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+%% This file contains all materials for TTN 1,1 (1992).
+%%
+%% IMPORTANT NOTICE: You *MUST* use version 1.1 of the tugnews.sty
+%% file, dated Jan 1992. There are sufficient
+%% differences between the prototype version
+%% this one to require the new sty.file. This cannot
+%% be avoided, as the newsletter upgrades its
+%% appearance. (Ch. Thiele, Editor, TTN).
+%%
+
+\documentstyle[twoside]{ttn1n1} %% Version 1.1, Jan 1992
+% fix for underfull hboxes suggested by Phil Taylor---cjc, 1992.2.27
+\tolerance = 1817 \hbadness = \tolerance
+%
+% inserted by rf when building pdfs
+\font\tenmi=cmmi10 % used but not defined
+\begin{document}
+
+%% Cover 1 (outside front): to be done separately
+
+%% COVER 2 (editorial information):
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\begin{center}
+ {\Sectionfont\TeX{} and TUG NEWS}
+\end{center}
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\begin{center} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
+ \begin{tabular}{||lp{9.5cm}||}
+ \multicolumn{2}{c}{\large\bf Mission Statement} \\ [6pt]
+ \hline
+ \multicolumn{2}{||l||}{The \TUG\ (TUG) provides leadership:} \\
+ 1. & to encourage and expand the use of \TeX, \MF, and related
+ systems \\
+ 2. & to ensure the integrity and portability of \TeX, \MF, and
+ related systems \\
+ 3. & to foster innovation in high-quality electronic document
+ preparation \\
+ \hline
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\noindent \TTN\ is a newsletter for \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ users alike: {\em
+a forum for exchanging information, tips and suggestions\/}; {\em a
+regular means of communicating news items to one another\/}; {\em a
+place where information about \TeX{} and TUG can be quickly
+disseminated}.
+
+\vspace{.25pc}
+
+Throughout the newsletter ``\TeX'' is understood to mean \TeX, \LaTeX,
+\AmSTeX, and other related programs and macros. \TTN\ is produced with
+the standard \LaTeX{} distribution, and is to be as portable a document
+as possible.
+
+\vspace{.25pc}
+
+The entire contents of this newsletter are being placed in the public
+domain. The source file of this issue will be placed in the {\tt
+aston}, {\tt shsu}, and {\tt stuttgart} archives, as well as at the {\tt
+heidelberg}, {\tt labrea}, and {\tt ymir} archives. Copying and
+reprinting are encouraged; however, an acknowledgement specifying \TTN\
+as the source would be appreciated.
+
+\vspace{.25pc}
+
+Submissions to \TTN\ should be short, the macros must work, and the
+files {\bf must} run without special font or graphics requirements: this
+is to be a {\em portable\/} newsletter (the new font naming scheme has
+not yet been implemented). Correspondence may be sent via e-mail to
+{\tt tug@math.ams.com} with the subject line {\tt NEWSLETTER}. Regular
+mail should be addressed to the Publications Committee, \careof\ TUG
+Office at the address below.
+
+\vspace{.25pc}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{ll}
+ \bf \TUG & Phone: 401-751-7760 \\
+ P.O.~Box 9506 & FAX: 401-751-1071 \\
+ Providence, RI 02940-9506 USA & E-mail: \tt tug@math.ams.com \\
+ \noalign{\vskip2pc}
+ \multicolumn{2}{c}{\TeX\ is a trademark of the
+ American Mathematical Society} \\
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Editorial (p.1):
+
+\pagestyle{myheadings}
+\markboth{\TTN\quad Vol.\ 1, No.\ 1, 1992}
+ {\TTN\quad Vol.\ 1, No.\ 1, 1992}
+
+\setcounter{page}{1} %% to set first page of contents to p.1
+
+\Section{Editorial}
+
+A financial deficit for TUG, which became quite severe in the second
+half of 1991, forced the cancellation of \TTN\ till now; as well, the
+July {\sl Proceedings\/} were spread across two issues of \TUB, in order
+to cut production and editorial costs. You will soon be receiving the
+first 1992 issue of \TUB: {\bf 13}, no.\ 1. We all hope that this
+financial crisis is now behind us. But you can help by checking that
+your institution has renewed its membership \dots\ And remember that the
+membership campaign asks you to {\bf TUG a member}!
+
+So, here we are, back on the air. And after such a long delay, there's
+a lot of news to catch up on. But first: {\bf 23 March 1992} is the
+deadline for submission of entries for the 1992 Knuth Scholarship. See
+p.\ 3 of the newsletter for information, as well as pp.\ 563--64 of
+\TUB\ {\bf 12}, no.\ 4.
+
+Other important TUG events have been the elections of last fall (p.\ 2),
+and some long-awaited information on the \LaTeX3 Project (pp.\ 4--6).
+And look at the opposite page --- on the inside front cover, we now
+carry the new \TUG\ Mission Statement. This is an important set of
+statements, which we will use to guide our direction, and our decisions,
+as we move through the 90s, and see the developments in \AllTeX\ and
+their application to the production of fine typesetting.
+
+We have a feature report on the state of \TeX\ in Mexico (pp.\ 7--11),
+where a large meeting of the new Mexican \TeX\ user group will convene
+towards the end of February. There are reports from other user groups
+(two new ones!), and meetings that have taken place and some to take
+place. There are two new columns --- {\sl Typographer's Inn\/} with
+Peter Flynn, and {\sl New Publications\/}, which is looking for a
+regular columnist. We hope to see new publications listed here in \TTN,
+and reviews to appear in \TUB, where there's more room!
+
+So, go read about what's been happening --- and send in your news, your
+views, and what works!
+
+\begin{center}
+ * \quad * \quad *
+\end{center}
+
+It is with sadness, both personal and professional, that we must also
+mark the passing of two very committed TUG members last year: Cathy
+Booth, who was intensely involved with the \TeX\ users in Britain, and
+Sam Whidden, a founding member of the \TUG. I was only one of many,
+many others who knew them, and who will not forget them.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Christina Thiele\\
+ Editor, \TTN
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Election Results: Board of Directors, Fall 1991 (p.2):
+
+\Section{First TUG Election by Mail}
+
+During 1991, a process was set in motion that would culminate in the
+first general election, by mail, for the TUG Board of Directors.
+
+Twenty seven candidates were on the ballot to fill 15 positions on the
+Board. There were 726 ballots cast, of which 9 were disqualified. The
+newly elected Board members are:
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{lrlrlr}
+ Barbara Beeton & 551 & Anita Hoover & 289 & David Kellerman
+ & 345 \\
+ Luzia Dietsche & 377 & Mimi Jett & 284 & Nico Poppelier
+ & 342 \\
+ Kenneth Dreyhaupt & 279 & Y.\ Haralambous & 380 & Jon Radel
+ & 269 \\
+ Michael Ferguson & 299 & Doug Henderson & 357 & Christina Thiele
+ & 354 \\
+ Peter Flynn & 328 & Alan Hoenig & 410 & William Woolf
+ & 313 \\
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+Of this new Board, five (Beeton, Henderson, Hoenig, Kellerman, and
+Thiele) have served on the Board previously. In addition to this list,
+the International Vice Presidents (Peter Abbott, the new Chair of the UK
+TUG, has replaced Malcolm Clark; Bernard Gaulle, GUTenberg; Roswitha
+Graham, Nordic TUG; Kees van der Laan, NTG; and Joachim Lammarsch,
+{\small DANTE}) remain on the Board. Malcolm Clark will be serving as
+TUG President for 1992.
+
+Three honorary members also remain associated with the Board: Donald
+Knuth, Hermann Zapf, and Ray Goucher.
+
+Unfortunately, we do not have any demographic information in time for
+this issue of \TTN\@. We will pursue this information and report as
+soon as it becomes available.
+
+There were some problems, as you might expect, with this first election.
+Probably the most notable was not enough time allowed for mail delivery
+outside of North America. This will be corrected in the next election.
+
+I hope you will join me in thanking the following outgoing Board members
+for their hard work at establishing TUG, helping TUG and \TeX\ to grow
+and become a success. (The number of years on the Board is shown in
+parentheses following each name.)
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{lrlrlr}
+ Lance Carnes$^2$ & (10) & David Fuchs & (11)
+ & Patrick Ion & (7) \\
+ Bart Childs$^{1,2}$ & (8) & Regina Girouard & (3)
+ & David Kratzer & (2) \\
+ John Crawford$^2$ & (7) & Dean Guenther$^2$ & (5)
+ & Pierre MacKay$^{1,2}$ & (8) \\
+ Allen Dyer & (4) & Hope Hamilton & (2)
+ & Craig Platt$^2$ & (6) \\
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\noindent {\bf Notes}: $^1$Former TUG President;
+ $^2$Present or former site coordinator.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Dean Guenther, Chair \\
+ Ad Hoc Committee on Election Procedures
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+%% Knuth Scholarship Announcement (DEADLINE: *23 March 92*) (p.3):
+
+\Section{Announcement:\\
+ The Donald E.\ Knuth Scholarship for 1992}
+
+The intent of the Donald E.\ Knuth Scholarship is to encourage the
+increase of knowledge about \TeX\ and to sharpen the \TeX\ skills of
+non-technical users.
+
+One Knuth Scholarship will be awarded in 1992. The competition will be
+open to all 1992 TUG members holding support positions that are
+secretarial, clerical or editorial in nature, as determined by job title
+and duties, and not holding a degree with a major in a technical,
+scientific or mathematical subject area. The award will consist of an
+expenses-paid trip to the TUG annual meeting and to the Scholar's choice
+from the short courses offered in conjunction with that meeting. A cap
+of \$2,000 has been set for the award; however, registration fees for
+the meeting and short course will be waived, and not counted in the
+limit.
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{||ll||}
+ \multicolumn{2}{c}{\large\bf Schedule} \\ [4pt]
+ \hline
+ March 23, 1992 & Deadline for receipt of submissions \\
+ April 7--May 25, 1992 & Judging period \\
+ June 1, 1992 & Notification of winner \\
+ \hline
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\medskip
+
+An announcement in \TUB\ {\bf 12}, no.\ 4, pp.\ 563--564, contains a
+description of the material that must be submitted by candidates, which
+includes a \TeX\ project of the candidate's choice, to be judged by the
+Scholarship Committee, and certain personal information.
