Practical TeX 2004 - Post-Conference Wrapup

Following is the final schedule of talks and list of participants for the conference. A proceedings will be published in a future issue of TUGboat. Please email us if you have any feedback, suggestions for future conferences, or are interested in hosting a conference.

A second track in the mornings for beginning and intermediate LaTeX students was available, taught by Cheryl Ponchin and Sue DeMerrit. More info on the classes page.

Sunday, July 18, 2004

The day before the conference proper, participants enjoyed San Francisco, including the old Alcatraz prison island in the bay. One group biked across the Golden Gate.

Gathering for the reception Sunday evening.

Monday, July 19, 2004

	Karl Berry TeX Users Group	Opening
	Peter Flynn Silmaril Consultants	Keynote address: TeX and the interface
	Ernest Prabhakar Apple	Greetings from Apple and support for TeX
	Eitan Gurari Ohio State University	TeX4ht: HTML production (abstract)
	Kaveh Bazargan  River Valley Technologies	LaTeX to MathML and back: A case study of Elsevier journals
	Hans Hagen NTG, Pragma ADE	The pros and cons of PDF
	Sue DeMerrit (afternoon session chair)
	Jenny Levine Duke University Press	Label replacement in graphics
	David Allen University of Kentucky	Screen presentations, manuscripts, and posters from the same LaTeX source
	Baden Hughes University of Melbourne	TeX and XML
	Han The Thanh University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City	Micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX in practice
	Lance Carnes (moderator)	q&a

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

	Volker R.W. Schaa Dante	pdfTeX and XML workflow for conference proceedings (slides)
	Anita Schwartz University of Delaware	Paperless dissertations at the University of Delaware (slides)
	Hans Hagen	MetaPost: More than math and fonts (slides)
	Brooks Moses Stanford University	MetaPlot, MetaContour, and other collaborations with MetaPost (slides)
	Cheryl Ponchin Center for Communications Research	LaTeX survey
	Steve Grathwohl Duke University Press	What is ConTeXt, that we should be mindful of it? (slides)
	William Richter Texas Life Insurance Co.	TeX and scripting languages (slides)
4pm	q&a

In the evening, we enjoyed treasure hunt and banquet, masterminded by Lance Carnes and his family.

Wednesday, July 21, 2004

	Nelson Beebe University of Utah	A bibliographer's toolbox (slides)
	David Jones American Mathematical Society	The amsrefs package (slides)
	Steve Peter Beech Stave Press	TeX and linguistics (slides)
	Hans Hagen	ConTeXt
	Steve Grathwohl	75 years of the Duke Mathematical Journal online
	panel: Digital Publishing	moderator: Lance Carnes; Kaveh Bazargan, Karl Berry, Peter Flynn, David Fuchs, Hans Hagen.

Thursday, July 22, 2004

The following classes were offered on this fourth day of the Practical TeX 2004 conference.

• Practical TeX on the Web (Peter Flynn).
• Intermediate and Advanced LaTeX (Sue DeMeritt, Cheryl Ponchin).
• Introduction to ConTeXt (Hans Hagen).

Participants

1. David Allen / University of Kentucky
2. Mitchell Bakos / PPI, Belmont, CA
3. Kaveh Bazargan / TUGIndia, River Valley Technologies
4. Nelson Beebe / University of Utah
5. Karl Berry / TeX Users Group
6. Linda Bethel / Graduate School of Business, Stanford
7. Jeannie Brown / Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine
8. Brian Carnes / Personal TeX, Inc.
9. Lance Carnes / Personal TeX, Inc.
10. Dennis Claudio / Superior Court, CA
11. Barry Dale / Caloundra, Australia
12. Sue DeMeritt / Center for Communications Research, La Jolla, CA
13. Michael Dickerson / Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Pomona College
14. Sandra Farrier / Washington, DC
15. Ronald Fehd / Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
16. Peter Flynn / Silmaril Consultants
17. David Fuchs / Palo Alto, CA
18. Steve Grathwohl / Duke University Press
19. Eitan Gurari / Ohio State University
20. Hans Hagen / NTG, Pragma ADE
21. Han The Thanh / University of Education, Ho Chi Minh City
22. Joseph Hesse / Saint Paul College
23. L. Carole Holbrook / Oak Ridge Laboratory, TN
24. Baden Hughes / University of Melbourne
25. Ned Hummel / University of Nebraska Lincoln
26. Susan Huot / Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
27. Calvin Jackson / Caltech
28. David Jones / American Mathematical Society
29. Nickolas Kalivas / Westminster School, London
30. Richard Koch / University of Oregon
31. Robin Laakso / TeX Users Group
32. Alice Leonhardt / Rutgers University, NJ
33. Jenny Levine / Duke University Press
34. Donna Magnani / American Physical Society, Ridge, NY
35. Barbara Mastrian / Rutgers University, NJ
36. Denise McCall / Institute for Defense Analysis, Princeton, NJ
37. Wendy McKay / Control and Dynamical Systems, California Institute of Technology
38. Barbara Miller / University of California, Riverside
39. Brooks Moses / Stanford University
40. Noelle Noble / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle
41. Tim Null / San Jose, CA
42. Arthur Ogawa / TeX Consultants, Three Rivers, CA
43. Elliott Pearl / Toronto
44. Steve Peter / Beech Stave Press, NJ
45. Cheryl Ponchin / Center for Communications Research, Princeton, NJ
46. Andrew Porter / Livermore, CA
47. K. David Prince / College of Engineering, University of Washington
48. William Richter / Texas Life Insurance Co.
49. Volker R.W. Schaa / Dante
50. Anita Schwartz / University of Delaware
51. Heidi Sestrich / Department of Statistics, Carnegie-Mellon University
52. Catherine Schrott / Professional Publications, Belmont, CA
53. Kathy Sheldon / Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Pomona College
54. Alistair Smith / Sunrise Setting, Devon, UK
55. Doug Smylie / Earth & Space Science & Engineering, York University
56. Terri Spence / Duke University Press, Durham, NC
57. Anne Taub / ISIS, University of California, Irvine
58. Larry Thomas / Department of Mathematics, Saint Peter's College, New Jersey
59. Alan Wetmore / US Army, Adelphi, MD
60. Faye Yeager / Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

To round things out, here is a potpourri of other photos from throughout the conference. Our great thanks to Alan Wetmore and Tim Null for the photographs.