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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 |