This page contains information about projects supported by UK-TUG.

TeX Gyre and TeX Works funded by UK TUG – April 2008

Following our call for project proposals for UKTUG support, we are pleased to announce that we have awarded partial financial support for two projects. We have awarded Jonathan Kew’s TeXWorks project £1600, and £3400 to the TeX Gyre project. These awards were made following positive feedback from UKTUG members after we circulated the project proposals.

The TeXWorks project is an effort to build a TEX front-end program (working environment) that will provide similar features to Dick Koch’s popular TEXShop but run on all today’s major desktop operating systems—in particular, Windows (XP and Vista), typical Linux distros, and other *nix/X11-based systems, in addition to Mac OS X. Jonathan Kew has contributed significantly to the XeTeX project and is a well know member of the TeX community. You can read an interview with him here.

The TeX Gyre project aims at remaking and extending of the freely available fonts distributed with Ghostscript. The important aspect of the project is providing not only the support for TeX but also the cross-platform OpenType format of the fonts. In particular the funding provided by UKTUG will be used to provide support for typesetting of advanced mathematics. This will require adding math glyphs and the respective metric information to the fonts, as well as research into how to implement TeX math in the Open Type Format and how to extend the capabilities of the TeX engines. You can read more at the TeX  Gyre home page.