+
+The Scholarship Committee consists of
+
+\hspace{1.5cm} Chris Rowley, Open University, U.K. (Chair);
+
+\hspace{1.5cm} Nico Poppelier, Elsevier Science Publishers, Holland;
+
+\hspace{1.5cm} David Salomon, California State University, Northridge; and
+
+\hspace{1.5cm} Linda Williams, University of Tennessee Space Institute.
+
+\vspace{.5pc}
+
+A brochure containing the \TUB{} article and additional information is
+available from the TUG Office. To obtain a copy, or to request
+instructions on e-mail submission, write to the address below, or send a
+message by e-mail to {\tt TUG@Math.AMS.com} with the subject {\tt Knuth
+Scholarship request}.
+
+\begin{Address}
+ \TUG\\
+ Attn: Knuth Scholarship Competition\\
+ 658 North Main Street\\
+ P.\,O Box 9506\\
+ Providence, RI 02940-9506 \quad U.S.A.
+\end{Address}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% LaTeX3 Project (covering letter + description) (pp.4-6):
+
+\Section{What is the \LaTeX3 Project?}
+
+The accompanying description of the \LaTeX3 project from two of the
+active group members should help to explain what the project is about,
+and why there was an item on the membership renewal soliciting
+contributions. Our original intention was to provide background to the
+project in \TTN\ late last year, but the decision to conserve TUG's
+resources by postponing that edition led to the membership renewal being
+seen long before the explanation.
+
+It is important to realize that TUG's involvement is not that of
+directly providing financial resources, but rather of helping to attract
+support from a wide range of potential sources. Details of expenditure
+by the project team will be published in \TTN\@. One of TUG's major
+roles will be to make information about the project widely available.
+This will work at a number of different levels. For example, I have
+appointed Alan Hoenig as Board liaison with the project --- he will be
+the TUG channel aware of the current status of the project, and able to
+summarize that information for us all, through the medium of \TTN\@. We
+will also be publicizing and supporting the tutorials and workshops
+envisaged by the project, both to discuss the problems uncovered, and to
+allow the future users of \LaTeX3 the opportunity to see where current
+thinking lies. We may also expect to see more substantial information
+about aspects of the programme published in \TUB; for example, Frank's
+`Stockholm' paper provides some helpful insights into the project and
+will appear sometime this year.
+
+Much rides on the success of this project. It is the first time that
+TUG has contributed to a major project in this way --- and \LaTeX3 is
+undoubtedly a major project. The widespread use of \LaTeX\ as the \TeX\
+tool of choice gives this particular project relevance to us all. The
+lessons learned will influence the way we participate in other areas
+which we believe will secure the future of (\La)\TeX.
+
+Among the current sponsors of the project, who have provided cash or
+some other support, are: Addison-Wesley, the American Mathematical
+Society, Arbor\-Text, Aston University, Blue Sky Research, Digital
+Equipment Corporation, EDS Electronic Data Systems, Elsevier Science
+Publishers, Nordic \TeX\ Users Group, the Open University, Personal
+\TeX\ Inc, the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm), the Royal
+Military College of Science, Southampton University, the \TeX\ Users
+Group, \TeX 88, \TeX pert systems, the UK \TeX\ Users' Group, and
+Univer\-sit\"ats\-rechen\-zentrum Heidelberg. Individual members of TUG
+have contributed just under \$1,000 (so far).
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Malcolm Clark \\
+ President, \TUG
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+\Section{The \LaTeX3 Project Fund}
+
+Some of you may be wondering why your TUG membership renewal form asked
+for contributions to \LaTeX3. The immediate reason is that the Board of
+Directors has agreed to set up and administer a \LaTeX3 Project Fund, to
+publicize this fund and to help in attracting wide-ranging support for
+it --- from corporations, trusts and other external sources --- and also
+from TUG's institutional and individual members (that's you!).
+
+But before you reflect on how you can help, you would probably like to
+know a bit more about the project.
+
+\subsection*{Brief history}
+
+The decision to produce an improved and expanded version of \LaTeX\ was
+taken during the 1989 TUG conference at Stanford. It was the result of
+two meetings between Leslie Lamport and groups of \LaTeX\ users which
+were followed by detailed discussions between Frank Mittelbach and
+Leslie Lamport.
+
+Wider discussions have taken place about the various requirements for
+the new version, and a small group has produced prototype
+implementations of some parts of this system. The project's technical
+director is Frank Mittelbach and its management is shared by him with
+Chris Rowley and Rainer Sch\"opf.
+
+\subsection*{Aims}
+
+The \LaTeX3 project will produce a public-domain document preparation
+system which combines the power and excellence of \TeX's typesetting
+capabilities with ease of use for authors, editors and designers.
+
+The most important principle, which is followed by the present \LaTeX\
+and which will guide the new project, is the separation of generic
+mark-up from visual formatting.
+
+A major new feature of \LaTeX3 will be a good interface through which
+designers can specify how classes of documents will be formatted and
+hence set up the style files which enable \TeX\ to typeset documents
+according to these specifications. It will enable them to specify any
+font families and give access to a large range of typographic
+possibilities and to many detailed enhancements and extensions of the
+current facilities.
+
+Thus \LaTeX3 will be able to process a far wider range of documents. It
+will also have a more robust and more flexible author interface (no
+fragile commands), with interactive error-handling linked to a help
+system. It will, of course, be multi-lingual.
+
+The code will consist of modules with precisely specified interfaces,
+thus making future maintenance and extensions straightforward. Full
+documentation of all parts of the system will be produced as part of the
+project. Easy and rapid conversion to the new version will be ensured
+by wide dissemination of the information and utilities needed for
+up-grading.
+
+The TUG community, especially providers of software (both public domain
+and commercial), will be kept fully informed about the progress of the
+project and its implications.
+
+\subsection*{Schedule and finance}
+
+Work on the project started some time ago and it is scheduled to be
+completed by mid-1993. Since none of the volunteers is working
+full-time on this project, maintenance of this schedule is to some
+extent dependent on other demands on their time. It has also become
+clear that progress, which has been good so far, will depend on adequate
+financial support being available for the following purposes:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item enhancement of computer equipment and software for the core
+ development team;
+ \item purchase of books on typography and other related subjects;
+ \item essential expenses (travel, accommodation, etc.) for
+ occasional meetings of the project's core development team;
+ and also for meetings with others, for example: testers of
+ early versions; publishers; typographic designers; suppliers
+ of related software, etc.
+\end{itemize}
+
+So, now you know how your money will be used. Even if you have already
+returned your membership renewal, it is not too late to send your
+contribution to the TUG office, clearly marked \LaTeX3\ --- and many
+thanks, especially to all those who have already contributed.
+
+And don't forget that ``every penny counts'' --- it does not matter how
+small your contribution is. To put this in perspective, if every member
+of TUG contributed just \$10 then we should have an excellent basis from
+which to attract further funds from other sources.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Frank Mittelbach \\
+ Chris Rowley
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Feature Article: TeX in Mexico (pp.7-11):
+
+\Section{Scientific Publishing in Mexico}
+
+In this report, we want to give a picture of the \TeX\ users' community
+in Mexico, a bit of history and pride, and a brief description of the
+capabilities and needs of Mexican scientific printers. In view of the
+growing free trade atmosphere, this information may be useful for
+technical text publishing companies, \TeX\ enterprises advertising in
+TUG publications --- and freelance hackers who would like to live in a
+milder climate.
+
+\subsection*{The transfer of knowledge}
+
+You can probably guess that the first printing shop in America was south
+of the border. Early colonial Mexico City got its first press in 1539
+thanks to the efforts of the Friar and Bishop Juan de Zum\'arraga, who
+inspired the first Viceroy, Antonio de Mendoza, on the benefits of
+modern ``high technology.'' Giovanni Paoli, a master of repute, came to
+live in a milder climate, changing his name to Juan Pablos, First
+Printer of the Americas. His shop was at the Casa de las Campanas,
+somewhere downtown. An immediate benefit was a steady production of
+fine theology texts and prayer books; the longer range benefits included
+the growth and reproduction of Spanish culture and academic life, even
+during the stagnation of the seventeenth century. This and similar
+technical knowledge permitted the Bourbon kings to launch their economic
+reforms, and later channeled the intense literary life and political
+polemics of the last century.
+
+Although Pablos' shop preceded the one in Cambridge by a hundred years,
+newspaper printing technology had to be imported anew at the turn of the
+century. It quickly caught on, however, and was used with gusto when
+politics turned violent again, as were other gadgets such as railrods,
+telephones, and airplaines (Carranza was the first acting President to
+fly, in 1917). This pattern of technological spread has also applied to
+the particularly rapid computer revolution that started in Mexico in the
+early 60s: it spread via researchers, mostly from public universities,
+who belonged to formal or informal international scientific networks,
+and were thus informed and abreast of new developments. As in other
+scientific/technological areas, the pattern seems to be that these
+individuals can rather quickly reproduce prototypes in their home
+Mexican institutions. There sometimes the prototypes linger as a
+curiosity, a prized tool for academic research, but rather slowly and
+rarely diffused to industry.
+
+Max D\'\i az brought the first \TeX'80 version to the Instituto de
+Investigaciones en Matem\'aticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas ({\small
+IIMAS}), of the National University of Mexico ({\small UNAM}). It lay
+there as a curiosity in the Foonly mini-computer for a few months, while
+Max worked on {\tt View} and a laser printer was found. I had always
+had a typographic interest, so for the School and Workshop on Nonlinear
+Phenomena, which we had organized in Oaxtepec during December 1982, we
+had the possibility to test \TeX\ on stationery and programs for the
+event, and the nerve to propose that the Proceedings volume should thus
+be nicely printed. (All the great gurus at the meeting were happy and
+willing to write hefty contributions.) Its 500-odd pages were completed
+in July 1983 with the part-time help of five science students who did
+the typing (Wolf, ed., 1983). We know that Donald Knuth's {\sl \TeX
+book\/} (1984) and Michael Spivak's {\sl Joy of TeX\/} (1986) were the
+first and second books in \TeX\ and also that ours was the first with
+Springer. Unless readers correct me, third place does not seem too bad
+\ldots
+
+Good! So, why not write some more books!? At {\small IIMAS} we edited an
+engineering textbook on integral transforms (M\'arquez and de la Lanza,
+1984), and one on quantum mechanics (de Llano, 1985): both turned out to
+be complete bureaucratic disasters (the floppies are still kept in a
+drawer). The National University of Mexico is the largest publishing
+house in Latin America, but back in 1985 it was impossible to run a
+profitable enterprise with exotic technology, let alone pay a fee per
+page. The editors of Springer Verlag were also discouraged. In
+retrospect, however, the effort was not all wasted (Wolf et al., 1986).
