Hi, for all of you who had not the opportunity to come to Berlin, here is a short summary of pdfTeX related talks. Till Tantau, the author of beamer, held a talk about TikZ (a frontend to pgf, the portable graphics format) which is a very powerful macro package to prepare inline graphics in latex/plain/context documents. Currently pgf does all calculations in tex, which is quite limited. He is looking forward to make use of LuaTeX in the future. He expects that trigonometric functions will be about hundred times faster then, and TikZ will be more powerful as it is today. Jonathan Kew gave an impressive demonstration of XeTeX. Though it runs on Mac OS/X systems at the moment only, he plans to port it to Linux and maybe Windows so that it can be part of TeXLive-2006. He said that both, XeTeX and pdfTeX, are moving targets at the moment, but he is thinking about merging them in the future. Yannis Haralambous held a talk with the title "Implementing OpenType and textemes into Omega". He already talked about it in Pont-a-Mousson, see: http://www.dante.de/dante/events/eurotex/papers/MOT02.pdf The good news is that he intends to present the pre-processor as a stand-alone program providing XML output at the EuroTeX 2006. Martin held a talk with the title "pdfTeX - gestern, heute, morgen" ("pdfTeX - yesterday, today, tomorrow") but I think there is no need to go into detail on this mailing list. Martin and Hartmut will hopefully tell you everything I forgot. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------