[Tugindia] TUGdelhi meet reminder

[S. venkataraman]

Hi,
I thought that a self contained topic that doesn't 
 extend beyond one session would be better. What would be ideal? A 
 crash course in Latex or a session explaining the 
 philosophy behind latex.

 Should we discuss some of the problems that confront the 
 future of latex? I think the most central issue 
 is how to adapt to the change in environment where everyone 
 is opting for Unicode encoding.  As of now, as far as I know,
 latex doesn't support Unicode. Omega(Lambda) does, but the 
 amount of accesible documentation on omega is very little.  What about 
 the availability of fonts? If someone could talk about these things
 it will be nice. Is it possible to use opentype fonts in latex? As 
 I understand it, this is supposed to be a superset of both type1 and 
 truetype standards. What is their encoding? Unicode?
 As far as I know none of the driver programmes like 
 xdvi or dvips seem to suppose these new fonts. Omega has Odvips, but
what 
 fonts does it support? Does it support opentype fonts? The issue
Unicode encoding 
 is also intimately connected to latex(lambda?) documents in indic
languages. 
 Switching over to Unicode will make it easier to produce documents in
Indic 
 languages.
 
 If somebody from the industry  who is addressing these issues can talk
about these, it will be nice. Linux Lingam could be one person. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amitabh Trehaan [mailto:amitabhtrehan at softhome.net] 
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 4:41 PM
> To: TUGIndia Mailing List
> Subject: [Tugindia] TUGdelhi meet reminder
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  I need inputs and confirmations from members in and around Delhi 
> willing to meet. 11th July, Sunday, 11AM(?), Sarai, Rajpur 
> Road, Delhi 
> (so that I can book the place). I am hopeful that a few 
> people who are 
> commercially using TeX in Delhi will also attend.
> 
> Amitabh
> 
Time is OK.
With best regards,
S. Venkataraman
Lecturer in Mathematics
School of Sciences
Indira Gandhi National University
Maidan Garhi 
New Delhi 110 068