TUG Technical Working Groups

TUG has an autonomous Technical Council which oversees a number of working groups on areas of common interest to the TeX community. The Council has three members (current chair is Michael Ferguson, assisted by Yannis Haralambous and Sebastian Rahtz), who liaise with chair people of each working group. Each group establishes its own working methods and membership, and anyone interested in taking part should contact the chair. Suggestions for new groups should be addressed to Michael Ferguson (mike@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca).

A brief list of the active groups follows:

WG-92-00 (IRP-TWG)

Independent Research Project TWG.
To recognise and report to the TeX Board and the TeX Community on important projects which are independent of TUG but are of concern to the entire TeX Community.

Contact: Alan Hoenig (ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu)

WG-92-01

TeX Extended Mathematics Font Encoding.
To create font encoding standards for Mathematical fonts used in TeX systems.

Contact: Barbara Beeton (bnb@math.ams.org)

WG-92-03

Multiple Language Coordination.
The primary purpose of this working group is to obtain, for TeX systems, a consistent means for implementing, accessing, and describing, the fonts, ligature rules, hyphenation patterns and other special requirements for a given linguistic group.

Contact: Yannis Haralambous (Yannis.Haralambous@univ-lille1.fr)

WG-92-04

TeX for the Disabled.
The primary purpose of this working group is as a forum for those people interested in using and/or enhancing TeX to serve the needs of those with visual and other disabilities.

Contact: T.V. Raman (raman@adobe.com)

WG-92-05

TeX Archive Guidelines.
The purpose of this Technical Working Group is to develop guidelines for the effective management and utilisation of major TeX archives, and to initiate communication among the maintainers of the existing archives for the purpose of coordination and synchronisation.

Contact: Sebastian Rahtz (s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk)

WG-94-07

TeX Directory Structures.
The primary purpose of this TWG is to identify a universal directory structure for macros, fonts and other related TeX software so that recommendations can be made to all suppliers of TeX software.

The group's current set of proposals are to be found on CTAN at tds/draft-standard

Contact: Karl Berry (kb@cs.umb.edu)

WG-94-08

DVI Driver Implementation and Standardisation Issues.
The major objective shall be to study the issues in the requirements of DVI Drivers imposed by changing needs and technologies, and to make recommendations for implementation and standardisation of such drivers to enhance the uniformity of their use. Work will include, but not be limited to, the examination of the use, syntax, and semantics of \special{..} commands.

Contact: Michael Sofka (sofkam@rpi.edu)

WG-94-09

TeX and SGML.
The major objective is to investigate the requirements and difficulties in developing an interface technology for TeX and SGML.

Contact: Ken Dreyhaupt (kend@springer-ny.com)

WG-94-10

TeX and Linguistics.
The main goal is to study and discuss the requirements for typesetting linguistics in TeX and as a means of identifying, examining, testing, and comparing macros, fonts, style files and other aids for typesetting linguistics.

Contact: Christina Thiele (cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca)