TUG 2008 Call for Papers

The 2008 annual meeting of the TeX Users Group 
takes place in University College Cork, Ireland, 
on 21-24 July 2008.

Proposals for presentations and workshops are welcomed 
on any topic of interest to TeX users, including (but 
not limited to):

    * TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and related software
    * Typography and document design
    * Interfaces (editors and viewers)
    * Digital and electronic publishing
    * Mathematical and specialist typesetting
    * Presentation vs content
    * Web, media, and hypertext
    * Document structure and semantics
    * Educational technology and learning support systems

The official language of the conference is English. 
Details of this Call are at http://tug2008.ucc.ie/call


DATES

Closing date for abstracts          Wed  30 April 2008
Notification                        Thur 15 May 2008
Full paper for conference program   Sun  15 June 2008
Conference dates                    Mon  21 - Thur 24 July
Final version for TUGboat           Fri  15 August 2008
Workshops (by arrangement)          to be announced


SUBMISSION OF PAPERS FOR PRESENTATION

Abstracts for presentations must be submitted 
in one of the following formats:

    * LaTeX or AMS-LaTeX article (ltugproc document class
      (www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/tugboat/)
    * Plain TeX file
    * Plaintext file
    * Open Document Format (ODF, eg OpenOffice), WordML, OOXML, 
      or another common XML format

Please do not send proprietary binary documents like .doc files.

Please submit your Abstract by one of the following methods:

    * by email attachment to tug2008@udel.edu
    * by using the dropbox at http://www.udel.edu/dropbox 
      (give the email address tug2008@udel.edu)
    * by using the form provided at http://tug2008.ucc.ie/call

Abstracts will be reviewed by the Program Committee on the basis
of technical quality, originality, clarity and relevance. The
full version of accepted papers must follow TUG Proceedings
(ltugproc) guidelines (see http://tug.org/TUGboat/location.html
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings 
as a special issue of TUGboat.

At least one author of each paper must be registered and attend
the conference to present the paper.


SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

Proposals for workshops must be submitted to the conference
address (tug2008@udel.edu) in plaintext, plain TeX, or LaTeX
format only. Proposals should state the following:

    * Title of the workshop
    * Objectives
    * Synopsis of topics covered
    * Audience likely to attend
    * Duration
    * Names and details of presenters
    * Facilities required