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The 17th Annual TEX Users Group Meeting 5O3ϒTEX

July 28 ± August 2, 1996 TUG, CyrTUG,JINR

Time has arrived when TEX, the Polyglot, who already for poster sessions, or any problem or subject that interests many years happily ªspokeº a lot of different languages you. Please send you suggestions to the conference elec- written in the Latin alphabet, starts extending its knowl- tronic address [email protected]. edge also in the ®eld of other alphabets. During the Sum- Write to usÐall your proposals will enrich the theme our mer of 1996 a visit is planned to Russia where T X will E theme: have its ®rst practical session in Cyrillic. Russia is that large country, with its enormous planes, in- habited by those enigmatic Russians, who started the cen- Polytechnic tury with a Revolution, and ended it with ªPerestroykaº. 5O3ϒTEX Polymath =  The country who founded a brilliant mathematical school,  Polyglot colonized the Cosmos, conquered the world with its litera- ture, music, and ballet.  Practical Information So what awaits the TEX user who decided to attend TUG'96? Conference cost The Conference Committee foresees a cost in the range At Moscow's international Airport Sheremetyevo-2 the 550±600 USD. This sum includes the complete cost of participants to the conference will be met by a member of the conference, namely the registration fee, lodging (6 the organizing committee and be taken by bus to Dubna, nights with six breakfasts, lunches, and dinners), coffee/tea the town where from July 28th to August 2nd the 17th breaks, social events, and transport from Sheremetevo TUG conference will take place (see below for more about Aeroport to Dubna. The payment should be made in the Dubna). If, for some reason or another, you see cold, the following way: a non-refundable sum of $100 per person taiga, and white bears appearing, then we can reassure you, should be transferred to the following Moscow bank ac- Dubna is in the European part of Russia, and if you want to count before June 1st: see the ice on the nordic Oceans, you will have to travel further than you would to reach the subtropics of the Black Sea shore. Indeed, you will soon ®nd that the pine forest Name of Bank Credit-Moscow in which the comfortable town of Dubna is situated will Russia, Moscow, 113054 remind you of a park. AT the end of July, the weather is 6-TH Monetchikovsky Per., 8 mostly warm and sunny, with an average temperature of Swift Code: CRMORUMM 28C◦. The guests will be housed in a comfortable hotel A/C N: 00107091799 on+ the banks of the Volga river in single or double rooms Upon receipt of that sum an of®cial invitation, necessary (hot water, shower, telephone, television). The Russian for obtaining a visa will be faxed to the participantÐso be ªcuisineº is characterized by its abundance, so one can for- sure to include your FAX number. The remainder of the get about slimming. registration fee (between $450 and $500) will be payable The social-cultural program includes a picnic on the pic- in cash upon arrival at the Conference site in Dubna (no turesque banks of the Volga, where we will be taken by credit cards or cheques can be used in Dubna). For partici- boat, a bus excursion to Sergiev Posad (the center of pants of economically weaker countries or for students we the Russian Orthodox Church, where Andrey Slephkhin hope to arrange partial support via sponsors. worksÐsee his article on page....), and, the last day a visit to Moscow, where, at the end of the day, the participants Visas can be dropped of at the airport to ¯y home, or at one of Most of the visitors from outside Russia will need a the railway stations, if they want to prolong their visit. visa to attend the Conference. Therefore, for arrang- The conference's scienti®c program will be announced as ing a visa into Russia, participants should inform the soon as we receive from you, dear readers, proposals for Conference Secretariat (Mrs. N. Dokalenko, E-mail presentions, courses that you would like to teach or attend, [email protected]; Fax 7 095 975 2381 Bijlage K The 17th Annual TEX Users Group Meeting 27 or 7 09621 65 891) of their and (possibly) the accompany- river and the Moscow sea 120 km to the north of Moscow. ing person(s)'s full name, date of birth, citizenship, pass- One can reach Dubna from Moscow for 2 hours going by port number, arrival and departure dates. The Secretariat car, by bus or by express train. It will take you 1.5 hours will forward by fax the visa support message to the par- to go to Dubna from the Sheremetyevo-2 international air- ticipants with which they should apply for visas to the port. Water ways connect Dubna not only to the Rus- nearest Russian Embassy or Consulate. Please note that sian Volga cities, but also to the waters of the Black, the you should apply for a visa valid for Dubna, Moscow, and Caspian, the Baltic and the White seas. Sergiev Posad1. There is no harmful environmental impact of the plants, Transportation this together with the large tracks of forest in the environs The Organizing Committee will arrange direct transporta- of Dubna, vast water area with small islands is quite favor- tion by bus from Sheremetyevo-2 airport to Dubna (130 km able for the sphere of tourism and rest. The Volga embank- north of Moscow). Not later than four working days be- ment is one of the prettiest parts of the town. At springtime fore a participant