AATSEEL preliminary conference program on the web

[David J Birnbaum]

Dear SEELANGers,

The AATSEEL Preliminary Conference Program (complete with all abstracts) is
now on the web at:

  http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/aatseel/1999/

The October AATSEEL Newsletter has gone to press, and it will contain a
printed version of the Preliminary Conference Program. The web files are
more up-to-date; they include a small number of changes that were
introduced after the Newsletter went to press. We have had to move a couple
of panels, but in all such cases we have notified all the affected
panelists directly. This means that you can rely on the times in the
Newsletter unless you have been notified personally to the contrary.

Please note that there are two versions of the program on the web site:

1. Basic HTML: This version should be legible to all users of all browsers
on all operating systems, but the Cyrillic is transliterated in a mixed
LC/scholarly way and non-western-European diacritics are stripped.

2. Unicode HTML: This version requires Unicode support in your operating
system and browser, as well as a Unicode font (see the links to free
Unicode fonts on the page). Currently Unicode support is available in
Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer for Microsoft Windows (95, 98,
NT). I was not able to get Unicode support to work under MacOS with either
Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer, although preliminary tests with
MacOS 9 (scheduled for release 1999-10-23) are promising.

The information on both versions is identical. The only differences involve
transliteration.

Authors are encouraged to proofread their abstracts. If you do not have
Unicode support, you might also want to check the "source" file listed in
parentheses after your title. The source file contains information that is
neutralized when the HTML is generated; for example, the source file
distinguishes "c with hachek" (representing Cyrillic "ch") from plain ol'
English "ch". The source file notation isn't particularly legible, but it
ensures that characters with diacritics will be handled properly both on
the web and in the printed program book.

If the Program Committee has introduced any errors into your abstracts,
please let me know as soon as possible and we will fix them. Because we
need to get the printed program to press in a timely fashion, we cannot
make any changes to abstracts except to correct errors for which the
Program Committee is responsible.

Looking forward to seeing you all in Chicago!

Cheers,

David
Chair, AATSEEL Program Committee
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Professor David J. Birnbaum
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
1417 Cathedral of Learning
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
Voice: 1 412 624 5712
Fax: 1 412 624 9714
Email: djb at clover.slavic.pitt.edu
URL: http://clover.slavic.pitt.edu/~djb/