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ATypI TypeTech Forum Schedule

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Wednesday, September 27, 2006 -- Day 1
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Track 1: TypeTech

10:00
Thomas Phinney, TypeTech Welcome

10:15
Jürgen Willrodt, Status of OpenType support 2006

11:45 -- Break

12:00
Sergey Malkin, New tech for math fonts & typesetting

12:45
Tim Ahrens, Advanced MM applications

13:30 -- Lunch

14:30
Thomas Phinney, Advanced MM theory

15:00
Thomas Phinney, Is lying OK?

15:30
V. Gaultney, P. K. Martin, Gathering script information as a collaborative community

16:15
Jürgen Willrodt, URW++’s new OpenType table editor

16:45
Frank Blokland
Automating font production using DTL Fontmaster

17:30
Jürgen Willrodt
How DTL FontMaster automatically produces OpenType layout features

Track 2: FontLab

10:00
Ted Harrison
Introduction to the Fontlab Ltd. product family

10:15
Yuri Yarmola, Adam Twardoch
Draw like the Devil: Designing glyphs in FLS5

11:45 -- Break

12:00
Yuri Yarmola
Hint like Hercules: Font screen quality in FLS5

12:45
Adam Twardoch
Encode like the Emperor: FLS5 Glyph Naming and Encoding

13:30 -- Lunch

14:30
Adam Twardoch
OpenTypify like Odysseus: OT Layout features in FLS5

15:15
Yuri Yarmola, Adam Twardoch
Trick like a Tsar: Advanced design techniques in FLS5

16:15
Yuri Yarmola
Kern like the King: FLS5 Metrics Window

17:00
Adam Twardoch
Manufacture like Mozart: Font production in FLS5

Day 1: TypeTech ends at 18:00

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Thursday, September 28, 2006 -- Day 2
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Track 1: TypeTech

10:00
Ted Harrison
The ubiquitous EULA

10:30
John Hudson
OpenType vertical metrics revisited: new in OT 1.5

11:15
R. K. Joshi
From degree to 5-tier Vedic Sanskrit

11:45 -- Break

12:00
To be announced
CSS font families

12:45
Adam Twardoch
Taming tables

13:30 -- Lunch

14:30
Y. Yarmola, A. Twardoch
AsiaFont Studio 5: the XXL font editor

15:15
Miguel Sousa
Adventures in class kerning

16:00
Break

16:15
Ben Kiel
Python scripting tutorial

Track 2: DTL FontMaster

10:00
Dr. Jürgen Willrodt (URW++)
Producing large and complex OpenType fonts

11:00
Christopher Slye (Adobe Systems Incorporated)
The OpenType layout features file:
Structure and editing

11:45 -- Break

12:00
MS Volt: Generation and enhancement of OT layout features
Sergey Malkin (Microsoft)

13:00
Frank E. Blokland
DTL FontMaster 2.5 & further developments

13:30 -- Lunch

14:30
Dr. Jürgen Willrodt
The automatic production of ot layout features in FM: How it works

15:15 [Workshop]
Frank E. Blokland
Digitizing techniques:
The revival of manual digitizing

16:00 -- Break

16:15 [Workshop]
Dr. Jürgen Willrodt
Editing Features files and Character layout files

16:45 [Workshop]
Frank E. Blokland
Workflow organizing / automating production

Day 2: TypeTech ends at 17:15