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From: Behdad E. <be...@be...> - 2007-01-22 18:58:36
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An installation guid is now available for installing farsitex-1.0pre1 on teTeX-based Unix/Linux systems: http://farsitex.org/linux Hope this helps. -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-09-26 12:56:24
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I know that it would be unaffordable for almost everybody here, but per Wendy McKay's request I'm forwarding it here. roozbeh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:24:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Wendy McKay <wg...@cd...> To: tex...@tu... Cc: TUG 2003 <tu...@tu...> Subject: TUG 2003 conference news / Please Post TO: TeX Users Groups Worldwide FR: TUG 2003 Conference Organizers DT: September 25, 2002 Please would you share this announcement with all your TeX friends and colleagues, and the members of the TeX Users Group in your country. We hope that as many of you as possible (speakers and participants) will be able to come to the Big Island, Hawaii as representatives of your group to tell us how TeX is thriving in your part of the world, and to reflect together on the gift of TeX that has changed the lives, and the ways to earn a livelihood, for many of us. Don't miss this chance to share the joy of TeX with many friends in beautiful Hawaii. Mahalo! If you have received this announcement as a member of TUG and have already posted it to your group, we thank you. *~~~ PLEASE POST ~~~* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2003 July 20 - 24: Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUG 2003: SILVER ANNIVERSARY -- 25 YEARS! -- of TeX. Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island, Hawaii http://www.tug.org.in/tug2003/ tu...@tu... A grand reunion of TeX users worldwide is planned for the 24th Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX Users Group in 2003 for the Silver Anniversary -- 25 YEARS! -- of TeX. Professor Hermann Zapf and cartoon artist, Duane Bibby, will be just two of what we hope will be a long list of renowned guests and long-time friends of TeX, who will help us celebrate this wonderful event. We would like to make this a big gathering of the people who have played a role in providing you with tools, development, and support for TeX, which is the best free software available for beautiful typesetting and typography. All users of TeX (since its birth) are invited to participate as speaker, attendee, volunteer, sponsor, or donor to help make this conference a success. What You Can Do to Help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can contribute in several ways to the success of TUG 2003: 1) Come to the meeting and invite all your TeX friends to come along too. Register with the very early-lions *before the end of the year 2002* and no later than April 9, 2003, to benefit from special conference and accommodation rates. 2) Make a donation, (however large or small) as a token of appreciation for having TeX available to you as free software, and let your colleagues and your bosses know about this meeting so that they too can contribute towards the event, and to the future development of the TeX family of programs. TeX is very much alive and doing well both as a front-end for authors, and a back-end as a tool in the automated processes that provide easy conversion to XML, PDF, HTML. 3) Publishers, vendors, and other commercial users, developers, and distributors of products that use, or are prepared in, TeX (Plain, AmsTeX, AMSLaTeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, Metafont, MetaPost, ConTeXt, etc.) can sponsor or co- sponsor events (coffee breaks, lunches, reception, banquet) and most of all towards renowned plenary speakers and TUG 2003 as a whole. 4) The TeX Heritage Committee chaired by Sebastian Rahtz, will be organizing projects and happenings for the Silver Anniversary of TeX. One of these will be to publish a special volume of reflections by key developers and users of TeX. The book will be (temporarily) entitled: "TeX Retrospective: milestones and byways on the road to beautiful typography" More information will be published on the website at: http://www.tug.org/tug2003/heritage/ Note: Generous donors and sponsors ($500.00 or more) will receive a complimentary copy of the silver anniversary volume. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So start planning now to join us in Hawaii in body and/or in spirit for TUG 2003 on July 20 - 24, 2003. Don't forget to bring along your snorkel... Aloha! The TUG 2003 Organizers tu...@tu... http://www.tug.org/tug2003/ _______________________________________________ |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-09-17 10:21:44
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Following is the TUG bulleting about TeX conferences. The third one is about TUG 2002 in India. We've been mentioned (in a way ;)) in the last line of that section. roozbeh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 22:32:34 +0200 From: TUG 2003 Conference Committee <tu...@tu...> To: all...@tu... Subject: TUG conference news ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TeX BITS & BYTES: A Conference Newsletter Monday, September 9, 2002 Number 1/2002-09-09 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This is a brief newsletter on past, present, and future TeX Conference happenings by TeX User Groups Worldwide. CONTENTS 1 /// TUG 2001 Post Conference Bulletin Online 2 /// EuroBachoTeX 2002, Bachotek, Poland 3 /// TUG 2002, Thiruvananthapuran, India 4 /// EuroTeX 2003, Brest, France 5 /// TUG 2003 Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island, Hawaii ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1 /// 2001 August 12 - 16: Newark, Delware USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUG 2001 POST CONFERENCE BULLETIN ONLINE http://www.tug.org/tug2001/bulletin/ tu...