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+\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.
+