+Among the few people who have become \TeX\ professionals in Mexico are
+some of those very students who typed those first texts. Also, as more
+researchers drooled with envy at the impeccably printed preprints (e.g.,
+Wolf, Hlavat\'y, and Steinberg, 1982; Boyer, 1982), theses (Navarro
+Saad, 1985), and books (S\'anchez-Mondrag\'on and Wolf, eds., 1986;
+Wolf, ed., 1989) from {\small IIMAS}, the \TeX\ virus continued to
+extend to other institutes and universities. Most important (and much
+more effective) was the establishment of a soft- and hardware enterprise
+by Armando Jinich and Max D\'\i az (both from {\small IIMAS}) that sold
+protected PC\TeX\ and initially also provided maintenance and \TeX\
+training for personnel.
+
+\subsection*{El Grupo de Usuarios de \TeX}
+
+In December 1986 we convened La Primera Reuni\'on del Grupo de Usuarios
+de \TeX\ in Cuernavaca, a beautiful place 80 km south of Mexico City
+(Wolf, 1987). There were 57 participants representing a healthy variety
+of academic and governmental institutions, and publishing companies.
+The following year we counted 90 volumes produced in \TeX, including the
+{\sl Enciclopedia de M\'exico\/}.\footnote{[For more details on this and
+other projects in Mexico, see \TUB\ 10 (1989), No.\ 4, pages 579--593
+--Ed.]} In successive years, users and interest have diversified: since
+1988, the Presidential Address to the Nation read superbly; non-trivial
+{\tt ampersand} tabulation macros have been written, although their
+commercialization is still hampered by antiquated software copyright
+laws; high-tech art and {\em sui generis\/}-formatting books on musical
+theory and critique (Estrada, 1990). Several physics, mathematics, and
+other academic journals are now printed in \TeX: the {\sl Bolet\'\i n de
+la Sociedad Mexicana de F\'\i sica\/} and {\sl Revista Mexicana de F\'\i
+sica\/} (published by the Mexican Physical Society); the {\sl Bolet\'\i
+n de la Sociedad Matem\'atica Mexicana\/} and {\sl Anales del Instituto
+de Matem\'aticas\/}; and institutional journals such as {\sl Avance y
+Perspectiva\/}, {\sl Contactos\/}, and {\sl Ciencia --- Revista de la
+Academia de la Investigaci\'on Cient\'\i fica\/}.
+
+Published since 1954, the {\sl Revista Mexicana de F\'\i sica\/} is the
+oldest and best-known Latin American physics journal. Since 1987 (vol.\
+33), it has been produced with \TeX\ with F\'\i s.\ Arturo S\'anchez y
+G\'andara as \TeX nical editor. Volumes 33 and 34 have contained an
+average of 15 articles and 174 pages per quarter (mostly in English, but
+Spanish and Portuguese are also accepted), or roughly 700 pages per
+volume (S\'anchez y G\'andara, 1990).
+
+In January 1990, the editors of these scientific journals held a Round
+Table at the Fourth Grupo de Usuarios meeting. It was seen that desktop
+publishing units had been successfully established (with editors,
+typists, secretaries) at each of the institutions, but that each was
+devoted to one or two publications. Springer Verlag at Heidelberg, by
+contrast, manages 250 journals, handling everything beyond the ``\ldots\
+we accept your paper \ldots'' letter of the journal editor.
+
+Clearly it was time for a publishing company to appear to handle these
+four or six scientific journals and bulletins, thus offering savings to
+the government subsidies that have nurtured them all. Easier said than
+done, but the 1991 Round Table at the Fifth Mex\TeX\ (entitled {\small
+MERCADO\TeX NIA}) gathered some four \TeX\ entrepreneurs who now carry
+on the production (although not yet the distribution) of one or two of
+these journals. At the same time, we felt the need for a software
+company to provide services and training for \TeX\ users (Auri\'on
+Tecnolog\'\i a gradually bowed out of these activities during 1990). We
+now depend on a spidery web of altruistic pirates to provide us with new
+fonts (Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew), figure caretakers, global formats and
+general updating, an information clearinghouse and friendly distributors
+of hackers' macros.
+
+In 1989, the Centro Internacional de F\'\i sica y Matem\'aticas
+Aplicadas ({\small CIFMA\/} AC, Cuernavaca) obtained a grant to further
+editorial competence\footnote{Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog\'\i
+a, {\sl Tipograf\'\i a Cient\'\i fica Automatizada\/}, P107
+CCOT89/4517.} by sending a couple of people to TUG annual meetings and
+to Springer Verlag in Heidelberg for training in journal management.
+Although Mexico's human resources for scientific publications in \TeX\
+are good by Latin American standards (on a par with Brazil, and not too
+far behind Spain), we have had few links with international \TeX\ users
+groups, commercial or academic. It was thus good to have with us at the
+1991 meeting Ms.\ Betsy Dale of ArborText, to learn of the services
+provided by her and other American \TeX\ companies. The Grupo de
+Usuarios de \TeX\ is still an informal organization; its creation under
+the legal title of an {\sl Asociaci\'on Civil\/} has been an idea raised
+at the yearly meetings and understood to be a hot potato with lots of
+work and little academic recognition.
+
+\subsection*{Some conclusions}
+
+It has also become clearer what kind of work \TeX\ is good for, and what
+other choices are better for page design, legal bulletins, and pulp
+magazines. The consensus is that most ordinary text is easier and
+cheaper to produce with what's-its-name systems usually friendlier to
+secretaries and typo workers. Scientific text is \TeX's home territory,
+no doubt. Technical text edition, such as engineering journals and
+bulletins, reports and projects, is the gray area where \TeX\ companies
+have to prove their cost effectiveness and accede to this considerable
+market. The Instituto de Investigaciones El\'ectricas de Cuernavaca
+(largest engineering research institute in the country) has such an
+organization to handle its output. The Instituto Mexicano del
+Petr\'oleo (still larger) is in the first stages of adopting the system
+for some of its publications. Probably the most compact expert group in
+the edition of scientific text in Mexico is at the Sociedad Mexicana de
+F\'\i sica.\footnote{Sociedad Mexicana de F\'\i sica, AC, Apartado
+Postal 70-348, 04510 M\'exico D.F., contact Arturo S\'anchez y G\'andara
+and Jos\'e Luis Olivares.}
+
+The prices per page of journal text quoted at this year's meeting were
+comparable to those advertised in TUG correspondence and in \TUB. Since
+salaries are considerably lower in Mexico, one may wonder why scientific
+printing can't also be lower. It's no great secret, not for general
+reasons but rather, for particular reasons. For example, at banks, one
+has to stand in line for an incredible length of time to deposit a
+cheque; appointments are not quite so binding as in the time-poor First
+World; one visit is seldom enough for most matters; federal mail takes
+at least a week in spite of {\small ZIP} codes; pulse telephone lines
+are still prevalent and they are noisy, so {\sc fax}es easily fail; few
+personal computers are linked to networks and one may be left netless
+for days on end; as well, the local tax office increasingly
+over-administrates.
+
+Things are bound to change, we are told, so text and printing services
+should become competitive in Mexico in the near future. Communications
+are being upgraded (and privatized), albeit slowly; technological parks
+are being set up near the border, in Quer\'etaro. These parks provide
+company-incubating services to guide newcomers through the red tape of
+the establishment, as well as some ready communication lines. Regarding
+personnel, local expertise in handling scientific literature is ample
+but diffuse. It exists in students and graduates of the School of
+Science at {\small UNAM} and some five other universities in the
+country; there are many key-happy academics (who need, rather than sell,
+expert services --- there is too much improvisation by otherwise
+over-qualified people), and some smart bilingual secretaries. Probably
+some 200 individuals in all. Lastly, the professional profile of a
+scientific/technical editor is only beginning to be appreciated.
+
+There is a long tradition of book production in Mexican art and
+literature publishing houses. The major Spanish, European and American
+book companies are represented and routinely translate and print
+technical books. For all these pluses, scientific literature is not yet
+handled in a fully professional and efficient way; there is more than
+one niche open for enterprising people.
+
+\subsection*{References}
+
+\mbox{}\bibentry{Boyer, C.P. {\sl The Geometry of Self-Dual Einstein
+ Spaces\/}, {\small IIMAX-CT} Notas, No.\ 23. M\'exico: {\small
+ UNAM}, 1982.}
+
+\bibentry{Estrada, J. {\sl Los Sonidos en Juan Rulfo\/}. M\'exico:
+ {\small UNAM}, 1990.}
+
+\bibentry{de Llano, M. {\sl Mec\'anica Cu\'antica\/}. M\'exico:
+ Facultad de Ciencias, {\small UNAM}, 1985 (unpublished).}
+
+\bibentry{M\'arquez, P.\ Garc\'\i a and C.\ de la Lanza. {\sl
+ Ecuaciones Diferenciales y en Diferencias\/}. M\'exico: Facultad
+ de Ingenier\'\i a, {\small UNAM}, 1984 (unpublished).}
+
+\bibentry{Navarro Saad, M. ``M\'etodos de teor\'\i a de grupos en
+ el estudio de aberraciones de tercer orden.'' B.Sc.\ thesis.
+ M\'exico: Facultad de Ciencias, {\small UNAM}, 1985.}
+
+\bibentry{S\'anchez y G\'andara, A. ``Aplicaciones de la tipograf\'\i a
+ automatizada al manejo de informaci\'on cient\'\i fica.'' B.Sc.\
+ thesis. M\'exico: Facultad de Ciencias, {\small UNAM}, 1990.}
+
+\bibentry{S\'anchez-Mondrag\'on, J., and K.B.\ Wolf, eds. {\sl Lie
+ Methods in Optics\/}, Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 250.
+ Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1986.}
+
+\bibentry{Wolf, K.B. ``News of \TeX\ Users in Mexico.'' \TUB\
+ 8 (1987), no.\ 1, page 7.}
+
+\bibentry{------\ts, ed. {\sl Nonlinear Phenomena\/}, Lecture Notes in
+ Physics, Volume 189. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 1983.}
+
+\bibentry{------\ts, ed. {\sl Lie Methods in Optics\/}, vol.\ II,
+ Lecture Notes in Physics, Volume 352. Heidelberg: Springer
+ Verlag, 1989.}
+
+\bibentry{------\ et al. {\sl Manual de Lenguaje y Tipograf\'\i a
+ Cient\'\i fica en Castellano\/}. M\'exico: Editorial Trillas, 1986.}
+
+\bibentry{Wolf, K.B., L.\ Hlavat\'y and S.\ Steinberg. {\sl Nonlinear
+ Differential Equations as Invariants under Group Action on Coset
+ Bundles. I.\ Burgers and Korteweg-de Vries Equation Families\/}.
+ Comunicaciones T\'ecnicas {\small IIMAS}, No.\ 219. M\'exico:
+ {\small UNAM}, 1982.}
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ {\it Kurt Bernardo Wolf} \\
+ Instituto de Investigaciones en \\
+ Matem\'aticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas, \\
+ Universidad Nacional Aut\'onoma de M\'exico \\
+ Cuernavaca
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Typographer's Inn (Peter Flynn column) (pp.12-13):
+
+\Section{Typographer's Inn}
+
+\begingroup
+
+\def\TeX{{\sc t\kern-.1667em\lower.4ex\hbox{e}\kern-.125emx}}
+\def\LaTeX{\TestCount=\the\fam \leavevmode {\sc l}\raise.42ex
+ \hbox{$\fam\TestCount\scriptscriptstyle\kern-.3em A$}\kern-.15em\TeX}
+
+In the desktop publishing ({\sc dtp}) world at large there seems to be
+an upsurge in interest in typography, now that the first flush of
+enthusiasm among {\sc wysiwyg} devotees is beginning to settle.
+
+Ever anxious to be the first kid on the block, {\sc ttn} is proud to
+introduce this column as a forum for discussing matters typographic.
+Here you can ask for help, grouse about the inadequacies of typefaces,
+laugh over some typographic gaffe, or shout about the new things you've
+done or seen done.
+
+As a new column, we have no contributions yet, so I'm going to stand on
+my soapbox and shoot my mouth off, in the hope that it will stimulate
+you to write and fuel the debate.
+
+First off is the question of training: how do we persuade new users
+(principally of \TeX, but actually of almost any word processing or {\sc
+dtp} system) that spreading fonts across the page like peanut butter
+across hot toast is not necessarily the route to typographic excellence?
+I'm biased---I run typography training courses (on demand, for cash), so
+I try to explain that communication of ideas is the principal task of
+the typographic designer, and I try to equip new users with some basic
+skills in layout and font selection to help them do this. But I'm sure
+there are other ways, and I would like to hear about them.
+
+That raises the second point: the Computer Modern fonts. They are
+`standard', that is, they come shipped with almost every version of
+\TeX, so that a document using this known set of font files is portable
+worldwide. This is a huge advantage on the one hand, and a huge
+drawback on the other, because so many reviewers/commenters on \TeX\
+gripe that ``it only has one typeface''. Although this is rubbish
+(\TeX\ actually works with almost any typeface from any source, given
+the right conversion tools) it is not obvious to the beginner, or even
+the seasoned user, just how to go about getting and implementing new
+fonts. The revised font selection scheme for \LaTeX\ will make life
+easier, but I for one haven't had time even to look at it yet. Can
+someone perhaps summarize the steps for a new user of \LaTeX?
+
+Moving right along, there is the related question of layout. In \LaTeX,
+the page layout is pre-defined, and it takes a fairly sophisticated
+hacker to change the design. In Plain \TeX, you have to do everything
+yourself from scratch. Much play is made in the documentation
+surrounding \TeX ware of the virtues of fully marked text, and its
+inherent portability, but we still need the middle course between Plain
+\TeX\ and \LaTeX, which would provide the management macros such as
+sectioning, indexing, table-of-contents, cross-referencing and the
+handling of illustrations, without imposing a visual style which is hard
+to change. Anyone volunteer to write this? Or to tell me why it's a
+silly idea?
+
+What about a bibliography? I have references to (mainly) European books
+on typography, but we need a more worldwide spread for it to be useful.
+This could be stored on a {\tt listserv} and on an {\tt ftp}--accessible
+machine for people to retrieve. And what about starting up a {\tt
+TYPO-L} list?
+
+One of the reasons I use \TeX\ is because of the control it gives me.
+In most visual {\sc dtp} systems, typographic quality takes a back seat
+to claimed ease of use. Just pick up almost any piece of {\sc dtp}'d
+rubbish that pops into your mailbox and study it hard and critically:
+are the baselines straight? Is the interletter spacing correct? Are the
+margins evenly aligned, especially in itemised lists? Are the lines
+evenly spaced? All these things are taken for granted in \TeX, because
+it does them so well, but there are people out there unwittingly
+producing poor-quality work through no fault of their own except lack of
+knowledge.
+
+While we're on the subject, if \TeX\ is so hot at these things, why
+isn't everyone using it? Some while back I was talking to the graphic
+designer at a nearby university where they use Ventura. Under his
+tutelage, they produce excellent work, but not all institutions are
+design-aware enough to employ someone as skilled as him to oversee the
+quality of publicly-consumed {\sc dtp}. One thing he did mention,
+though, was having worked long and hard on a thesis which contained a
+lot of math. Yep, you guessed. They had to position every symbol in
+every equation by hand, with a mouse, because they were simply unaware
+that \TeX\ existed and could do the job automatically in a small
+fraction of the time.
+
+Finally (for now), what about literacy? It was fashionable among
+`progressive' educationalists and educators some while back to claim
+that a knowledge of punctuation, spelling and grammar was almost
+unnecessary these days. Funny how they've all gone quiet now that the
+labor market has tightened up and only the better-qualified applicants
+get jobs. But we still see `Street' shortened to `St.' when there is
+plenty of space for the whole word; indecision about punctuation after
+`Ms', `Mr' and the like; misplaced apostrophe's; unnecessary hyphens,
+and a whole pile of little itty bitty things which may be unimportant in
+themselves, but contribute to the overall impression of sloppiness. Any
+compositor of the hot-metal generation would blush if accused of one of
+these slips, but now that anyone can do their own typesetting, how do we
+prevent the slide into the garbage can? Do we even need to worry about
+it?
+
+So tell me. Mail me ({\tt cbts8001@iruccvax.ucc.ie}) with a {\tt
+Subject:} line of {\tt TTN Typography}. Or mail the editor. And let's
+make this column {\em the\/} place to discuss typography (it could give
+the phrase ``letters to the editor'' a whole new meaning).
+
+Oh, yeah. A drink on me at the {\sc tug} meeting in Oregon ({\tenmi
+1992}) for the first mail saying what the significant typographic change
+in this article is.
+
+\endgroup
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Peter Flynn\\
+ University College Cork
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% New Publications (p.14):
+
+\Section{New Publications}
+
+\begin{description}
+ \item [Claudio Beccari.] {\sl{\it \LaTeX} --- Guida a un sistema di
+ editoria elettronica\/}. Milano: Editore Ulrico Hoepli Milano,
+ 1991. ix + 399~pp. ISBN 88-203-1931-4.\\
+ $\bullet$ The book is the first and only one in Italian at this
+ moment. Although it contains an introductory chapter for the
+ beginner, its main purpose is to give the reader advanced
+ information on \LaTeX\ (and partially on \TeX) in order to
+ prepare sophisticated macros, style files, and to make clever
+ use of fonts.
+
+ \item [Arvind Borde.] {\sl \TeX\ by Example\/}. New York: Academic
+ Press, 1991. 169~pp.\ (softcover), US\$19.95.
+ {\bf \$18 for TUG members.} ISBN 0-12-117650-9.\\
+ $\bullet$ This book teaches entirely by example. Input and output
+ are shown side-by-side, allowing users to spot quickly how to get
+ symbols, how to obtain italics, how to use bold type, how to
+ start new paragraphs, and so on. The alphabetic appendix is both
+ an index and a glossary, which systematically lists all commonly
+ used features of \TeX.
+
+ \item [Victor Eijkhout.] {\sl \TeX\ by Topic: A \TeX nician's
+ Reference\/}. Wokingham, UK: Addison-Wesley, 1992. viii +
+ 307~pp.\ (softcover), US\$30.00. {\bf \$27 for TUG members.}
+ ISBN 0-201-56882-9.\\
+ $\bullet$ {\sl \TeX\ by Topic\/} is a systematic reference
+ manual designed as a companion to tutorial guides about \TeX.
+ Not for the novice, it is meant for users with a basic
+ understanding of \TeX\ who have specific questions, or who are
+ keen to explore the full potential of this unique computer
+ typesetting system.
+
+ \item [Jane Hahn.] {\sl{\it \LaTeX} for Everyone\/}. Mill Valley:
+ Personal \TeX\ Inc., 1991. xi + 346~pp.\ (softcover),
+ US\$19.95. {\bf \$18 for TUG members.} ISBN 0-9631044-0-3.\\
+ $\bullet$ {\sl{\it \LaTeX} for Everyone\/} is a tutorial as well
+ as a reference guide. Written with the beginning user in mind,
+ it is designed to be easy to read and understand, and contains
+ examples of all the basic commands. The experienced \LaTeX\
+ user, however, will also find this book to be a valuable
+ reference tool.
+
+ \item [Raymond Seroul and Silvio Levy.] {\sl A Beginner's Book of
+ \TeX\/}. New York: Springer Verlag, 1991. 283~pp.\ (softcover),
+ US\$29.95, DM58,--\ts. {\bf \$27 for TUG members}.
+ ISBN 0-387-97562-4.\\
+ $\bullet$ Seroul and Levy's book is an excellent beginner's
+ text. It is meant for careful reading, in which case it gives
+ a surprising amount of detail. The book also has a reference
+ section. This is an expanded translation of Seroul's book,
+ {\sl Le petit Livre de \TeX\/} (Paris: InterEditions, 1989).