@tu... The TUG 2001 Post-Conference Bulletin and Online Preprints for the 22nd Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX Users Group at the University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA on August 12 - 16, 2001, are available on the TUG website at: http://www.tug.org/tug2001/bulletin/ Two special TeX Lion Awards were made, to Han The Thanh in recognition for his most valuable contribution of pdfTeX to the community, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Anita Schwartz, University of Delaware, for 15 years of volunteer service to TUG. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2 /// 2002 April 29 - May 3: EuroBachoTex, Poland ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TeX AND BEYOND http://www.gust.org.pl/EuroBachoTex/ Eur...@gu... The 13th European and 10th Polish TeX Conference, EuroBachoTeX 2002 was held on April 29 - May 3, 2002 at Bachotek (Brodnica Lake District), Poland. The theme of the conference was "TeX and Beyond". Bachotek is situated in a very beautiful part of Poland and having all the participants stay at the same resort added a special feeling of camaraderie during the gatherings around the campfire to sing songs and to network with colleagues. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 /// 2002 September 4 - 7: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUG 2002: STAND UP AND BE PROUD OF TeX TechnoPark Conference Center http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/ tu...@tu... As we write this, more than 70 participants from 11 countries have gathered in Trivandrum to "Stand Up and be Proud of TeX" at TUG 2002. The 23rd Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX Users Group is taking place now at the TechnoPark Conference Center, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. This conference was organized by the Indian TeX Users Group, spearheaded by C. V. Radhakrishnan of Focal Image (India) Pvt. Ltd., Trivandrum, and was co-sponsored by very generous donations from the Department of Information Technology, Government of Kerala, and TechnoPark Karyavattom, Trivandrum, India. The opening took place at 9 A.M. on Wednesday September 4. Participants getting off the conference bus were startled and delighted to be greeted by a ceremonial elephant and his mahout and the roar of Indian drums and trumpets. Newspaper reports of this TUG event, appeared in the Business Express section of the local Kerala newspaper, The New Indian Express and in the national paper, The Hindu. Copies of the report will be posted at: http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/ Foreign participants are staying at the Hotel Samudra, Kovalam Beach. The reception and banquet were held here in the garden outdoors under the milky way, beneath swaying coconut palms, and to background music of the breaking ocean waves on the beach. Local entertainment was provided by martial artists, beautiful young Indian dancers from the Shri Chitra Home (for orphans), and an Indian Bamboo flautist, V.C. George. The hospitality and friendliness of the Indian people made everyone feel welcome and participants were treated to a feast of Indian spicy dishes every day. Interesting papers were presented on current developments in the TeX world, including ConTeXt, Fonts, MathML, Metapost, XML, and the status of typsetting in Middle Eastern and Asian languages. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 4 /// 2003 June 24 - 27: EuroTeX 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ BACK TO TYPOGRAPHY ENST Bretagne - Brest, France http://omega.enstb.org/eurotex2002/ sy...@en... In 2003, the EuroTEX will be organized in Brest (Brittany, France), by ENST de Bretagne. The theme of this conference covers the electronic document, digital typography, typographical heritage and its survival in the computer era, new technologies applied to education, book production process, fonts, document internationalization and exchange, etc. Talks will be held in English or any other European language. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the TUGboat journal, before the fall of 2003. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 5 /// 2003 July 20 - 24: Waikoloa, Big Island, Hawaii USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TUG 2003: SILVER ANNIVERSARY -- 25 YEARS! -- of TeX. Outrigger Waikoloa Beach Resort, Big Island, Hawaii http://www.tug.org.in/tug2003/ tu...@tu... A grand reunion of TeX users worldwide is planned for the 24th Annual Meeting and Conference of the TeX Users Group in 2003 for the Silver Anniversary -- 25 YEARS! -- of TeX. Professor Hermann Zapf and cartoon artist, Duane Bibby, will be just two of what we hope will be a long list of renowned guests and long-time friends of TeX, who will help us celebrate this wonderful event. We would like to make this a big gathering of the people who have played a role in providing you with tools, development, and support for TeX, which is the best free software available for beautiful typesetting and typography. All users of TeX (since its birth) are invited to participate as speaker, attendee, volunteer, sponsor, or donor to help make this conference a success. What You Can Do to Help! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You can contribute in several ways to the success of TUG 2003: 1) Come to the meeting and invite all your TeX friends to come along too. Register with the very early-lions *before the end of the year 2002* and no later than April 9, 2003, to benefit from special conference and accommodation rates. 