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+\title{Editorial: what's this issue all about?}
+\providecommand\FAQ{\acro{FAQ}}
+\begin{article}
+\vspace*{-0.5\baselineskip}
+Your committee has long aimed to ensure that the \acro{UK} makes a
+valuable contribution to the world of \TeX: for example, it is
+possible to claim that the \acro{UK} \TeX{} archive led the world in
+comprehensive provision, and members of your committee continue to
+take active part in maintaining the internationally-linked \acro{CTAN}
+system of archives.
+
+The idea of maintaining the \acro{UK}'s profile motivated us to
+produce the `Frequently Asked Questions' (\FAQ) issues that appeared
+as `Christmas Editions' of Baskerville for 1994 and 1995. At the time
+that we decided to prepare the 1994 \FAQ{}, we had noted the
+great value of the \acro{NTG}'s 4All\TeX{} which had at the time just
+been released. We knew then that we could not hope to produce a
+\CDROM{} in the short term, but we agreed at the time that a similar
+disc, targeted at Unix\textsuperscript{TM} systems would be a useful thing
+to have. The rest is history (and is well explained in the
+documentation of the \CDROM{}, that constitutes the only `article' of
+this issue of \BV).
+
+Members will recall that we offered the first version of this \CDROM{}
+to them, for sale. Considering the economics of the matter, and given
+an assurance that useful software for other platforms (notably
+Microsoft- and \acro{OS}/2-based \acro{PC}s and Macintoshes) could be
+included on the disc, your committee decided to circulate every member
+with a copy in lieu of two issues of \BV.
+
+I would welcome feedback from members on their views of the value of
+the offering, and what (if anything) we might do to improve it. I
+continue to maintain the \FAQ{}: would members welcome its
+republication, perhaps as Baskerville Vol.~7 No.~6\Dash nominally the
+1997 Christmas edition?
+
+As I mentioned in a brief `post-editorial' in Baskerville Vol.~6
+No.~4, the extreme lateness of that issue was almost exclusively my
+fault. As a result, this double issue is following very closely on
+the heels of the last, and Vol.~7 No.~1 is also in an advanced stage
+of preparation. We maintain the fond hope that we will have brought
+ourselves up-to-date before the end of 1997, but~\dots\ we continue to
+rely, to a large extent, on external sources of articles for \BV.
+Please do submit them to Sebastian Rahtz, as mentioned in the banner
+line of each issue of \BV!
+\end{article}