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+\documentclass[fleqn]{baskerville}
+
+%\def\dings{\par\hrule\par}
+%\let\Dings\dings
+
+\BASKvol{7}
+\BASKno{1}
+\BASKed*{Kaveh Bazargan}% * for Guest editor
+\BASKyear{1997}
+\BASKmonth{September}
+% Things this paper definitely needs
+%\usepackage{xspace}
+\usepackage{fancyvrb,amstext}
+%\newcommand\ftp{\textsf{ftp}\xspace}
+%\DeclareRobustCommand\cs[1]{\texttt{\char`\\#1}}
+%
+%\def\url#1{\texttt{#1}}
+
+%\def\LyX{L\kern-.1667em\lower.25em\hbox{Y}\kern-.125emX\spacefactor1000}%
+
+\begin{document}
+
+ \begin{frontmatter}
+ \section{Editorial}
+We had fun trying to output this issue together. Because of the very nature
+of Baskerville, being written by the {\TeX}perts, and pushing {\TeX} to its
+limits, it is not the simplest publication to handle. Now we all like to do
+things in the most elegant way possible but, having run a production
+environment for a few years, we have learned to use the quick and dirty
+method when it works. I thought some notes on the production of this issue
+might be of interest.
+
+The work was done using Textures on a Power Computing Macintosh clone. The
+initial problem came from (of all places) fonts. Textures uses a system of
+font management different to other machines (in itself no bad thing). A
+version of the Baskerville class file had to be chosen from the several that
+were offered/located (actually a \verb|diff| was performed on them and the most
+likely looking candiates were pinched into one big, mutated, class file---it
+worked, so who are we to complain). Things went smoothly until Sebastian's
+MetaPost article where the use of \verb|%*Font|, dvips specific, commands meant
+that the \verb|.eps| files needed to be modified to run under Textures. The
+following lines where added. (This is not a general solution and can be
+quite dangerous, but it was quick.)
+\begin{verbatim}
+/cmsy10 /CMSY10 def
+/cmr10 /CMR10 def
+/cmmi10 /CMMI10 def
+/fshow {exch findfont exch scalefont setfont
+ show}bind def
+\end{verbatim}
+What it does is to make the text \verb|cmr10|, etc active (so no phrases like
+`this figure uses cmr10' are allowed) and defines the \verb|fshow| command.
+Unfortunately you must have access to \emph{all} the fonts locally on your
+machine as they aren't embedded into the PostScript. Obviously we could have
+run MetaPost on the original source codes, by adding a \verb|prologues := 1;|
+command of course, but as both methods require us to change all the files
+and the latter requires an extra processing step from {\MP} so the first
+method was deemed acceptable.
+
+Jeff Kingston is the author of the batch-processing document formatter
+\textsf{lout}. His paper was written while he was on sabbatical in the
+\acro{UK}, and he was happy for it to be republished in \BV{} (after
+translation to \LaTeX{}, of course). The paper is over a year old,
+but Jeff welcomes comments (other than those of the form ``if you did
+this in \LaTeX{}, all your problems would go away''\dots).
+
+The paper on standard \acro{DTD}s was first published in \acro{EPSIG} News 5
+number 3, September 1992, pp\,10--19. Permission was obtained from
+the three authors to republish in \BV{}.
+
+Despite the extreme age of this paper it contains much useful comment
+and observation of the problems of encoding mathematical notations.
+Two appendices have been omitted: `Existing mathematical notations'
+and `Comparison between \acro{ISO} \acro{TR}~9573 and \acro{AAP} Math
+\acro{DTD}s'.
+
+
+Good luck to the next editor!
+ \end{frontmatter}
+
+\Dings
+
+ \input{lout}
+
+\Dings
+
+ \input{dtd}
+
+%\Dings
+
+ \input{ltour3}
+
+\Dings
+
+ \def\textdegree{$^{\circ}$}
+ \input{rahtz}
+
+% \input{lyx-intro}
+% \input{lyx}
+\vfill
+\Dings
+\vfill
+\clearpage
+
+ \input{regul}
+\end{document} \ No newline at end of file