+
+\end{description}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% ``Hey -- it works!'' (pp.15-16):
+
+\Section{``Hey --- it works!''}
+
+\subsection*{The Cauchy Integral}
+
+\begingroup
+\def\intcauchy{\mskip3mu-\mskip-18mu\int}
+
+When the applied sciences use complex numbers they generally need a
+symbol for the Cauchy integral, which is a regular integral sign with a
+bar across. The following macro will do:
+%
+\begin{verbatim}
+ \def\intcauchy{\mskip3mu-\mskip-18mu\int}
+\end{verbatim}
+%
+and works pretty well with most \LaTeX\ size options, although the best
+is as always the 10pt default size. If you do not like \verb"\def" you
+can use the standard \LaTeX\ commands:
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ \newcommand{\intcauchy}{\mskip3mu-\mskip-18mu\int}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+\noindent Now you can write in display math:
+
+\begin{displaymath}
+\intcauchy_\infty^\infty f(z){\rm\,d}z =
+ \lim_{R\to\infty}\int_R^R f(z){\rm\,d}z
+\end{displaymath}
+%
+by using the new command \verb"\intcauchy" as you do with regular
+integral signs.
+
+By the way, ISO standards require the differential sign to be typeset
+with Roman type, a rule that is very seldom observed even in the most
+qualified mathematical papers.
+\endgroup
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Claudio Beccari \\
+ Politecnico di Torino, Italy
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+\subsection*{Dealing with Very Long Paragraphs}
+
+The following problem would never have occurred to me --- I am a
+mathematician, and I do not write really long paragraphs. But habits
+are different, and so it happened that the other day a mathematics
+historian I know mentioned the following problem.
+
+He complained that, once in a while, \TeX\ reported insufficient memory
+when compiling some unusually long paragraph. Of course, he admitted
+that it would be possible to give in and introduce an additional
+paragraph. But certainly that would not be completely satisfactory.
+Another way out would be to use some big\TeX-Version --- neither
+elegant, nor convenient.
+
+Fortunately, there is yet another solution.
+
+If a paragraph is too long for \TeX's memory, then certainly it should
+also be long enough to prescribe the \verb|\parfillskip|! Therefore the
+following definition introduces an ``invisible paragraph''
+\verb|\nopar|. It can be inserted into a long paragraph --- for
+instance, just before the point where \TeX's memory was exhausted --- or
+even just ``for safety'' when a paragraph seems to be too long. But
+beware: when inserted too early \verb|\nopar| may produce a nasty
+underfull \verb|\hbox|!
+
+\begin{verbatim}
+ \def\nopar{{\parfillskip0pt\parskip0pt\par\noindent}}
+\end{verbatim}
+
+Note the double pair of brackets --- they serve to restore the previous
+settings of \verb|\parskip| and \verb|\parfillskip| after the invisible
+\verb|\par|. See also {\sl The \TeX book\/}, p.~100 for a description
+and dangerous bend problem {\bf 14.15}, and p.~315 for the solution.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Peter Schmitt \\
+ Universit\"at Wien, Austria \\
+ \tt a8131dal@awiuni11.bitnet
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+%% TeX news (p.16):
+
+\Section{\AllTeX\ News}
+
+\subsection*{I\LaTeX}
+
+As of December 18, 1991, International \LaTeX\ (or I\LaTeX\ for short)
+does not exist any more. If it is found on any \TeX\ servers, it is
+outdated and should be deleted. The latest version of \LaTeX, dated
+December 12, 1991, has made this possible, since it incorporates the
+functionality of I\LaTeX\@. Please use this (or a newer) version.
+
+The following parts were not incorporated into \LaTeX:
+
+\begin{description}
+ \item [The Generic Local Guide.]
+ It will be released as a separate distribution at a later
+ time. I have a lot of responses to check first, though.
+
+ \item [The support for multi-lingual documents.]
+ The Babel system by Johannes Braahms provide an alternative
+ possibility. If you prefer my system, it can still be fetched
+ via anonymous ftp from ftp.th-darmstadt.de, directory
+ pub/tex/initex, files mlinitex*.
+ I think that parts of this system might influence the Babel
+ development in the future.
+\end{description}
+
+I hope that I have served the \TeX\ community with the I\LaTeX\ support
+and look forward doing new, other, work in the \TeX\ arena.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Joachim Schrod\\
+ Darmstadt \\
+ \tt schrod@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% News from Around... + Reports on Meetings (pp.17-21):
+
+\Section{News from Around \ldots}
+
+\subsection*{CyrTUG
+ \hfill
+ \it Irina Makhovaya}
+
+\vspace{-.5pc}
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Mir Publishers, Moscow
+\end{flushright}
+
+\noindent I'd like to send you CyrTUG's warmest regards. CyrTUG is a
+new group, uniting \TeX\ users in Russia. Our objectives are to further
+development of \TeX nology in Russia, coordinate developments and
+standardization, create a Cyrillic \TeX, and support contacts with \TeX\
+users from the USA, England, France, Germany, Holland and other
+countries. We understand that there is serious interest in a Cyrillic
+\TeX\ in the United States and other countries. We have also heard
+about a Slovenian Users Group.
+
+Our constituent meeting took place at Mir Publishers, in Moscow, May
+23--24 of this year; coincidentally, this was also the Cyrill and
+Mefodiy days --- a celebration of the Slovenian languages. In all,
+twenty-three representatives from twelve establishments in four Russian
+cities attended the meeting. The number of \TeX\ users at each of these
+institutions ranges from one to 100 people, so that effectively some 250
+users from across Russia were represented at the meeting.
+
+The following individuals were elected to the Board of Directors:
+
+\medskip
+ Joseph Romanovsky, President, LSU, Leningrad
+
+ Irina Makhovaya, Executive Director, Mir, Moscow
+
+ Vladislav Andrushchenko, IRL, Moscow
+
+ Mark Doubson, CEMI, Moscow
+
+ Eugene Pankratiev, MSU, Moscow
+
+ Alexander Samarin, IHEP, Protvino
+
+ Anatoly Urvantsev, NSU, Novosibirsk
+\medskip
+
+A second meeting took place at the Institute of High Energy Physics
+({\small IHEP}), in Protvino, a suburb of Moscow, August 22--23. In
+September, some reports on our activities were presented at the
+Euro\TeX\ conference in France, and some will appear in {\sl TUGboat\/}.
+We appreciate very much the invitations from Euro\TeX\ to our
+colleagues.
+
+We plan to hold our annual meetings in May. The first Annual Meeting of
+CyrTUG will take place at IHEP, Protvino, in 1992. We would be very
+glad to see \TeX\ gurus, \TeX perts, and anybody from TUG, the UK\TeX
+UG, {\small DANTE}, GUTenberg, NTG, and other national groups. We would
+like to invite everyone who is interested in \TeX, Russia and
+international cooperation.
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\subsection*{SibTUG
+ \hfill
+ \it Dr.\ Anatoly L.\ Urvantsev}
+
+\vspace{-.5pc}
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Computing Center, Novosibirsk University
+\end{flushright}
+
+\noindent This is official information about the founding of a \TeX\
+Users Group in Siberia. The inaugural meeting took place 6 Dec.\ 1991
+at Novosibirsk State University. Fifteen people, representing ten
+organizations from the Siberian cities of Novosibirsk, Krasnojarsk and
+Barnaul, took part.
+
+Members of the board of SibTUG include:
+
+\medskip
+ Dr.\ Anatoly L.\ Urvantsev (Computing Center, Novosibirsk) -- Chairman
+
+ Dr.\ Vladimir N.\ Djatlov (Novosibirsk University) -- Executive Director
+
+ Il'a R.\ Roussakov (NAUKA Publishing House, Novosibirsk)
+
+ Prof.\ Anatoly M.\ Fedotov (Computing Center, Krasnojarsk)
+
+ Dr.\ Gennady I.\ Algazin (Altaj University, Barnaul)
+
+ Prof.\ Vladimir A.\ Vasilenko (Dialogue-Siberia) -- Financial Inspector
+\medskip
+
+There was strong interest from scientists and other specialists from
+other cities, including Omsk, Tomsk, Tjumen, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk to
+form local branches of SibTUG\@. The Siberian division of the Academy
+of Sciences comprises some 80 academic institutes of various scientific
+areas of interest (about 40 are in Novosibirsk). Many other
+organizations, such as publishing and printing houses, software and
+hardware firms, and so on from this region are interested in
+high-quality publication of scientific, educational and engineering
+literature.
+
+The Siberian Science and Education system has good connections with
+colleagues and centers in different countries. We also enjoy good
+cooperation with scientists from other republics of the former USSR,
+especially the Asian republics. As a result, we are not only focussing
+on Cyrillic versions of \TeX, but also on a whole rainbow of \TeX\
+possibilities.
+
+Because SibTUG is, naturally enough, the Siberian part of CyrTUG, we
+shall coordinate our efforts. Nevertheless, given our large region and
+poor connections (transport, mail, e-mail, etc.) with Moscow, we ask the
+\TeX\ world to contact us directly.
+
+From our side we shall support the \TeX\ community in your efforts to
+extend the use of \TeX\ and to include high-level software specialists
+in the process of producing new \TeX\ possibilities.
+
+The main problems for SibTUG and \TeX\ users in Siberia are:
+
+\medskip
+ -- the absence (in practice) of books on \TeX
+
+ -- the absence of good versions of \TeX
+
+ -- the absence of \TeX\ materials
+
+ -- poor communication between users
+
+ -- limited knowledge about happenings in the larger \TeX\ community
+\medskip
+
+We shall concentrate our efforts on solving these problems. We also
+want to give our users the opportunity to use Russian language \TeX\
+materials as well as materials on other languages of Siberian countries.
+So, our first steps will be to organize:
+
+\medskip
+ -- a library of \TeX\ materials (books, proceedings,
+ magazines, etc.)
+
+ -- a collection of \TeX\ software products and
+ demonstrate their capabilities
+
+ -- courses for different levels of users in Novosibirsk
+ and other Siberian cities
+
+ -- better communications between \TeX\ users inside
+ our region and beyond
+\medskip
+
+However, problems such as exchange of the rouble and other national
+concerns are currently hampering our efforts to acquire these materials
+in legal ways. We greatly appreciate any support and help from all
+sides as we address our primary needs, especially during our start-up
+period. In spite of these difficulties, we are determined to solve
+these problems, and offer our colleagues in other \TeX\ users groups to
+cooperate with us. For our part, we shall be very glad to return that
+help to the \TeX\ community also.
