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No. 1 9 Atypi 2016 with GUST Participating Jerzy B. Ludwichowski TUGboat, Volume 37 (2016), No. 1 9 ATypI 2016 with GUST participating • Also at the General session, a short promotional presentation on TEX, GUST, the e-foundry and Jerzy B. Ludwichowski its math fonts, most likely presented by myself. Abstract • GUST will also be present at the Fonts for Sci- ence exhibition, with math fonts posters. A note concerning the planned GUST participation at ATypI'16, the annual Association Typographique There is an undercurrent of activity directed Internationale conference in Warsaw, Poland. toward some other members of the TEX math fonts community to coerce them into participating, but GUST at ATypI'16 nothing more is settled yet. October 2016 in Warsaw will see ATypI'16, the an- A little bit of history nual conference of Association Typographique Inter- This will be the second ATypI conference in Warsaw. nationale, with the theme of Convergence (atypi. The first, in 1975, is notable for two events. org). GUST has been invited to participate, thanks Peter Karow and Hermann Zapf for the first to Andrzej Tomaszewski and Adam Twardoch, both time publicly presented the idea of outline fonts. well known to BachoT X participants. E The other was due to Marek Decowski and Ry- The details of our participation are still in the szard Dulewicz from the Polish Academy of Sciences, making at this writing, with a deadline of March 31. who described and presented software for a scanner The presentations will be rehearsed at BachoT X E for texts typed with Frutiger's OCR-B. The scanner 2016 (gust.org.pl/bachotex). was used in a semi-automated process at DSP, a The following are planned: printing house in Warsaw. Poland, after the US • A workshop or rather demonstration of automa- and UK, became the third country producing OCR tion with TEX, using presentation and testing scanners. of fonts as an example. This should give the There is a connected story involving Adrian participants an idea of the possibilities for using Frutiger and Roman Tomaszewski, Andrzej Toma- TEX for similar tasks, e.g., dictionaries, cata- szewski's father, a renowned Polish printing master logs, mass production like invoices, multimedia and editor. Roman Tomaszewski was ATypI dele- publications (print, PDF, HTML, EPUB, et al.). gate for Poland and its Board Member in the years • Another workshop or demonstration: A lesson 1965{1992. Under his leadership O´srodek Pism Dru- in math font anatomy, i.e., math fonts in gen- karskich (then Poland's central institution for type- eral and detail, based on a particular font, its faces) produced Litera, a magazine for which such anatomy, constituent alphabets and additional prominent figures as, among others, Jan Tschichold, Adrian Frutiger, Hermann Zapf, Max Caflisch or information within the MATH table. Matthew Carter wrote. They all were Tomaszew- • At the Technology forum, which should have ski's colleagues and often friends. O´srodek Pism a larger audience, a communique by Bogus law Drukarskich complemented Frutiger's OCR-B with Jackowski on math fonts, and ways of automat- Polish diacritics. The problem was to get the so- ing their production, with a short mention of augmented IBM Selectric Typewriter printing heads MetaType1: block schema and an overview of to Poland, past the then-prevailing COCOM import the guiding principles. restrictions. Frutiger caused some twenty such heads • Also planned for the Technology forum, a pre- to be made at the IBM factory in Paris, and sim- sentation by Piotr Strzelczyk on the merits and ply put them into the pockets of a Polish Airlines demerits of Unicode in connection with typog- pilot, to be received by Roman Tomaszewski at the raphy. Warsaw airport. At the 1975 Warsaw ATypI conference, Frutiger • At the General session, a two-voiced presenta- was given a medal commemorating 500 years of print- tion Slurs, Braces, Radicals | Obstacle or Chal- ing in Poland. Only a few participants were aware lenge with 1. Obstacle by Bogus law Jackowski of the underlying main feat. and 2. Challenge by Marek Ry´cko. This is about a \philosophy of typography", a proposal of a Jerzy B. Ludwichowski new typesetting paradigm, in the making by Migdalowa 21 both gentlemen since some time. BachoTEX reg- 87-100 Toru´n ulars should know what to expect. We hope the Poland presentations to be both eye- and mind-opening. Jerzy.Ludwichowski at gmail dot com ATypI 2016 with GUST participating.
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