framework, it may be of interest if some tasks performed by our bibliography processor MlBibteX can be called as external functions. We show which tasks and how to organise them.
TeX, ConTeXt, lua, Metapost, XML or several (or all) of the above?
Alan Braslau
ConTeXt is based on luatex, so we have TeX, ConTeXt as well as lua appearing in our code. But ConTeXt also integrates mplib, thus MetaPost syntax also is very present. Furthermore, XML input is also supported, and a ConTeXt workflow can be mostly based on XML.
Much of ConTeXt mixes TeX(ConTeXt) syntax with lua helpers, but this can be mostly transparent to the user. Metapost, too, now can exchange information and make use of lua code for tasks such as the processing of data, and this changes our approach to programming functionality. Indeed, each syntax is well tuned towards its principal task so we need to isolate tasks to environments that are best suited. But how can we do this?
This will be more of a discussion with a follow-up session where solutions will be explored.
Evidence-based hyphenation: a wishlist
Arthur Reutenauer
Hyphenation, or word division, is a central part of any typographical system and has always been close to the heart of TeX programmers. It is also an area that shows a lot a variety, both between languages and between different styles within the same language. In this talk I will show actual examples of this diversity and draw up a list of requirements of what users can expect from ConTeXt.
A short history of the alphabet — and writing
Taco Hoekwater
Before humans invented typing, textual communication was done using handwriting and the occasional bit of chiseling. Our current alphabet did not suddenly appear ready-made, and over time there were also many trends in handwriting style. This is a short overview on how we got from pens and clay tablets to virtual keyboards and computer tablets.
Integrating external bookmarks
Taco Hoekwater
ConTeXt nowadays allows to include the outline (bookmarks) from included PDFs into your own document’s bookmark section. A talk and demonstration that explains the interface and its use.
CLD in Production
Taco Hoekwater
DocWolves B.V. uses ConTeXt to generate PDF for meeting attendees. Recently, we rewrote the system to make use of ConTeXt Lua Documents instead of the more traditional TeX macro based approach.