+
+On behalf of SibTUG,
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Dr.\ Anatoly L.\ Urvantsev \\
+ Chairman, SibTUG
+\end{flushright}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{ll}
+ Computing Center & Tel (3832) 350-454 \\
+ prosp.\ Lavrent'eva 6 & FAX (3832) 324-259 \\
+ Russia, 630090, Novosibirsk & E-mail \tt uran@isi.itfs.nsk.su \\
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+
+%% Reports on Meetings:
+
+\Section{Reports on Meetings}
+
+\subsection*{TUG '91: 15--18 July 1991
+ \hfill Dedham, Mass.}
+
+The 1991 Annual Meeting of the \TeX\ Users Group took place at the
+Dedham Hilton, just outside of Boston, Massachusetts; the theme was
+``\TeX\ Inroads into Publishing: Document Design, Production and
+Interchange.'' Judging by the number and diversity of presentations and
+attendees, this was a truly successful meeting. And as with all TUG
+meetings, there was a lot more than just publishing being discussed: new
+font and graphics packages and applications, and future directions of
+\TeX\ were also very much on people's minds.
+
+Each day was dedicated to a specific sub-theme, which made it easier for
+attendees to focus on their preferred areas of specialisation. In
+addition to some 193 people who registered for all four days, there were
+50 registrants who came specifically for the Monday program, 11 who came
+on Tuesday, and 6 on Wednesday.
+
+The meeting was launched with a provocative keynote address by Nico
+Poppelier of Elsevier Science Publishers (Holland). In all, there were
+28 presentations, 4 panel discussions, and 7 workshops, with the TUG
+Business Meeting, the Questions and Answers session, and an Historical
+Round Table also vying for everyone's attention.
+
+In 1992, the TUG Annual Meeting will be held in Portland, Oregon;
+Program Coordinator will be Mimi Lafrenz, with Doug Henderson, Helen
+Gibson and Ron Whitney on the Program Committee. After four years of
+working on TUG's Annual Meetings, I must confess to feeling a great
+sense of relief at handing over the task to a new Coordinator --- and I
+look forward to attending this year's meeting as a regular TUG member.
+See you all there!
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Christina Thiele\\
+ TUG'91 Program Coordinator
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+\subsection*{CsTUG: 18--20 Sept.\ 1991
+ \hfill Skalsk\'y Dv\accent23ur, Czech.}
+
+The 1991 meeting of the Czechoslovakian \TeX\ users took place in
+Skalsk\'y Dv\accent23ur, located to the southwest of Prague, surrounded
+by hills and forests, far away from the bustle of the big cities. It's
+just the right place to concentrate either on a typesetting system or on
+the outstanding Czechoslovakian beer.
+
+The \TeX{}-related portion (from September 18--20) of the Ninth Summer
+School on Computing Techniques in Physics, in which the meeting
+traditionally is embedded, presented papers on: new features of \TeX\
+v.\ 3, {\small SGML} in the publishing world and other {\small
+SGML}-related topics, \LaTeX\ and related software, \TeX\ and graphics,
+exchange of knowledge, experience, software within the \TeX\
+environment, and working with \MF\@.
+
+There were about 120 attendees, from Bulgaria, Finland, Germany,
+Hungary, Libya, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, USA, USSR (at that
+time)\footnote[1]{Tempus fugit.} and the UK. Because of the
+international audience the closing discussion about the needs in
+different Eastern countries was a very important topic. The people who
+had the problems and those who had the solutions were in the same room
+at the same time and were talking together. So the discussion was a
+great success.
+
+But one example of the importance of information in the Eastern European
+countries should be mentioned: the universities in Romania were forced
+to buy a commercial {\small DTP} system because \TeX\ was unknown there!
+And \TeX\ was what they were looking for.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Friedhelm Sowa\\
+ {\small DANTE} Treasurer
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+\subsection*{Euro\TeX 91: 23--25 Sept.\ 1991
+ \hfill Paris}
+
+The 6th European \TeX{} Conference was held in Paris' Latin Quarter last
+fall (Sept.~23--25) at the {\em Maison de la Mutualit\'e\/}, followed by
+a one-day GUTenberg Conference.\footnote[1]{Thanks to TUG, UK\TeX UG and
+GUTenberg for their financial help in sponsoring Eastern representatives
+to attend.} Highlights from the two conferences included four 4-day
+courses before the week of the meeting (a special mention should go to
+Philip Taylor and his course on advanced \TeX\ and \TeX\ macros), some
+two dozen presentations with simultaneous English-French translation,
+two panels, commercial sessions, a question period and parallel {\em
+Birds-of-a-Feather\/} sessions. There was a large exhibit area, and
+numerous terminals or stations for attendees to access the Internet.
+
+The social activities included a film shown on the G\'eode's 1,000 $m^2$
+hemispheric screen, dinner inside the {\em Cit\'e des Sciences\/} and a
+bus tour of Paris by night.
+
+And yet \dots\ these attractions weren't enough to convince people to
+come; perhaps it wasn't a good week, perhaps the fees were too high,
+perhaps there are now too many \TeX{} meetings around the world \ldots{}
+There were a little over one hundred attendees (coming from 21 nations),
+although we had planned for twice as many (based on attendance figures
+from previous GUTenberg annual meetings). In all, there was too much
+effort for too little return, and the GUTenberg Organizing and Program
+Committees are a little disappointed. All the ingredients for a
+successful meeting were present but \ldots{}
+
+The presentations have been published in a double-issue (nos.~10--11) of
+the {\sl Cahiers GUTenberg\/}; however, the two panels (\TeX\ in Europe,
+and \LaTeX\ V3) and the BoFs were not included.
+
+In conclusion, as a \AllTeX{} user, I can say that I was satisfied;
+however, as manager of the local users group, I was also quite
+disappointed.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Bernard {\sc Gaulle}\\
+ GUTenberg President \\
+ TUG VP for French-Speaking Users
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+%% Special def from Denis Megevand for 1992 EuroTeX meeting logo:
+
+\def\TeCH{{\rm T\kern-.1667em\lower.7ex\hbox{E}\kern-.125em{\sf CH}}}
+
+\subsection*{\TeCH'92: 16--18 June 1992
+ \hfill Les Diablerets, Switz.}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \large\sl Call for Papers --- \normalsize\bf Deadline Extended!
+\end{center}
+
+The 1992 GUTenberg meeting will be held in Les Diablerets, Switzerland
+and will be organized by the Observatory of Geneva.
+
+Deadline for the {\bf Call for Papers} has been extended to {\bf 15
+April 1992}. The conference will address the problems of \TeX's social
+environment at the support and training levels, and the use of \TeX\ in
+non-scientific applications. Of course, more general \TeX\ and {\small
+DTP}-related subjects are also welcome. Send submissions and inquiries
+to {\tt megevand@scsun.unige.ch}
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Denis M\'egevand\\
+ Pr\'esident du comit\'e d'orgaanisation
+\end{flushright}
+
+
+\newpage
+
+\subsection*{TUG'92: 26--30 July 1992
+ \hfill Portland, Oregon}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \large\sl \TeX\ in Context:\\
+ Resources, Support Tools, and Comparative Studies
+\end{center}
+
+The thirteenth annual conference of the \TeX\ Users Group will be held
+in Portland, Oregon, USA. This is going to be an exciting week of
+lively discussion and informative presentations covering a broad range
+of subjects relating to the various uses of \TeX\ throughout the world.
+
+The developing technologies that supplement the power of \TeX\ ---
+fonts, graphics, format macros, and archives --- will be explored in
+presentations followed by question and answer sessions. Ever-popular
+workshops will be run several times each, to ensure the possibility of
+participation.
+
+Panel discussions following themes of the presentations will address
+fonts, graphics, and include a special discussion on archives and the
+tremendous information available. The current 1991 Resource Directory
+will be just one of the many tools explored and explained.
+
+The recently restored Benson Hotel in downtown Portland has agreed to
+host the conference and meetings at a rate close to 50\% of their
+regular price. The Benson was the only hotel willing to allow more than
+one person in each room at the same base price. So don't be overcome by
+the beauty of this old charmer; it really was the best deal we could
+muster. If you want accommodations for less than the \$89 standard
+rate, they will be available, in limited supply, at a nearby inn. The
+Program Committee is looking into local universities for possible
+housing.
+
+A new feature this year is the all-volunteer squad of assistants ready
+to help with information on anything about the program. If you would
+like to help with this year's program, please indicate your ideas on the
+conference registration form.
+
+For families and friends, we will have some organized adventures running
+concurrently with the meetings. Doug Henderson is organizing a
+fund-raising bowling tournament. There will be many things to see and
+do in Portland. See the conference brochure for more details, due in
+your mailbox in February.
+
+One last event that bears mentioning is the Mt.\ Hood Festival of Jazz,
+beginning Friday, July 31st and continuing through Sunday, August 2nd.
+Tickets will be made available through TUG\@. Please mark your
+registration form if you are interested.
+
+Members of the Program Committee for TUG'92 include: Helen Gibson, Doug
+Henderson, and Ron Whitney.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Mimi Jett\\
+ TUG'92 Program Coordinator
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Summaries of July '91 Board and Exec. Comm. meetings (pp.23-26):
+
+\Section{TUG Board Activities}
+
+\subsection*{Summary of Board Meeting\footnote[1]{[These reports were
+ prepared with the assistance of David Kratzer and Regina
+ Girouard --Ed.]}}
+
+{\small \baselineskip=11pt
+The TUG Board of Directors met for 2 days before the 1991 Annual
+Meeting, 13--14 July 1991, at Dedham, Massachusetts. Board members who
+were present all or part of the two days included Nelson Beebe, Barbara
+Beeton, Lance Carnes, Malcolm Clark, Allan Dyer, Bernard Gaulle, Regina
+Girouard, Roswitha Graham, Alan Hoenig, Hope Hamilton, Doug Henderson,
+Patrick Ion, David Kellerman, David Kratzer, Joachim Lammarsch, Kees van
+der Laan, Pierre MacKay, Craig Platt, and Christina Thiele. Also
+present was Ron Whitney, TUG's Technical Director/Business Manager.
+
+Board members not able to attend were: Bart Childs, John Crawford, David
+Fuchs, and Dean Guenther.
+
+During this meeting, some 43 motions were discussed and voted upon; the
+main issues are presented here. In keeping with a decision made at the
+March board meeting [summary in TTN 0,0], we are publishing this summary
+of the meeting minutes for the membership of TUG so that you may be
+aware of the work being done by TUG\@.
