Hi everybody, an excellent year 2023 to all of you - I hesitate to say "it can only get better from 2022." That's what we thought last year, and boy were we wrong and did it get worse... Let's hope that this year will be more peaceful and less pandemic... But to my topic: the official announcement for TUG 2023 is out. It will be in Bonn, Germany, in a building literally (literally!) just across the street from my university office. So I feel somewhat motivated to go and give a talk on ConTeXt and spread the word. Since I'm a simple user and no developer, I'm a bit hesitant though: is any of the developers going (Hans?)? Since the public will be 99 % LaTeX-centric: I had the idea of showing (off) how ConTeXt can typeset xml and produce different outputs from the same source (similar to what I've done in Bassenge in 2019). Those of you who have been to TUG conferences before: would that be of interest even to people who know little to nothing about ConTeXt yet are familiar with other forms of TeX? I guess I just what to get a feeling what to expect at a TUG conference. All best wishes Thomas
Hi Thomas, Am 04.01.23 um 17:50 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context:
an excellent year 2023 to all of you...
The same to you!
is any of the developers going (Hans?)?
I’m not a dev but I’ll be there.
Since the public will be 99 % LaTeX-centric: I had the idea of showing (off) how ConTeXt can typeset xml and produce different outputs from the same source (similar to what I've done in Bassenge in 2019). Those of you who have been to TUG conferences before: would that be of interest even to people who know little to nothing about ConTeXt yet are familiar with other forms of TeX? I guess I just what to get a feeling what to expect at a TUG conference.
I’ve never been to a TUG conference, but it’s also a DANTE conference, and I wouldn’t hesitate to talk about ConTeXt – your example is a good one to get people interested, I think. I’ll probably show how I make our architectural guides for Bonn – I suggested to have a guided tour to one of the HICOG settlements (that were built for the American forces and their German employees) with the group that’s behind the guides (Werkstatt Baukultur Bonn). Since I’ll be there on company time (I’m now working for my former main customer), I’ll probably also help presenting our LaTeX3-based documentation workflow. Hraban
On 04/01/2023 16:50, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:
Hi everybody,
an excellent year 2023 to all of you - I hesitate to say "it can only get better from 2022." That's what we thought last year, and boy were we wrong and did it get worse... Let's hope that this year will be more peaceful and less pandemic...
But to my topic: the official announcement for TUG 2023 is out. It will be in Bonn, Germany, in a building literally (literally!) just across the street from my university office. So I feel somewhat motivated to go and give a talk on ConTeXt and spread the word. Since I'm a simple user and no developer, I'm a bit hesitant though: is any of the developers going (Hans?)? Since the public will be 99 % LaTeX-centric
I think you need not be afraid there: there will be a decent amount of generic stuff and a good number of plain TeX experts, I suspect. Yes, LaTeX tends to be the most popular TeX flavour in the talks, but I think overall it's much more varied than you are imagining! Joseph
On 1/4/2023 5:50 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context wrote:
Since I'm a simple user and no
Ha, you're not a simple user; you use all bits and pieces in advanced scenarios.
and no developer, I'm a bit hesitant though: is any of the developers going (Hans?)? Since the public will be 99 % LaTeX-centric: I had the
The only meeting in my agende is the ctx meeting later that year, so no plans. (Not knowing what to talk about at that meeting there would be little change of interference; we would likely end up sitting in your office discussing some pending inerestign and challenging mechanisms anyway -) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Am Wed, 4 Jan 2023 17:50:52 +0100 schrieb Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context:
But to my topic: the official announcement for TUG 2023 is out. It will be in Bonn, Germany, in a building literally (literally!) just across the street from my university office.
Interesting how near people can be ;-) I will have to go over the bridge ...
I guess I just what to get a feeling what to expect at a TUG conference.
You could look at previous TUG videos to get a feeling https://www.youtube.com/@TeXUsersGroup/playlists but imho you shouldn't worry. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 18:20:14 +0100
Hans Hagen via ntg-context
The only meeting in my agende is the ctx meeting later that year, so no plans.
The seventeenth ConTEXt meeting will take place in Prague–Sibřina, Czech Republic on September 10th–16th, 2023 Anyone who has not been to Sibřina is missing something! (I say with likely regret, not expecting to be able to attend.) Alan
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Alan Braslau -
Hans Hagen -
Henning Hraban Ramm -
Joseph Wright -
Thomas A. Schmitz -
Ulrike Fischer