Morning session
Introduction to LaTeX and its companion tools (hi res PDF)
Gianluca Pignalberi and Massimiliano Dominici
Who are we?
Claudio Beccari is an emeritus professor of Politecnico di Torino. He has been using LaTeX for more the 30 years; he wrote the first Italian book on LaTeX in 1992. He contributed several custom classes to some publishing houses. He wrote all his university texts using LaTeX. He contributed a dozen packages to CTAN, besides a little less than 1000 Greek fonts suitable for usage by Hellenists and everyday practice. He contributed approximately 20 articles to ArsTeXnica and has been directing it for six years.
Agostino De Marco is an Aeronautical Engineering graduate of the University of Naples Federico II and earned a PhD in Naval Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Department of Naval Engineering. He is currently assistant professor of Flight Mechanics at the University of Naples Federico II. He has been president of GuIT from 2014 to 2016, and he is now a member of the GuIT board.
Massimiliano Dominici deals with digital typography by profession; among other projects, he is currently in charge of the typesetting of the “Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Matematica di Francesco Maurolico”. A GuIT member since 2004, he has been director of ArsTeXnica magazine in 2006-2007 and president of GuIT from 2008 to 2010. He is the author of several articles on LaTeX, published in ArsTeXnica, TUGboat and PracTeX Journal.
Enrico Gregorio is associate professor of Algebra at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Verona. International key figure in the TeX and LaTeX world, he is a member of the LaTeX Project Team and has been president of the GuIT from 2011 to 2013.
Grazia Messineo is an assistant professor at the Department of Mathematical Disciplines, Mathematical Finance and Econometrics of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. She is active in the field of mathematics education.
Guido Milanese is a Classical Literature graduated from the University of Genoa. He is a full professor of Language and Latin literature at the Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and Foreign Literatures of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. He is a professor of Classical and European Culture, of Comparative and Humanistic Computer Literature at the campuses of Milan and Brescia. He is currently a member of the GuIT board.
Gianluca Pignalberi, degree in Computer Science at Sapienza, Università di Roma, published about 30 papers on LaTeX, at first in Dev (a no longer published magazine of the Infomedia publishing group) and then in ArsTeXnica. He has been providing professional typesetting and advisory services on LaTeX since 2004, when he programmed the class to typeset Free Software Magazine and typeset all of the printed numbers of it. He gave a LyX and LaTeX course to Menarini Farmaceutica. He proudly interviewed Donald Knuth and Frank Mittelbach. He’s currently the president of GuIT.
Afternoon session
14:30–16:00 Help Desk by volunteers of Gruppo Utilizzatori Italiani di TeX.
14:30 Creating accessible pdfs with LaTeX. U. Fischer.
15:00 Axessibility 2.0: creating tagged PDF documents with accessible formulae. D. Ahmetovic, T. Armano, C. Bernareggi, A. Capietto, S. Coriasco, B. Doubrov, A. Kozlovskiy and N. Murru.
15:30 Uno script bash di ausilio alla redazione di manoscritti. G. Pignalberi.
Track B
14:30 A Direct Bibliography Style for ArsTeXnica. J.-M. Hufflen.
15:00 Smartdiagram: The Package and Its Journey. C. Fiandrino.
15:30 Metamorfosi dei tipi sublacensi (hi res PDF). C. Vincoletto.
Registration
Attending the meeting is free of charge but you're strongly invited to subscribe filling the online registration form by October 20, 2019. Those who didn't succeed in registering are entitled to attend but your registration helps us organize at our best every side activity. Thank you for your collaboration.
Important dates
August 31, 2019: manuscript submission deadline
October 20, 2019: registration deadline
Locations, transport and accommodation
The GuITmeeting will be held at the Consiglio di Facoltà Hall, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24.
Please find detailed instructions on how to get there at the following address: http://www.det.polito.it/it/il_dipartimento/sede_e_contatti/trasporti
The Consiglio di Facoltà Hall is reachable from the Politecnico main entrance, crossing two subsequent internal courtyards. Alternatively, it's possible to enter the left entrance after crossing the first internal courtyard, then following the "odd classes (1-3-5)" corridor to arrive to the Hall.
The following address shows the location view from above: https://www.google.it/maps/place/Sala+Consiglio+di+Facolt%C3%A0/@45.0628719,7.6607243,171m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x47886dcbbf10cb75:0xbd6da9a555264e90!2sPolitecnico+di+Torino!8m2!3d45.0624847!4d7.6624561!3m4!1s0x47886d18469b31cb:0xcca2a335dde44f36!8m2!3d45.0628719!4d7.6612728
Those who need to spend the night in Turin may find useful information at http://www.det.polito.it/it/the_department/location_and_contacts/accommodation
