diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_4/editor.tex')
-rw-r--r-- | usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_4/editor.tex | 92 |
1 files changed, 92 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_4/editor.tex b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_4/editor.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..316841d0a2 --- /dev/null +++ b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_4/editor.tex @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +\title{Editorial} +\begin{article} +\section{Cathy Booth memorial} +As explained in the last issue of \BV, the committee of \ukt\ has been +working to honour the memory of Cathy Booth in its various activities +and donations to good causes. Continuing an occasional tradition +started by Malcolm Clark, we decided to award a prize in Cathy's name +at this year's \TeX\ User Group conference. At the meeting a poll of +delegates was arranged, and Donald Knuth was also asked to nominate +his favourite papers. The first choice was overwhelmingly for the work +of T.~V.~Raman, who presented a paper, and demonstrated his audio +`views' of \TeX\ documents. For anyone who has met Raman, or +experienced his work, this will come as no surprise --- his system for +speaking mathematical formulae (and any other \TeX\ construct!) is an +incredible achievement, recognized by the national award for his +doctoral thesis last year. Raman (and his guide-dog Aster) received a +remarkable standing ovation when the Cathy Booth prize was awarded at +TUG95, for what one voter aptly described as his `contribution to +humanity'. We are very pleased to be allowed to reprint his paper from +the conference preprints in this issue of \BV. + +\section{Looking for a new captain of \BV} +At the 1995 meeting of the \TeX\ User's Group, I was elected as +Secretary of the group by the Board of Directors. \ukt\ members who +are also members of TUG will be aware that the group has been going +through rough times recently, with its publication program adrift, and +its relationship with other groups being questioned. Since I want to +give my best effort to getting TUG back on its feet, and working for +the good of all \TeX\ users, I have very reluctantly decided that I +will have to give up work for the \UKTUG, including the editorship of +\BV. A replacement is being sought --- if you think you can do it, +let's hear from you. The most important criterion is that you be able +to garner 24 pages of interesting material every other month --- all +sorts of people can help with the typesetting, proofing, production +etc, but it is the firm overall control that we want. + +\section{Corrigendum} + +In \BV~5.3 Rosemary Bailey gave a list of the members of the committee +of \ukt\ in 1991--1992. Unfortunately, she omitted the names +of two members: Angus Duggan and David Osborne. She has asked the \BV\ +editor to pass on her apologies. + +\section{Words from the Treasurer} +Peter Abbott asks me to remind/inform members of the following points: +\subsection{Book discounts} +Any book from the Addison-Wesley Complete Computer Science +catalogue may be ordered from \uktug. The published price should +be discounted by 10\% rounded to the nearest 5p. If you are unsure +please let me know the ISBN and I will quote a price. +A-W books are delivered direct so I would appreciate notification +of delivery. + +Books from O'Reilly are as listed on the sheet included in \BV\ from +time to time. O'Reilly books +are forwarded by me so again I would appreciate notification of receipt. + +Cheques should be made payable to `UKTUG' and sent to +Peter Abbott (see banner for address, phone etc). + +\subsection{4allTeX CD-ROM 3rd edition} + +This newly released CD is available for \pounds 25. It now has +\emph{two} CDs, the latest em\TeX, and more goodies than you can imagine. +A few copies of the 2nd edition are on sale for \pounds5. + +\subsection{Em\TeX\ new release} + +By the time you read this you should have received the update mentioned +in the last edition of \BV. Please contact me if you paid the +\pounds 30 in 1995 or the \pounds 5 for the update service, and have +not received your disks. + +\end{article} +\endinput +\section{Overload} +Any editor of a publication about \TeX\ meets the problems of +conflicting macros more than most people; curiously enough, no issue +of \BV\ has yet proved impossible to run in one go. But this time it +came close; for Haverkort's packages alone, it took me several hours +to work out which packages to omit (like \LaTeX\ color), and where to +cheat. At the last moment, Rowley's article needed \texttt{amsmath}, +which then fought with Bailey's work\ldots The fact that \LaTeXe\ did +not trivially permit me to load \texttt{amsmath} for the duration of +one paper only (it used to be easy in the days of \LaTeX209) is a +cause of irritation. Recalling observations in the last \BV, and this, +about the direction \LaTeX{} is taking, I take the opportunity to +commend to \ukt\ members a paper by Matt Swift on `Modularity in \LaTeX' +which will appear in TUGboat 16.3 --- whatever you think of his +suggestions, it is way past time to stop relying on just hope and +goodwill as methods of preventing macro clashes. + |