ram@umb.umb.edu (Robert Morris) (09/11/87)
[please excuse if you've seen this twice. First time was obscurely refused and I never saw it on our news, so I >>assume<< it didn't go out] ProText IV 4th International Text Processing Conference and associated short courses Second Announcment 20-22 October, 1987 (short courses 19 October, 1987). Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, MA. Registration forms available in North America from Prof. Robert Morris Dept. of Math. and C.S. UMASS/Boston Boston, MA 02125 telephone 617-929-7976 (7960 if no answer) net mail: ram@umb.edu or ram%umb.edu@relay.cs.net or ram%umb.edu@csnet-relay.arpa or ...!harvard!umb!ram Outside North America from ProText IV, Conference Managment Services PO Box 5 Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin IRELAND telephone (+353-1) 613749 (or 611399 if no answer) ------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM Keynote speakers: J. Collins, Bitstream, "Digital Type Fonts for Text Processing Systems" R. Furuta, U of Maryland, "Tools that support multiple authors working simultaneously". S-C. Loh, Hong Kong, "Text Processing in Ideographic Languages" P. Mackay, U. of Washington, "An Editor for Multi-Lingual Texts" M. Nanard (CRIM, Montpelier), "Run Time Adaptive User Interface" L. Trabb-Pardo, Imagen, "The evolution of printing system architecture" X. Wang, Peking University, "Key Problems in Developing an Advanced Chinese Text Processing and Typesetting System" Contributed Lectures: W. Daelemans, Vrije Uni. Brussels, "Text Processing Systems with Linquistic Knowledge" L. Earnest, Stanford, "Making WYSIWYG characters shape up" J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "Spacing a line of music" W. Hegazy and J. Gourlay, Ohio State, "A document formatting model" D. Lucarella, Milan, "Best Match searching in document databases", D. Manson, I.P. Sharp, Toronto, "[..]TeX, PostScript and APL as Tools to Build Data Processing Systems". D. Mellinger (Stanford and Interleaf) and K. Nitchie (Interleaf), "Font Matching with Flexifonts" L. Price, Hewlitt Packard, "User reaction to an SGML Application" R. Sauvain, E. Wayman, Xerox, "Typefounder - A Collection of Digital Font Creation Tools" C. Smith, Berlin, "Beyond Document Structure, SGML as a Software Development Tool" J. Walker and R. Bryan, Symbolics, "An editor for structured technical documents" A number of poster papers and late papers which will not be in the proceedings will be available for discussion. Preceeding the Conference on October 19, the following short courses will be offered: A. Issues in Generalized Text Processing - Furuta, Mackay, Nanard, S. Loh B. TeX for Scientific Documentation - Bart Childs, with the TeX User's Group. C. An Introduction to SGML - W. Davis (IRS) D. Issues in Digital Typography - R. Rubinstein (DEC) E. Introduction to PostScript - Y. Perry (Adobe) ----------------- Early registration fees will apply to registrations received with payment before September 30. Conference rate at hotel available for reservations made directly with hotel before September 15. A list of Bed and Breakfast reservation services in the Boston area is available on request from Prof. Morris.