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+\title{On the fringe of Boston}
+I confess that my enthusiasm for the TUG conference in
+Dedham was limited.
+In a hotel on the outskirts of Boston; no electronic
+access; height of the summer; Red Sox out of town;
+first four day meeting; first meeting with `one-day'
+tickets; major accent on the publishing fraternity --
+persons in suits. Oh dear. It turned out a whole lot
+better.
+
+The theme of this year's meeting was `Inroads into
+Publishing' and stemmed from a proposal made by Lance
+Carnes last year to try to arrange a meeting which would
+be strongly targetted towards the publishing industry.
+This was seen as part of a longer term policy to ensure
+the future of \TeX\ by promoting it to a wider audience.
+The first two days were more strongly oriented towards
+the traditional publishing business than the others. The
+conference proper started with a keynote address from Nico
+Poppelier from Elsevier. In general this was a good talk,
+but I found it singularly unfortunate at a forum where
+there was an attempt to convince and impress the
+conservative business world, that Nico should take time
+out to list his set of `needed changes' to \TeX. This
+theme, of `how shall we change \TeX' was one which was
+repeated again and again throughout the conference.
+There is undoubtedly a body of opinion which sees the need
+for change. However, as Mike Spivak's {\sl Contrarian
+View} shows, there are opposing views too.
+
+This meeting again took the pattern of `networking
+lunches'. The notion is that the lunch tables are labelled
+with various topics and you go to the table with your
+favourite topic. It is certainly a useful idea for a
+meeting at which many people may be new, and who whant to
+locate others with similar interests. An innovation this
+year was the introduction of panels. To
+my surprise it worked remarkably well. There were a few
+good opinionated panellists. Reverting to tradition,
+Personal \TeX\ provided the wine and cheese reception, but
+another innovation -- the wine didn't run out. I don't
+know if the parallel sessions were an innovation, but they
+were a pain. Memo to conference programmers: {\sc don't
+have parallel sesssions!}
+
+The other component were the workshops. I felt sorry for
+Chris Carruthers {\sl Interpreting \LaTeXsl\ Error
+Messages}, who had a group including Frank Mittelbach,
+who really ought to know enough not to make \LaTeX\
+errors.
+
+To hand out a few honours: probably the best function was
+the Clambake, sponsored by ArborText and Micro Programs
+-- all those lobsters! The best content -- Yannis
+Haralambous; the best panel -- historical roundtable. But
+I didn't get to everything.
+
+What about the bowling you will ask. Candle\-pin;
+ten pin, with very much smaller balls (no holes!) and an
+odd set of rules. But it was an interesting challenge. So
+in the end it all worked out quite well.\author{Malcolm