wishes to be met at the airport should the the streets of Dubna are full of lilac odour, the apple-trees Secretariat be informed of the ¯ight number, precise date are pink-white; in summer lime-trees, maples, birch-trees and time of arrival (Moscow time). It is our intention to and poplars make the town seem totally green; in autumn have each participant met by a member of the Organizing the town is all golden excepting the ever-green old pine- Committee, who will accompany the Conference guests to trees. The town's modern look harmonizes with the quiet- Dubna. ness of the surrounding forest. The town was built in the midst of a forest. There are separate patches of trees in the town itself, and the town park is just a part of the forest. It Organizing Committee takes just a few minutes to get to the forest from the shop- Koren'kov Vladimir Vasil'evich (Dubna) ± chairman ping centre on foot. A few minute's walk and you are out- [email protected] side the city limits! Maxovaja Irina Anatol'evna (Moskow) ± chairman Small as it is, Dubna is a real metropolis. It is a scienti®c [email protected] metropolis. It is a big little city, as a visiting american sci- Dokalenko Natal'ja Mixajlovna (Dubna) entist called it many years ago. Since the foundation of [email protected] the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) the name Luk'janov Stanislav Olegovich (Dubna) of Dubna has constantly been in the pages of the world's [email protected] newspapers and journals. Dubna is one of the world centres for fundamental research in nuclear physics. The Joint In- Kuznetsova Marina Vilorovna (Moskow) [email protected] stitute plays an important role as a coordinator of the inves- tigations of the scientists from 18 JINR member-state insti- Korobova Galina Aleksandrovna (Dubna) tutes. The wide international scienti®c and technical coop- [email protected] eration is one of the fundamental concepts of the JINR. Strelkov Sergej (Moskow) Aleksandrovich Dubna is indeed a town of international friendship. For- eign speech can be heard everywhere. But the words, no Rahtz Sebastian (Oxford) matter in which language they are pronounced are clear [email protected] to everybody: friendly cooperation and fraternity unite all the physicists and mathematicians living and working in Program Committee Dubna, into an international scienti®c community. Goossens Michel (Geneva) ± chairman On October 3, 1994 Dubna opened its doors to the ®rst uni- [email protected] versity, ªInternational University of Dubna: Nature, Soci- Pankrat'ev Evgenij Vasil'evich (Moskow) ± chairman ety and Man.º The university is composed of ®ve ªcathe- [email protected] draº of chairs, including socio-economic sciences, ecol- Burbank Mimi (USA) ogy and earth science, computer education, linguistics, and [email protected] health and physical education. Two more cathedras - law ZHabitskaja Tat'jana Jakovlevna (Dubna) and government and technology - are also being contem- [email protected] plated. Hohlov Jurij Evgen'evich (Moskow) The town has a great experience in holding international conferences, exchange of delegations between countries in Welcome to Dubna! the sphere of science, education and culture. Dubna and La Crosse (Wisconsin, USA) are sister cities. Dubna is fa- Dubna was founded in 1956 when the Convention estab- mous for its hospitality. Famous scientists, public ®gures lishing the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research was signed. and statemen from different countries visit Dubna. They The town is situated on the picturesque banks of the Volga 1Those planning to visit other cities in Russia should obtain themselves the relevant documents and join them to the visa application, so that the needed names of the places to be visited can be entered on the visa form. Bijlage K The 17th Annual TEX Users Group Meeting 28 are always impressed by the gracious welcome they receive TEXSystemsI in Dubna and discontinual generosity which Dubna resi- JOHN PLAICE and YANNIS HARALAMBOUS ªLatest dents demonstrate. Developments in Omegaº A few words on Moscow DAG LANGMYHR ªStarTEXº Moscow, the capital of Russia, has a population of some GABRIEL VALIENTE FERUGLIO ªDo Journals Honour nine million people. It is a city rich in cultural, architectural LATEX Submissions?º and historical monuments, and, at the same time, a rapidly S.V. ZNAMENSKII and D.E. LEINARTAS ªA New developing modern urban community having brand-new Approach to TEX-related Programs with a blocks of ¯ats, long, straight and broad avenues, parks, User-friendly Interfaceº gardens, stadiums, schools, cinemas, department stores, recreation centres, bridges and highways. Trough forward- looking, it cherishes the memory of its past, and its old sec- 17:00±18:30 TUG Business Meeting tions lend it a special charm. ± Tuesday a.m. ± TEX Systems II Preliminary Program IRINA MAKHOVAYA ªTEX in Russia: ab ovoº JOSEPH V. R OMANOVSKY and FEDOR L. YELTSOV ± Saturday p.m. ± ªStrategies of LATEX Insertionsº Arrival and registration IVA N G. VSESVETSKY ªThe Straight Gate to TEXº Dinner LAURENT SIEBENMANN ªElectronic Posting and ± Sunday a.m. ± Archiving of TEX-composed Scienti®c Documentsº Late Registrations STRELKOV S.A. AND G.R. EPSHTEIN ªMaking Indexes Opening Ceremony for VINITI's `Mathematic' Abstracts Journalº ± Sunday p.m. ± M. I. GRINCHUK ªHow to Teach TEX to Repeat Signs Fonts when Breaking Formulaeº KAREL PÂISKAÏ ªCyrillic Alphabetsº ± Tuesday p.m. ±