+
+Malcolm Clark was elected Interim President, to serve from January 1,
+1992 through the end of 1992. The Board elected the following from its
+members to serve as interim officers: Christina Thiele as Interim
+Vice-President and Secretary, and Allan Dyer as Interim Treasurer. The
+latter two officers will serve until replacement appointments are made
+by the newly elected board.
+
+The President, Nelson Beebe, was directed to make an offer of employment
+to Ron Whitney, to provide for a formal agreement between Ron and TUG\@.
+
+The need for a Technical Council has been apparent for a few years now
+and the Long Range Planning Committee (David Kellerman, Chair) was
+instructed to formulate the initial charter for the Technical Council.
+
+Malcolm Clark believed the need for a specific European Coordinator is
+no longer there, so the Board voted to abolish the position that Malcolm
+has held, and added a note of appreciation for the work that he has
+done.
+
+A budget for 1992 had not be developed so the Executive Committee was
+charged with coming up with one in the months following the July board
+meeting. A number of budget-related items were discussed.
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item In an effort to better distribute funds, the TUG Office will
+ modify their procedures to move toward fund accounting procedures.
+
+ \item It was agreed that a maximum of \$40.00 should be allocated to
+ each board member without e-mail access to gain that access,
+ thereby allowing them to participate in board-related business.
+
+ \item An adverse reserve fund (initial amount of \$50,000) will be
+ established for the specific purpose of funding TUG's
+ liabilities in the event of an unforeseen and major catastrophic
+ financial event.
+
+ \item A motion to cap travelling scholarships and contributions to
+ other societies at \$4,000 failed; a subsequent motion to include
+ this amount in the 1992 budget was passed.
+
+ \item Committees requiring funding must now submit a budget to the
+ TUG Office, for approval by the board.
+
+ \item An effort will be made to receive additional funds for certain
+ projects, such as \TeX hax, the \LaTeX3 project, and others. The
+ TUG Office was directed to establish restricted funds for such
+ projects.
+\end{itemize}
+
+The board adopted a policy stating that it was in favour of reciprocal
+membership arrangements between TUG and other user groups; interested
+groups should submit proposals to the TUG Office.
+
+The board asserted its intentions to continue using terms associated
+with \TeX\ and \MF, as has been done for at least 14 years (e.g., {\tt
+dvi}, {\tt tfm}, \TeX, etc.). The issue arose out of examples of the
+use by other groups of the letters ``dvi'' for either their group's
+names or products. It was deemed necessary for TUG to declare the
+long-standing and specific use of ``dvi'' for ``Device Independent'',
+and its integral use within the \TeX-using community. On the related
+matter of copyright, it was decided that TUG would adopt an appropriate
+form of the new general public license as the copyright license for TUG
+documents.
+
+A Site Selection Committee was named, to select the 1992 site and to
+draft guidelines for the selection of future sites. Members of the
+committee are: Bernard Gaulle, Mimi Lafrenz, Christina Thiele, and Ron
+Whitney.
+
+Draft guidelines on the Knuth Scholarship were accepted; Barbara Beeton
+will serve as board liaison between the Knuth Scholarship Committee and
+the board. Chris Rowley, David Salomon, and Nico Poppelier were
+appointed as the core of the Knuth Scholarship Committee (Chris Rowley,
+Chair) for the period 1991--1992; Linda Williams, the most recent
+previous Scholar, was appointed for a term of one year.
+
+To defend \TeX\ against misrepresentation, the Board will offer a
+\$16.00 reward for the first person pointing out a {\em published\/}
+possible misrepresentation of \TeX\ and reporting it to the TUG Office.
+
+The board approved the following policies on attendance at official
+meetings: all TUG members may attend board meetings; all board members
+may attend Executive Committee meetings.
+
+The TUG Office has been authorized to maintain a file of certified
+statements containing a minimum set of information on various \TeX\
+implementations so that purchasers may verify that a particular \TeX\
+system has measured up to approved standards. Vendors will be
+encouraged to state in their ads that the certified statements are on
+record in the TUG office.
+
+There was much discussion about the new election procedures which will
+cause all members of the Board of Directors to be elected by the TUG
+membership. The procedures outlined in TTN 0,0 were adopted; by the
+time you read this, the results will be known. [See {\sl Election
+Results\/} elsewhere in this issue -- Ed.]
+
+The Board adopted the following Mission Statement for TUG, following
+lengthy discussions of a draft proposal from the Mission Statement
+Committee (Christina Thiele, Chair):
+
+\medskip
+The \TeX\ Users Group (TUG) provides leadership
+
+\begin{enumerate}
+ \item to encourage and expand the use of \TeX, \MF, and
+ related systems
+ \item to ensure the integrity and portability of \TeX, \MF,
+ and related systems
+ \item to foster innovation in high-quality electronic document
+ preparation
+\end{enumerate}
+
+Since there is now an organized users group in Japan, the head of this
+new users group will be invited to join the Board as a special
+vice-president.
+
+The positive response that the newsletter \TTN\ has received prompted
+the Board to authorize \$5,000 for another issue in 1991. [Due to TUG's
+financial siuation it was later decided not to publish another issue in
+1991 --Ed.]
+
+Other issues discussed included: the role of board liaison, special
+vice-presi\-dents, and ``porte-parole'' (spokesman for TUG), TUG's
+non-profit tax status, TUG's legal counsel, annual meetings outside of
+North America, responses to queries regarding \TeX's future, reports
+from various committees, reports from various user groups, operating
+procedures manual(s).
+
+\subsection*{Summary of Executive Committee Meeting}
+
+The Executive Committee held an evening meeting on 17 July 1991, during
+the 1991 Annual Meeting, at Dedham, Mass. The Executive Committee is
+made up of: Nelson Beebe (President), Malcolm Clark (1992 President),
+Christina Thiele (Interim Vice-President and Secretary), Allan Dyer
+(Interim Treasurer), Alan Hoenig (invited by Nelson Beebe), and Ron
+Whitney (Technical Director/Business Manager), a non-voting member.
+
+Others present included Doug Henderson (recording secretary), and
+several board members.
+
+During this approximately 4-hour meeting, the following major agenda
+areas were discussed: short-term requirements and issues raised during
+the general meeting, reports from various committees, and the TUG
+budget.
+
+Charlotte Laurendeau will be leaving the TUG office after several years
+of service to TUG; the Executive Committee approved the recognition of
+her service by giving her a gift during the closing session of the
+meeting.
+
+Ron Whitney, who is TUG's Technical Director/Business Manager, has been
+serving TUG since the departure of Ray Goucher but his role has not been
+defined clearly. Several issues were discussed and the Executive
+Committee gave Ron authority to deal with many items which came up
+during the Board meeting, the general meeting, and the Executive
+Committee meeting.
+
+The Executive Committee will meet in the fall to finalize the budget and
+handle some of the items that were put on hold at this meeting.
+
+In the future, when \TUB\ is ready for distribution, the TUG Office will
+make shipments to trans-Atlantic destinations before domestic mailing.
+
+Mimi Lafrenz was named the 1992 Program Coordinator. Mimi has also
+volunteered to devote a significant amount of work on the \LaTeX3
+project.
+
+The Publications Committee (Kees v.d.\ Laan, Chair) report included the
+following points: news items will be shifted from \TUB\ to \TTN, which
+will be published quarterly at 28 pages per issue (7 $\times$ 10in);
+\TUB\ will be limited to 800 pages per year; the resource directory,
+which all TUG members received, will also become an item for individual
+purchase; a catalogue of TUG items for sale should be produced; a \TUB\
+index should be prepared (based on author and keyword).
+
+The Membership Committee is considering a two-tier system for all new
+items where members would get better prices than non-members. Lacking a
+consensus, the Committee made no recommendation at this time. More
+effort will be put into retaining current and attracting new TUG
+members.
+
+The Local User Group Committee (Malcolm Clark, Chair) will be presenting
+its final report after the current meeting. Two preliminary reports had
+already been submitted to the board.
+
+The Site Selection Committee (Christina Thiele, Chair) selected
+Portland, Oregon as the site for the 1992 Annual Meeting, considering in
+part the following factors: proximity of a major airport, range of hotel
+choices, Univ.~of Oregon computer labs close by, a known concentration
+of \TeX\ users and companies. Another factor in the Committee's
+selection was the desire to move the meeting to a different geographic
+region.
+
+Marketing of TUG and its products was discussed. It was decided that a
+tentative budget allocation of \$20,000 be included in the 1992 budget.
+
+The Executive Committee directed Ron to look into reducing the prices
+for back issues of \TUB. Currently, old issues of \TUB\ are still
+available for \$17.00 each. When new user groups start up, TUG
+materials will be made available at nominal costs.
+
+The startup of a restricted fund for \TeX hax was approved. This would
+see monies allocated directly towards \TeX hax, both as a budget item
+and as a focus for contributions. The money so allocated may not be
+used for other purposes.
+
+There was discussion of starting up a similar restricted fund for
+research into \TeX\ extensions; the Executive Committee voted to
+postpone this move for future board discussion.
+
+The Executive Committee discussed the need for the annual meeting to
+break even rather than lose money. There will be a concerted effort to
+achieve this goal with the 1992 meeting.
+
+The newsletter, \TTN, should be budgeted for 4 issues at \$5,000 each in
+1992. Sponsorship was also discussed, and there was a consensus that
+\$500 be spent for design of the newsletter.
+
+By consensus, it was decided that a total of \$18,000 should be included
+in the 1992 budget for production of six issues of {\sl \TeX niques\/}.
+
+Other issues discussed included two-tier membership, a subscription
+category for \TUB, donations to TUG, producing an annual report, more
+input on the mission statement, having an open-ended business meeting,
+having the board reconvene after the business meeting, initiating a
+``reach-out'' component for new attendees at TUG meetings.