2) Make a donation, (however large or small) as a token of appreciation for having TeX available to you as free software, and let your colleagues and your bosses know about this meeting so that they too can contribute towards the event, and to the future development of the TeX family of programs. TeX is very much alive and doing well both as a front-end for authors, and a back-end as a tool in the automated processes that provide easy conversion to XML, PDF, HTML. 3) Publishers, vendors, and other commercial users, developers, and distributors of products that use, or are prepared in, TeX (Plain, AmsTeX, AMSLaTeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, Metafont, MetaPost, ConTeXt, etc.) can sponsor or co- sponsor events (coffee breaks, lunches, reception, banquet) and most of all towards renowned plenary speakers and TUG 2003 as a whole. 4) The TeX Heritage Committee chaired by Sebastian Rahtz, will be organizing projects and happenings for the Silver Anniversary of TeX. One of these will be to publish a special volume of reflections by key developers and users of TeX. The book will be (temporarily) entitled: "TeX Retrospective: milestones and byways on the road to beautiful typography" More information will be published on the website at: http://www.tug.org/tug2003/heritage/ Note: Generous donors and sponsors ($500.00 or more) will receive a complimentary copy of the silver anniversary volume. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So start planning now to join us in Hawaii in body and/or in spirit for TUG 2003 on July 20 - 24, 2003. Don't forget to bring along your snorkel... Aloha! The TUG 2003 Organizers tu...@tu... http://www.tug.org/tug2003/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-09-16 15:18:35
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Hi everybody! Behdad and me are back from the 23rd TUG Annual Meeting in India, and we had very successful presentations. As promised, the preprints (to appear in TUGboat) and slides are available in PDF format from the following addresses: http://www.farsitex.org/tug2002/ftexpaper.pdf http://www.farsitex.org/tug2002/ftexslides.pdf http://www.farsitex.org/tug2002/unicodepaper.pdf http://www.farsitex.org/tug2002/unicodeslides.pdf We wish to thank our sponsors, Science and Arts Foundation, Sharif University of Technology, Focal Image Ltd, Young Scholars Club, and Reza Sadr for their support, and also Dr Yahya Tabesh and Kaveh Bazargan, who were supportive at the extreme and also very tolerant with us. We hope that we have not been abusing their kindness. Thanks everybody! Roozbeh |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-08-02 22:22:01
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Dear FarsiTeX friends and supporters, If all goes well, The FarsiTeX team will be presenting two papers in the forthcoming TeX Users Group meeting early this September at Trivandrum, India. The papers are titled "Unicode: The Moving Target" and "FarsiTeX and the Iranian TeX community". The presentations will be made by me and Behdad Esfahbod. (We will post the papers online after we presented them.) I wanted to inform you about the meeting being the first such one in Asia, which may be a good opportunity for attending a TeX meeting. So consider that if you are still interested in TeX. The workshops specially look interesting. The meeting information is available at: http://www.tug.org.in/tug2002/ I also wish to ask for your help in funding the trip. Kaveh Bazargan and Focal Image Ltd have already offered to help us by providing the accommodation, but we are still having trouble financing airplane tickets, conference registration fees, and other similir expenses. If you can help us in this, please contact me at the email address <ro...@sh...>. Even small donations from people in Iran will help us greatly in this trip which may otherwise need to be personally financed, somehow a disaster for people living on a budget like ours. Roozbeh Pournader, Technical Manager, the FarsiTeX Project Team -- Roozbeh Pournader | Sometimes I forget to reply to emails. Sharif University of Technology | Some other times I don't find the time. roozbeh <at> sharif <dot> edu | So kindly remind me if it's important, http://sina.sharif.edu/~roozbeh | and use other methods if it's urgent. |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-06-06 22:03:18
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For your information. (BTW, I already have the CD. If anyone residing in Tehran wants a copy, please email me personally so we can arrange a mechanism.) roozbeh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:03:23 +0200 From: TUG Office <tug...@tu...> To: tex...@tu... Cc: tex...@tu... Subject: [tex-live] TeX Live 7 available for ordering TeX Live 7 (2-CD set) is almost ready! CD-1 has a runnable system for Linux (Intel platforms), Mac OS X, and Windows 32 (Windows NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP) systems. GNU Ghostscript 7.05 and Gnu Emacs for Windows included, along with many other useful utilities. CD-2 has a runnable system for Alpha Linux, Irix, AIX, Solaris, and Alpha OSF. The TeX Users Group has once again arranged with Sebastian Rahtz, the editor of the TeX Live CD-ROM, to act as a distributor of TeX Live 7, the 2002 release of TeX Live. In doing so, TUG aims to support Sebastian and many others' efforts in creating this CD and to provide it at nominal cost to TeX users worldwide. Great care has been taken to ensure that the TeX Live 7 CD contains only software without restrictions on usage or redistribution. Specifically, all of TeX Live is compliant with the "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (http://www.debian.org/intro/free), to the best of our knowledge. TeX Live 7 contains full sources for all programs and packages for those who wish to see how it was put together or experiment with modifications. The manufacturing date for TL7 is June, 2002. As always, we will mail the CD's to you immediately after pressing. We can offer TeX Live 7 to your user group for US $1.00 per set. Due to the higher cost of duplicating two CD's this year, TUG will absorb the shipping cost, up to an order of 1000 sets. If the price is infeasible for your group, or if you wish to order more than 1000 sets, please contact us and we'll make a mutually agreeable arrangement with you on a case-by-case basis. Please respond to of...@tu... as soon as possible with your desired quantity, even if that quantity is zero. Thanks, and, happy TeX'ing! TeX Users Group Please reply to: of...@tu... _______________________________________________ tex-live mailing list tex...@tu... http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-live |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2002-05-22 15:23:56