JORGÈ KNAPPEN ªDC and TC FontsÐA Status Reportº Buses depart to Sergiev Posad (packed lunch)

REI FUKUI (Presented by KNAPPEN)ªTIPA:ANew IPA Font for LATEXº ± Wednesday a.m. ± OLGA G. LAPKO ªFull Cyrillic: How Many Graphics Languages?º KEES VAN DER LAAN ªTurtle Graphics and TEXÐa A.S. BERDNIKOV and O.A. GRINEVA ªComputer Child Can Do Itº Modern Typefaces as the Multiple Master Fontsº KEES VAN DER LAAN ªGraphics and TEXÐa A.S. BERDNIKOV and S.B. TURTIA ªVFComb 1.3ÐA Reappraisal of METAFONT/MetaPostº Program to Simplify Virtual Font Managementº A.V. ASTRELIN ªGraphic Algorithms: a Common-use ±Mondaya.m.± Libraryº

Encodings and Multilingual Support I A.S. BERDNIKOV,O.A.GRINEVA,andS.B.TURTIA ªSome Useful Macros to Extend LAT X's picture YANNIS HARALAMBOUS and JOHN PLAICE ªOmega E Environmentº and Cyrillic Alphabet Languages: a Synthesis of Available Resourcesº ± Wednesday p.m. ± RICHARD J. KINCH ªExtending TEX for Unicodeº Workshop on Electronic Documents V. A . K ONYSHEV,L.N.ZNAMENSKAYA,andS.V. MICHEL GOOSSENS ªLATEX to/from HTMLÐan ZNAMENSKII ªVarious Russian Encoding Problems Updateº and a New Cyrillic Font Setº SEBASTIAN RAHTZ ªLATEX, Hypertext and Acrobatº PETER A. OVCHENKOV ªCyrillic TEX Files: MICHEL GOOSSENS and SEBASTIAN RAHTZ Interplatform Portabilityº ªOverview of the Latest Developments in Electronic ALEXANDER I. ROZHENKO ªOn Cyrillic TEXand Publishing: HTML/SGML, DSSSL, Style Sheets, Multilingual Supportº Amber,Java, ...º ±Mondayp.m.± Bijlage K The 17th Annual TEX Users Group Meeting 29

JOACHIM SCHROD ªThe TDS File SystemÐA Short YANNIS HARALAMBOUS ªExtending Al-Amal to Introductionº Unicodeº ± Thursday a.m. ± 12:30 Formal Closing Ceremony of TUG '96 Encodings and Multilingual Support II 13:00 We will adjourn for an excursion on the Volga, with a farewell party M.M. VINOGRADOV ªA User-friendly Multi-function TEX-interface Based on MultiEditº ±Friday± YU.E.HOHLOV,S.V.KLIMENKO,E.V.PANKRATIEV, All Day Excursion to Moscow (packed lunch) and S.V. ZNAMENSKII ªThe New `Russian TEX' Projectº At the end of the day those not returning to Dubna to participate in courses can be left in the centre of OLGA LAPKO and IRINA MAKHOVAYA ªQuestions of Moscow or at the Airport. Babel and Cyrillic Compatibilityº ± Saturday/Sunday ± A. SLEPUHIN ªMethods of Multilingual Text Processingº To Be Announced Courses or workshops for those interested.