+\par}
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\begin{center} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
+ \begin{tabular}{||c||}
+ \multicolumn{1}{c}{\large\bf Next Board Meetings} \\
+ \hline
+ 15--16 February 1992, Aston University, UK \\ [2pt]
+ 25--26 July, at TUG'92, Portland, Oregon, USA \\
+ \hline
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Upcoming Events (p.27):
+
+\Section{Upcoming Events}
+
+\begin{center}
+%{\tabcolsep3pt
+{\tabcolsep3pt \setbox 0 = \hbox {\bf 24--27 March }
+% fix for underfull hboxes suggested by Phil Taylor---cjc, 1992.2.27
+\dimen 0 = \hsize
+\advance \dimen 0 by -6\tabcolsep
+\advance \dimen 0 by -\wd 0
+\advance \dimen 0 by -4.8 cm
+%\begin{tabular}{p{2cm}p{4.8cm}p{4.5cm}}
+\begin{tabular}{p{\wd 0}p{4.8cm}p{\dimen 0}}
+\hline
+\bf 23 March & {\bf TUG\ts Knuth\ts Scholarship.}\nl
+ Deadline for receipt of sub\-mis\-sions.
+ & TUG Office\nl
+ {\tt tug@math.ams.com} \\
+\hline
+\bf 24--27 March
+ & {\sc dante} conference in Hamburg.
+ & Reinhard~Zierke or
+ Gerhard Friesland-K\"opke\nl
+ {\tt dante92@informatik.uni-\nl
+ hamburg.de} \\
+\hline
+\bf 7--10 April & EP'92: ``Electronic Publishing, Document
+ Manipulation, and Typography.''\nl
+ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.
+ & EP'92 --- D\'ep.\ d'In\-for\-ma\-ti\-que, IN
+Ecublens,
+ CH--1015 Lausanne, Switzerland\nl
+ {\tt ep92@eldi.epfl.ch} \\
+\hline
+\bf Spring & UK \TeX\ Users' Group:\nl
+ Tentative meeting scheduled
+ & Peter Abbott\nl
+ {\tt p.abbott@aston.ac.uk} \\
+\hline
+\bf May & CyrTUG: 1st Annual Meeting.\nl
+ Institute of High Energy Phys\-ics,
+ Protvino (near Moscow).
+ & Irina Makhovaya\nl
+ {\tt irina@mir.msk.su} \\
+\hline
+\bf 4 June & NTG meeting: ``Scientific Publishing and \TeX.''\nl
+ CWI, Kruislaan 413, Postbus 4079, 1009 AB Amsterdam.
+ & Gerard van Nes\nl
+ {\tt vannes@ECN.NL} \\
+\hline
+\bf 16--18 June & \TeCH'92, a GUTenberg conference:\ts
+ ``The Dark Side of \TeX''/\nl
+ ``La face cach\'ee de \TeX.''\nl
+ Les Diablerets, Switzerland.
+ & Denis M\'egevand\nl
+ {\tt megevand@scsun.unige.ch} \\
+\hline
+\bf June & UK \TeX\ Users' Group:\nl
+ ``Design Issues'': A visit to the
+ Dept.\ of Typo\-graphy, University
+ of Reading.
+ & Peter Abbott\nl
+ {\tt p.abbott@aston.ac.uk} \\
+\hline
+\bf 27--30 July
+ & {\bf TUG'92:\nl
+ ``\TeX\ in Context.''}\nl
+ Portland, Oregon.
+% [See back cover.]
+ & TUG Office\nl
+ {\tt tug@math.ams.com} \\
+\hline
+\end{tabular}
+}
+\end{center}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Obituaries (p.28)
+
+\Section{In Memoriam}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \large\bf Cathy Booth
+\end{center}
+
+Cathy Booth died on July 27th, 1991, of cancer of the kidneys. For the
+last year she fought the disease consistently, cheerfully and
+resolutely.
+
+Cathy was born on June 19th, 1952. She attended Exeter University,
+where she completed a BSc in Geography, and in 1984, she began work
+there as Computing Development Officer. One of her first
+responsibilities was \TeX.
+
+Cathy attended many of the \TeX\ conferences in Europe (in Strasbourg,
+Karlsruhe and Cork), as well as TUG meetings in North America (in
+Montreal and Stanford), and some of the GUTenberg meetings in Paris.
+But it will be the \TeX88 conference held at Exeter University with
+which she may be best remembered to many in the \TeX\ world. Cathy was
+the local organiser for this meeting: the huge success of the meeting
+must be attributed in no small way to her vivacity and personal
+magnetism.
+
+Cathy was an excellent teacher of \TeX. She taught a number of TUG
+courses on Beginning and Intermediate \TeX, and other \TeX\ courses at
+Exeter University. At the University, she also developed courses which
+united her skill with \TeX\ and her design abilities.
+
+Besides her other activities in \TeX\ and Electronic Publishing, she had
+been a member of the UK \TeX\ Users' Group committee since the
+foundation of the group, as well as a member of the committee of the BCS
+Electronic Publishing Specialist Group.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Malcolm Clark
+\end{flushright}
+
+\vfill
+
+\begin{center}
+ \large\bf Samuel B.\ Whidden
+\end{center}
+
+\noindent Sam Whidden, one of the founders of TUG, and its treasurer
+from 1980 through 1987, died unexpectedly on October 29, 1991. At the
+time of his death, he was a member of TUG's Long Range Planning
+Committee.
+
+Sam was a long-time employee of the American Mathematical Society. He
+established the Society's information systems department in 1968, and
+was a champion of in-house composition of AMS publications, leading this
+function from the status of research project to a full production
+operation. He quickly saw the need for \TeX{} users to band together
+for mutual support, and was instrumental in arranging for the first
+meeting at Stanford in 1980. Sam left regular employment at the Society
+in 1989, but continued as a consultant.
+
+\begin{flushright}
+ Barbara Beeton
+\end{flushright}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Cover 3 (Table of Contents):
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\begin{center}
+ {\Sectionfont \TeX{} and TUG NEWS\\
+ \medskip
+ Table of Contents}
+\end{center}
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\contentsline {section}{{\it Editorial}}{1}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{First TUG Election by Mail}{2}
+\contentsline {section}{Announcement: Donald E.\ Knuth Scholarship for
+ 1992}{3}
+\contentsline {section}{What is the \LaTeX3 Project?\\
+ \indent {\em Malcolm Clark}}{4}
+\contentsline {section}{The \LaTeX3 Project Fund\\
+ \indent {\em Frank Mittelbach and Chris Rowley}}{5}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{Scientific Publishing in Mexico\\
+ \indent {\em Kurt Bernardo Wolf}}{7}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{Typographer's Inn\\
+ \indent {\em Peter Flynn}}{12}
+\contentsline {section}{New Publications}{14}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{``Hey --- it works!''}{}
+\contentsline {subsection}{The Cauchy Integral {\em Claudio Beccari}}{15}
+\contentsline {subsection}{Dealing with Very Long Paragraphs {\em Peter
+ Schmitt}}{15}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{\AllTeX\ News}{}
+\contentsline {subsection}{I\LaTeX\ {\em Joachim Schrod}}{16}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{News from Around \ldots}{}
+\contentsline {subsection}{CyrTUG {\em Irina Makhovaya}}{17}
+\contentsline {subsection}{SibTUG {\em Dr.\ Anatoly L.\ Urvantsev}}{18}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{Reports on Meetings}{}
+\contentsline {subsection}{TUG'91 {\em Christina Thiele}}{19}
+\contentsline {subsection}{CsTUG {\em Friedhelm Sowa}}{20}
+\contentsline {subsection}{Euro\TeX91 {\em Bernard Gaulle}}{20}
+\contentsline {subsection}{\TeCH'92 {\em Denis M\'egevand}}{21}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{TUG'92: \TeX\ in Context\\
+ \indent {\em Mimi Lafrenz}}{22}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{TUG Board Activities}{}
+\contentsline {subsection}{Summary of Board Meeting}{23}
+\contentsline {subsection}{Summary of Executive Committee Meeting}{25}
+\smallskip
+\contentsline {section}{Upcoming Events}{27}
+\contentsline {section}{In Memoriam}{28}
+
+\vspace{2pc}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \bf Volume 1, No.\ 1, 1992
+\end{center}
+
+\newpage
+
+
+%% Cover 4 (TUG '92 promo):
+\pagestyle{empty}
+
+\begin{center}
+ \huge\sf \TeX\\
+ \huge\sf in Context:\\
+ \Large\sf Resources, Support Tools,\\
+ \Large\sf and Comparative Studies\\
+ \mbox{}\\
+ \Large July 26 to 30, 1992\\
+ \Large Portland, Oregon\\
+ \Large\bf 13th Annual \TUG\ Meeting\\
+\end{center}
+
+The 1992 \TUG\ Conference will focus on the \TeX\ resources environment,
+on the tools used to support \TeX, and on comparing and understanding
+the interaction of the various elements within the \TeX\ world as well
+as with external products.
+
+During four information-packed days, we'll delve into the use of front
+ends for \TeX, ways of including graphics in \TeX\ documents, how to
+export \TeX\ output to other graphics programs, comparisons of various
+personal computer implementations of \TeX, network access and resources,
+educational issues, and translation between \TeX\ and word-processors.
+
+Mark your calendars and join us in Portland, the home of 20-pound salmon
+and 20-story buildings. Ride light rail trains over cobblestone
+streets, ski Mt.\ Hood and attend the symphony in the same day --- even
+in July! Of special interest to TUG Meeting attendees may be the 11th
+Annual Mt.\ Hood Festival of Jazz to be held August 1st and 2nd in
+Gresham, Oregon, a suburb of Portland.
+
+We'll meet and stay at the Benson Hotel, a registered historic landmark
+recently restored to its former grandeur of the early 1900s. Special
+TUG rates: \$89/night (available until 26 June only).
+
+For a complete visitors' guide, {\sl The Portland Book\/}, call the
+Portland Visitors' Center at (800) 345-3214.
+
+\begin{center}
+ \begin{tabular}{llll}
+ \multicolumn{2}{l}{\bf Program Coordinator:}
+ & \multicolumn{2}{l}{\bf Program Committee} \\
+ & Mimi Jett $\diamond$ \sl ETP Services Co.
+ & & Helen Gibson $\diamond$ \sl Wellcome Institute \\
+ \multicolumn{2}{l}{\bf For more information:}
+ & & Doug Henderson $\diamond$ \sl Blue Sky Research \\
+ & \tt tug@math.ams.com
+ & & Ron Whitney $\diamond$ \sl \TUG \\
+ \end{tabular}
+\end{center}
+
+\vspace{1pc}
+
+\noindent Watch your mail and future issues of \TUB\ and \TTN\ for
+more details. Or contact the TUG Office. Meet you in Portland!
+
+\end{document}
+
+%% END OF FILE