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by: Jonathan Fine - Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:57 UTC

I write to warmly invite you to a one hour online meeting on TeX in STEM, followed by an optional one-hour workshop. It will take place on Thursday 29 September at 6:30pm BST (UK time). Please forward this invitation to others if you wish. Here are the most important links:

Zoom URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/78551255396?pwd=cHdJN0pTTXRlRCtSd1lCTHpuWmNIUT09
UK time now: https://time.is/UK.

We are fortunate to have as main speakers Peter Williams, Dennis Müller and Martin Ruckert. All three have projects (Tectonic, sTeX and HINT) based on rethinking TeX for our changed times. All three have spoken on this at the annual TeX Conference organised by the TeX Users Group. For more information see:

https://texhour.github.io/2022/09/29/rethink-tex-in-stem/

The world has moved on since the 1990s (and the invention of the world-wide-web). Print and PDF no longer dominate as they did, even in the world of STEM publishing. Here's an example, which surprised me, of just how good HTML can be for heavily mathematical STEM content. Quality technical typography is no longer confined to print media (and its digital representation PDF):

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Lattices in Tate modules
Bjorn Poonena and Sergey Rybakov
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2113201118 # HTML
https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2113201118 # PDF

In late November or early December there will be another special TeX Hour, this time focussed on LaTeX and Accessibility. We're pleased that Jonathan Godfrey, a blind senior lecturer in Statistics and stalwart of the Blind Math list, will be one of our special guests. For more details see:
https://texhour.github.io/access/

with kind regards

Jonathan

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