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Dear friend and supporter, We finally sat down and compiled a big list of the books we, the members of the FarsiTeX and FarsiWeb Project Teams, need. It would be very kind of you if you consider contributing to our projects by buying us a book or two, specially since it's very hard to buy these books from Iran, and since we are on a very limited budget. The details are available at: http://www.farsiweb.info/books.html We will need some of these books in order to be able to continue our public efforts efficiently. Some others, like ones at the end of the list, will just help raising the morale of the group. :-) Please accept my apologies if you received more than one copy of this email message. Best Regards, Roozbeh Pournader Technical Manager, The FarsiTeX Project (http://www.farsitex.org/) Technical Manager, The FarsiWeb Project (http://www.farsiweb.info/) |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2001-12-03 09:11:16
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Following is what I just received from a team working on a Persian LyX (read: a somehow WYSIWYG TeX editor). roozbeh ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 06:53:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Amir Seyyedi <gar...@ya...> Reply-To: far...@li... To: LinuxIran <lin...@li...>, FarsiWeb <far...@li...>, FarsiKDE <far...@li...> Subject: [farsiweb] persian LYX http://ill.iut.ac.ir/~lyxteam/ |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2001-06-06 16:23:26
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This is not related to FarsiTeX, but since many people here may be users of Windows 2000's Farsi support, I thought this will be interesting for them. Sorry for the inconvenience. --roozbeh We have just finished fixing Windows 2000's Farsi keyboard, changing it to the standard Persian keyboard layout (ISIRI 2901). We have provided a mini-HOWTO at: http://developer.sharif.ac.ir/farsiweb/howto/win2keyb/ Please notify all possible users of Farsi on Windows 2000 platform about this fix. This is really important for easy Farsi data entry, in our belief. The fixed version solves many of the annoying problems of Windows 2000 keyboard: 1. It has Persian digits instead of Latin ones. 2. Shift-space now works for words with pseudo space, like "khaane-haa". 3. Brackets, guillemets, etc work correctly in right-to-left context. 4. Persian comma ("virgool") is on shift-7 like all Persian keyboards. . . . Roozbeh Pournader, The FarsiWeb Project Group |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2001-05-24 22:06:00
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Dear friends, You have heard that FarsiTeX is free software, under the GNU General Public License (GPL). But what does that mean, and are you allowed to do with FarsiTeX? Well, a very good FAQ is available at: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-faq.html --roozbeh |
From: FarsiTeX P. W. <be...@us...> - 2001-03-14 15:14:53
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Dear FarsiTeXers, The new FarsiTeX homepage is almost ready at http://www.farsitex.org/ Many options are disabled now or redirect you to the sourceforge page. Let me know your opinions. --Behdad |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2001-03-08 12:05:26
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Dear friends, As I had announced, FarsiTeX mailing lists structure has changed. All of "ftex-list" members are now subscribers of the "farsitex-announce" mailing list which is for FarsiTeX announcements, and only members of the FarsiTeX Project Team can post to. You should have received an automatic message about your subscription. If you are not interested in FarsiTeX anymore, please unsubscribe at the address given in that message (or send a message to me asking to unsubscribe you), and we are sorry for the inconvenience. If you are also interested in FarsiTeX discussion, or you have usage questions to ask, or have some time to help others, please subscribe to the related mailing lists, which are * farsitex-user: Usage and technical questions * farsitex-disc: General Discussion You can subscribe at: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=7710 After a transition time of one week, all messages to the "ftex-list" will be automatically forwarded to "farsitex-user". --Roozbeh Pournader, for the FarsiTeX Project Team. |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2001-02-13 11:47:27
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Dear all, FarsiTeX Windows editor, version 1.0-alpha-2, is now available. You can get it from: http://download.sourceforge.net/farsitex/farsitex-editor-1.0-alpha-2.zip or ftp://ftp.sharif.ac.ir/pub/farsitex/alpha/farsitex-editor-1.0-alpha-2.zip We really need bugs, and suggestions. So please get it and play with it (always make a backup of your files, so the editor won't corrupt them). --roozbeh |
From: Roozbeh P. <ro...@sh...> - 2000-12-23 01:06:04
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This is for testing purposes only. |