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[Tex2002ans]

People in this topic may be interested in a talk being given on July 24th, 2020:

"Typographical expression of emotions in a variety of alphabet systems" (Jennifer Claudio)

https://www.tug.org/tug2020/program.html

(TUG is the annual LaTeX conference. This year's is going to be fully free + online, and they'll also post the videos at a later date.)

Here's the summary:

Fri, 24 Jul – 14:30 PM | Jennifer Claudio, Typographical expression of emotions in a variety of alphabet systems

Contemporary writing often uses stylistic elements to emphasize words, and in a world of social medias and text messaging, it has potentially become easier to change the shapes or capitalization of a letter rather than using an alternative word with strength of connotation. This convenience lends itself to the nature of the Latin alphabet (or other alphabets with distinct capitalization), but is not a method that occurs in alphabet systems without capital letters. This presentation explores the use of a variety of type attributes including color, typeface, and size which are used to convey emotional charge in a selection of languages including English, Cyrillic, Korean, Arabic, Bangla, as well as the typographic advantages and drawbacks therein.

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I think it's going to be great, and a few other cool MR people are already on board. I'll try to make it live, but if not, I'll be watching all the talks and writing summaries at a future date (for my blog).

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

People in this topic may be interested in a talk being given on July 24th, 2020:

Sounds interesting. I'll try to make it if I can. What timezone is it in? You say 14:30pm and the website says 19:30pm.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Tex2002ans

People in this topic may be interested in a talk being given on July 24th, 2020:

"Typographical expression of emotions in a variety of alphabet systems" (Jennifer Claudio)

https://www.tug.org/tug2020/program.html

(TUG is the annual LaTeX conference. This year's is going to be fully free + online, and they'll also post the videos at a later date.)

Here's the summary:

Fri, 24 Jul – 14:30 PM | Jennifer Claudio, Typographical expression of emotions in a variety of alphabet systems

Contemporary writing often uses stylistic elements to emphasize words, and in a world of social medias and text messaging, it has potentially become easier to change the shapes or capitalization of a letter rather than using an alternative word with strength of connotation. This convenience lends itself to the nature of the Latin alphabet (or other alphabets with distinct capitalization), but is not a method that occurs in alphabet systems without capital letters. This presentation explores the use of a variety of type attributes including color, typeface, and size which are used to convey emotional charge in a selection of languages including English, Cyrillic, Korean, Arabic, Bangla, as well as the typographic advantages and drawbacks therein.

* * *

I think it's going to be great, and a few other cool MR people are already on board. I'll try to make it live, but if not, I'll be watching all the talks and writing summaries at a future date (for my blog).

I can't seem to find that in the list of sessions. The closest one reads:

Fri, 24 Jul - 11:30AM | Jennifer Claudio, Typographical explorations in two unicase alphabets

We take for granted the convenience of expressing emotions in typography for Latin-based writing, such as using capital letters. This submission explores the use of a variety of type attributes including color, typeface, size, and distortion as it is used to convey emotional charge in Hangul (Korean) and Arabic writing.

(Time zone is America/Vancouver).

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

What timezone is it in?

Unsure. Assuming UTC-7 (Vancouver), since that's what the HTML datetime states:

datetime="2020-07-24T11:30:00-07:00"

So that'll be 11:30AM UTC-7.

Here's a little more details about the conference overall:

https://www.tug.org/tug2020/

It'll be held over Zoom.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You say 14:30pm and the website says 19:30pm.

Looks like that schedule auto-updates based on your timezone.

Originally Posted by DNSB

I can't seem to find that in the list of sessions. The closest one reads:

Thanks for finding that.

Yep, this looks to be the latest title/description. The info I pasted was about a week out of date.

Looks like the talk's scope is scaled back quite a bit, but should still hopefully still be interesting.

And heck, could always contact the presenter and get more detailed info. I'd be very interested in seeing all that other e m p h a s i s research.