TUGBOAT Volume 26, Number 2 / 2005 TUG 2005 Conference Proceedings 106 Conference program, delegates, and sponsors 108 Robin Laakso / Highlights from TUG 2005 110 Conference photos Keynote 111 Wai Wong / Typesetting Chinese: A personal perspective Talks 115 Jonathan Kew / X TE EX, the Multilingual Lion: TEX meets Unicode and smart font technologies 125 Javier Rodr´ıguez Laguna / H´ong-Z`ı: A Chinese METAFONT 129 Candy L. K. Yiu and Jim Binkley / Qin notation generator 135 Nandan Bagchee and Eitan M. Gurari / SwiExr: Spatial math exercises and worksheets, in Braille and print 142 Philip Taylor / Typesetting the Byzantine Cappelli 152 Hans Hagen / LuaTEX: Howling to the moon 158 Karel P´ıˇska / Converting METAFONT sources to outline fonts using METAPOST 165 S. K. Venkatesan / Moving from bytes to words to semantics 169 Abstracts (Beebe, Cho, H¨oppner, Hong, Rowley, Taylor) News 170 Calendar 174 TEX Collection 2005 ( TEX Live, proTEXt, MacTEX, CTAN) 175 EuroTEX 2006 announcement 176 TUG 2006 announcement TUG Business 172 TUG membership form 173 Institutional members Advertisements 173 TEX consulting and production services Index c3 Table of contents, ordered by difficulty TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. Karl Berry, President Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions David Walden∗, Treasurer 2005 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt∗, Secretary Ordinary members: $75. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $45. Lance Carnes The discounted rate of $45 is also available to Steve Grathwohl citizens of countries with modest economies, as Jim Hefferon detailed on our web site. 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[printing date: November 2005] The Communications of the TEX Users Group Volume 26, Number 2, 2005 TUG 2005 Conference Proceedings TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. Karl Berry, President Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions David Walden∗, Treasurer 2005 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt∗, Secretary Ordinary members: $75. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $45. Lance Carnes The discounted rate of $45 is also available to Steve Grathwohl citizens of countries with modest economies, as Jim Hefferon detailed on our web site. Klaus H¨oppner Membership in the TEX Users Group is for the Ross Moore calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Arthur Ogawa for the year in which membership begins or is Gerree Pecht renewed, as well as software distributions and other Steve Peter benefits. Individual membership is open only to Cheryl Ponchin named individuals, and carries with it such rights Samuel Rhoads and responsibilities as voting in TUG elections. For Philip Taylor membership information, visit the TUG web site: Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director † http://www.tug.org. Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts † TUGboat subscriptions are available to organi- ∗member of executive committee zations and others wishing to receive TUGboat in a †honorary name other than that of an individual. Subscription rates: $85 a year, including air mail delivery. Addresses Electronic Mail General correspondence, (Internet) Institutional Membership payments, etc. General correspondence, Institutional Membership is a means of showing TEX Users Group membership, subscriptions: P. O. Box 2311 continuing interest in and support for both TEX [email protected] Portland, OR 97208-2311 and the TEX Users Group. For further information, contact the TUG office ([email protected]) or see U.S.A. Submissions to TUGboat, our web site. Delivery services, letters to the Editor: parcels, visitors [email protected] TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical TEX Users Group Society. 1466 NW Naito Parkway Technical support for Suite 3141 TEX users: Portland, OR 97209-2820 [email protected] Copyright c 2005 TEX Users Group. U.S.A. Copyright to individual articles within this publication remains with their authors, and may not be reproduced, Contact the Board distributed or translated without their permission. Telephone of Directors: For the editorial and other material not ascribed to +1 503 223-9994 [email protected] a particular author, permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies without royalty, in any medium, Fax provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +1 503 223-3960 preserved. Permission is also granted to make, copy and distribute World Wide Web translations of such editorial material into another language, http://www.tug.org/ except that the TEX Users Group must approve translations of this permission notice itself. Lacking such approval, the http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/ original English permission notice must be included. Printed in U.S.A. Problems not resolved? The TUG Board wants to hear from you: Please email [email protected]. [printing date: November 2005] TUG 2005 Proceedings Wuhan, China August 23–25, 2005 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP TUGBOAT EDITOR BARBARA BEETON PROCEEDINGS EDITOR KARL BERRY VOLUME 26, NUMBER 2 • 2005 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUG 2005 International Typesetting Conference Sponsors Chinese TEX User Group TEX Users Group DANTE e.V. Acknowledgements With great appreciation to all the speakers and teachers, and special thanks to: Wai Wong, for agreeing to be the keynote speaker. Duane Bibby, for the traditionally excellent drawings. Conference committee Karl Berry Chen HaiBin Gu XiongZhi Hong Chan Hong Feng Hu WeiMing Robin Laakso Liu Hao Peng ZiQiang Wan Lin Wu ZhenHua Xu JiZhe Yao WeiZhen Zhang YuanLin International participants Le Khanh Au Duong, HM Revenue & Customs Jerzy Ludwichowski, Nicolaus Copernicus Nelson Beebe, University of Utah University & GUST Jin-Hwan Cho, University of Suwon Ross Moore, Macquarie University & TUG Steve Grathwohl, Duke University Press & TUG Karel P´ıˇska, Czech Academy of Sciences Guo Liang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy Arthur Reutenauer, France of Science, Beijing Chris Rowley, Open University & LATEX3 Project Eitan Gurari, Ohio State University Volker R.W. Schaa, DANTE e.V. Hans Hagen, Pragma ADE & NTG Karel Skoup´y, Zurich, Switzerland Hartmut Henkel, von Hoerner & Sulger GmbH Philip Taylor, University of London & TUG Klaus H¨oppner, DANTE e.V. & TUG S. K. Venkatesan, TnQ Books and Journals Maik K¨undig, Fallenden, Switzerland Kevin Warnock, Silveroffice, Inc. Jonathan Kew, SIL International Wai Wong, Chinese University of Hong Kong Richard Kinch, TrueTEX, Inc. Candy Yiu, Portland State University Robin Laakso, TEX Users Group Sam Zoghaib, France Local participants Chen Haibin Wang JiaHui Hong Feng Wu Xuemou Liu Hao Wu Zhenhua Lu Ming Yao Weizhen Meng Yan Zhu Xiang Peng ZiQiang TUG 2005 — program and information Monday 8–9 am registration August 22 9 am Hong Feng TEX as a compiler (tutorials) 10:30 am break 10:45 am Ross Moore LATEX to HTML conversion 12 pm lunch 1:30 pm Chris Rowley LATEX for beginners