From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex | 86 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex (limited to 'usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex') diff --git a/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..5c6471f1f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/usergrps/uktug/baskervi/5_1/chair.tex @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ +\author{Chris Rowley} +\title{Chair's report on 1993--94} +\begin{Article} +First, a big thank you to all my colleagues on the Committee for all +their hard work during the last year. + +The notable innovation in 1994 has been the regular appearance of \BV. +Under the editorship of Sebastian Rahtz, and with Robin Fairbairns and +Jonathan Fine as publisher and distributor, issues of our newsletter +now reach members approximately every two months. It contains an +interesting variety of \TeX-related articles in addition to notices of +meetings and subscription forms. In my opinion, \BV\ is the best in +content and, by a wide margin, in timeliness of all the journals and +newsletters produced by \TeX\ user groups. Thanks to Sebastian, Robin +and Jonathan, and also to all those who have written items for \BV. + +Four meetings were held during the year. A meeting on `Front Ends to \TeX' was +held at Aston University on 20~October 1993, after the AGM. This was +organized by +Sebastian Rahtz and Peter Abbott, and was attended by about 30~people. Talks +and demonstrations were given by +Adrian Clark, Nikos Drakos, Jonathan Fine, Christopher Mabb and Sebastian +Rahtz. + +On 18~January 1994 a meeting was held at Rewley House in Oxford on the +theme `Choosing and Using PostScript Fonts with \TeX'. It was +organized by Alan Jeffrey, Sebastian Rahtz and Ian Hall, and was +attended by about 30~people. Talks were given by Angus Duggan, Alan +Jeffrey, Sebastian Rahtz and Will Shaman, and the meeting concluded +with a panel session. + +The big meeting of the year was the two-day meeting at the University +of Warwick: `\LaTeXe: the conference', on 21--22~March 1994. It was +organized by Malcolm Clark and me. The talks by members of +the \LaTeX3 Project Team (Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, Alan +Jeffrey, Frank Mittelbach and me) and Michel Goossens +introduced the audience of 80 to the philosophy and features of the +new standard version of \LaTeX, which had been released in beta-test +in December 1993 and whose first full release was in June 1994. + +On 11~July 1994 a training meeting `\LaTeX\ fonts and graphics: a hands-on +tutorial' was held in Cambridge. The organizers were Robin Fairbairns and +Jonathan Fine; the trainer was Alan Jeffrey, and extra training material was +provided by David Carlisle. The 13~participants found the meeting very +worthwhile: it was a pity that no more people wanted to attend. + +Thanks to all the organizers, speakers and trainers for making these meetings +possible. Especial thanks to Malcolm Clark, who so successfully was the local +organizer for the residential meeting. + +Other members of the Committee may have been less visible, but have +been doing sterling work in the background. For example, Peter Abbott +is to be congratulated on sorting out the Group's accounts and +financial position. Peter has also increased the range of services +available to members, who can now buy, in addition to a range of +books, disc sets of em\TeX{} and Oz\TeX{} at cost price, and the CDROM +of \TeX ware produced by the NTG. + +The `Aston Archive' has hitherto been strictly separated from the +\UKTUG. However, during the year it was brought to the Committee's +attention that the Archive might not be able to continue at Aston +University. The Committee felt that the Archive is a considerable +service to members of the \shortuk, and so took upon itself the +investigation of another suitable home for it. After the investigation +of several possible homes, a smooth transfer of the Archive to +Cambridge University has now been achieved. Thanks to Roger Needham at +Cambridge for authorizing this; and to Robin Fairbairns, Martyn +Johnson and Sebastian Rahtz for organizing the changeover and +maintaining this UK node of the CTAN. + +A brief history of the relationship between \TeX{} and Aston +university has already appeared in these annals but I should like to +formally record here the enormous debt of gratitude owed by this group +and the world-wide \TeX{} community to Peter Abbott for organising the +large range of activities that made Aston the centre of the \TeX{} +universe for many years. + +Finally, I should say something about TUG and our relationship with +it. As a result of discussions at the TUG meeting at Santa Barbara in +July 1994, the relationship between TUG and the various other user +groups has come under scrutiny. It is possible that the role of TUG +will change. There were further discussions at the Euro\TeX\ meeting +in Gda\'nsk in September 1994, but the picture is still far from +clear. I will keep members of \shortuk\ informed of developments. + +\end{Article} -- cgit v1.2.3