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+\documentclass{baskrep}
+\usepackage{foot}
+\usepackage{simpsons}
+\BASKvol{4}
+\BASKno{4}
+\begin{document}
+\vspace*{-1cm}
+\begin{multicols}{2}[\makeBSKtitle]
+\begin{raggedright}
+\tableofcontents
+\end{raggedright}
+\title{Editorial}
+\begin{article}
+\def\fortex{\leavevmode\lower.5ex\hbox{4}\kern-.1667em\TeX}
+\section{\BV\ articles needed}
+\BV\ has been getting good articles this year, and I am very grateful
+to all the contributors. But I need more! Please delight fellow \TeX\
+users with your words of wisdom.
+\emph{Please note the following schedule of copy deadlines}:
+
+\def\Thead#1{\makebox[1.7cm][c]{\rotatebox{30}{
+\parbox{2.4cm}{\raggedright #1}}}}
+\begin{quote}
+\begin{tabular}{llll}
+\em \rotatebox{30}{Issue}&
+\em \Thead{Submit material for publication}&
+\em \Thead{Submit last-minute notices}&
+\em \Thead{Anticipated posting date}\\
+4.5&Oct 17&Oct 24&Nov 10\\
+4.6&Dec 19&Dec 22&Jan 9\\
+\end{tabular}
+\end{quote}
+Please also note the changed email and paper mail addresses for the
+editor in the banner heading above.
+
+Each issue of \BV\ will have a special theme, although articles on any
+\TeX-related subject are always welcome. Contributions on the themes
+for the remainder of 1994 are eagerly solicited:
+\BV\ 4.5 will try and go beyond \TeX, to see what is on the
+horizon, and \BV\ 4.6 will be about font-encoding if past history is anything
+ to go by \ldots
+
+\subsection{\TeX\ goes CD-ROM}
+
+In the last \BV, the Dutch-produced \fortex\ CD was advertised, and
+shortly afterwards a box of them arrived in the UK. They were promptly
+snapped up by discerning members, and back-orders to Holland from
+around the world soon accounted for all the copies which were made.
+If you do manage to find one, it's a real treasure trove (you can see
+one of my `finds' later) of fonts, macros, programs, articles, all
+piled together moderately higgledy-piggledy. NTG and the \fortex\ team
+are to be enthusiastically thanked for this product. I couldn't get
+too excited about \fortex\ itself (it's a DOSsy shell for \TeX), but I
+have used the disk over and over again to find odd files. Are any \BV\
+readers who bought the CD willing to write a full review?
+
+If that wasn't enough, those of us who attended TUG94 were given
+another CD, `\TeX cetera', courtesy of Prime Time Freeware. This
+is an almost-complete copy of the CTAN archives as of mid June (they
+left out a few monolithic items like the Archimedes \TeX\ setup to
+make it fit a single disk), collected and compressed into (usually)
+meaningful bundles. They couldn't just dump the whole archive since a)
+its too big, and b) the ISO 9660 file system on the CD couldn't cope
+with the names and the level of subdirectories. This CD is a Really
+Useful Thing! I recommend all or any \TeX\ persons reading this to buy
+a copy now, and encourage Prime Time Freeware to issue regular
+editions. Details of suppliers are given in the regular section at the
+back of \BV.
+
+\subsection{The archive is dead, long live the archive\ldots}
+Later in this issue, Martyn Johnson and Robin Fairbairns explain why
+and how the UK's \TeX\ Archive has moved to Cambridge. I join them in
+a tremendous vote of thanks to Peter Abbott for the way he stood
+behind the archive for years at Aston; without him we would have none
+of today's fancy CTANs. At the same time, I would like to record again
+the hallowed names of those pioneer archivists who worked so hard on
+the old archive: Adrian Clark, Malcolm Clark, Brian Hamilton Kelly,
+Niel Kempson, David Osborne, Sebastian Rahtz, Chris Rowley and Phil
+Taylor. David's (ongoing) work on the
+\texttt{uktex} and \texttt{texhax} bulletins
+also deserves the fullest recognition here.
+
+\subsection{Colophon}
+
+This issue of the journal was created entirely with the new standard
+\LaTeX\ and printed on a Hewlett Packard LaserJet~4.
+\BV\ is set in ITC New Baskerville Roman and Gill Sans,
+with Computer Modern Typewriter
+for literal text. Production and distribution was undertaken in
+Cambridge by Robin Fairbairns and Jonathan Fine.
+\end{article}
+\end{multicols}
+\input{siep}
+\Dings
+\MakeShortVerb{|}
+\input{bailey2}
+\DeleteShortVerb{|}
+\MakeShortVerb{+}
+\input{fine}
+\input{taylor}
+\input{chen}
+\DeleteShortVerb{+}
+\input{goossens}
+\input{ntuf}
+\input{clark}
+\input{bailey}
+\MakeShortVerb{|}
+\input{ctanuk}
+\DeleteShortVerb{|}
+\Dings
+\input{consult}
+
+\end{document}
+