Hello, I am pleased to announce that I will give 2 talks at the next Tex Users Group conference, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, next October. Please find the abstracts below. TiCL: The prototype Last year, I presented some ideas about using one of the oldest programming language (Lisp), in order to modernize one of the oldest typesetting systems (TeX). This talk was mostly focused on justifying the technical fitness of Lisp for this task. This time, I would like to take the opposite view and demonstrate a prototype, from the user's perspective. This will involve showing what a TiCL document could look like, the implications in terms of typesetting vs. programmatic features, and also in terms of extensibility (relating this to package authoring). The incredible tale of the author who didn't want to do the publisher's job In this talk, I will relate a recent experience of mine: writing a book chapter for a publisher who doesn't have a clue about typesetting. I will confess my futile attempt at using TeX for writing the chapter in question. I will then describe the hell that descended upon me for daring to do that. I will however admit that the hell in question would have been even greater, had I not done so. I will give this talk both crying and laughing, and I will seek your comfort. -- Resistance is futile. You will be jazzimilated. Lisp, Jazz, Aïkido: http://www.didierverna.info