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               <h1><a name="doctitle">Formatting information</a></h1>
               <h2>A beginner's introduction to typesetting with
                  <span class="LATEX">L<span class="A">A</span><span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span></span></h2>
               <h3>Appendix B&nbsp;&#8212;  Users Group membership</h3>
               <h3>Peter Flynn</h3>
               <h4>Silmaril Consultants<br>Textual Therapy Division
               </h4><br>v. 3.6 (March 2005)
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               <p>This edition of <cite>Formatting
                     	  Information</cite> was prompted by the generous help I
                  	have received from <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> users too numerous to mention
                  	individually. Shortly after TUGboat published the November
                  	2003 edition, I was reminded by a spate of email of the
                  	fragility of documentation for a system like <span class="LATEX">L<span class="A">A</span><span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span></span> which is
                  	constantly under development. There have been revisions to
                  	packages; issues of new distributions, new tools, and new
                  	interfaces; new books and other new documents; corrections to
                  	my own errors; suggestions for rewording; and in one or two
                  	cases mild abuse for having omitted package X which the author
                  	felt to be indispensable to users. &para;&nbsp;I am grateful as always to the people who sent me
                  	corrections and suggestions for improvement. Please keep them
                  	coming: only this way can this book reflect what people
                  	want to learn. The same limitation still applies, however: no
                  	mathematics, as there are already a dozen or more excellent
                  	books on the market&nbsp;&#8212; as well as other online
                  	documents&nbsp;&#8212; dealing with mathematical typesetting in
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                  	capable of. &para;&nbsp;The structure remains the same, but I have revised and
                  	rephrased a lot of material, especially in the earlier
                  	chapters where a new user cannot be expected yet to have
                  	acquired any depth of knowledge. Many of the screenshots have
                  	been updated, and most of the examples and code fragments have
                  	been retested. &para;&nbsp;As I was finishing this edition, I was asked to review
                  	an article for <cite><a href="http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/" name="C3">The Prac<span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Journal</a></cite>, which
                  	grew out of the Practical <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Conference in 2004. The
                  	author specifically took the writers of documentation to task
                  	for failing to explain things more clearly, and as I read
                  	more, I found myself agreeing, and resolving to clear up some
                  	specific problems areas as far as possible. It is very
                  	difficult for people who write technical documentation to
                  	remember how they struggled to learn what has now become a
                  	familiar system. So much of what we do is second nature, and a
                  	lot of it actually has nothing to do with the software, but
                  	more with the way in which we view and approach information,
                  	and the general level of knowledge of computing. If I have
                  	obscured something by making unreasonable assumptions about
                  	<em>your</em> knowledge, please let me know so
                  	that I can correct&nbsp;it. 
                  <p>Peter Flynn is author of <cite><a href="bibliography.html#htmlbook" name="C4">The HTML Handbook</a></cite> and <cite><a href="bibliography.html#sgmltools" name="C5">Understanding SGML and XML Tools</a></cite>, and editor of <cite><a href="http://www.ucc.ie/xml/" name="C6">The XML FAQ</a></cite>.
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                        <td class="chapno">B</td>
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                  <h1><span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Users Group membership
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         <p>The <a name="TUG" class="acroref"><span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Users Group</a>&nbsp;(<small>TUG</small>) was
            founded in 1980 for educational and scientific purposes: to
            provide an organization for those who have an interest in
            typography and font design, and are users of the <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span>
            typesetting system invented by Donald Knuth.
            TUG is run by and for its members and represents the interests
            of <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> users worldwide.
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               receive <cite><a href="bibliography.html#tugboat" name="C43">TUGboat</a></cite>,
               the journal of the <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Users Group, the <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> Live software
               distribution (a runnable <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> system), and the <small><a href="chapter5.html#CTAN" class="acroref" name="A299" title="Comprehensive Archive Network">CTAN</a></small> software distribution (containing most
               of the <small><a href="chapter5.html#CTAN" class="acroref" name="A300" title="Comprehensive Archive Network">CTAN</a></small> archive).
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            <p>In addition, TUG members vote in TUG elections, and
               receive discounts on annual meeting fees, store purchases, and
               TUG-sponsored courses. TUG membership (less benefits) is
               tax-deductible, at least in the USA.  See the TUG Web site for
               details.
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            <p>Please see the forms and information at <a href="http://www.tug.org/join.html"><tt>http://www.tug.org/join.html</tt></a>.  You can join
               online, or by filling out a paper form. The NTG (Dutch) and
               UKTUG (United Kingdom) <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span> user groups have joint membership
               agreements with TUG whereby you can receive a discount for
               joining both user groups.  To do this, please join via <a href="http://www.ntg.nl/newmember.html"><tt>http://www.ntg.nl/newmember.html</tt></a> (the NTG
               membership page) or <a href="http://uk.tug.org/Membership/"><tt>http://uk.tug.org/Membership/</tt></a> (the UKTUG
               page), respectively, and select the option for joint
               membership.
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            <p>Each year's membership entitles you to the software and
               TUGboat produced for that year (even if it is produced in a
               subsequent calendar year, as is currently the case with
               TUGboat).  You can order older issues of TUGboat and <span class="TEX">T<span class="E">E</span>X</span>
               memorabilia through the TUG store (<a href="http://www.tug.org/store"><tt>http://www.tug.org/store</tt></a>).
            </p>
            <p>The current TUG membership fee is $65 (US) per year
               for individuals and $35 for students and seniors. Add
               $10 to the membership fee after May 31 to cover
               additional shipping and processing costs. The current rate for
               non-voting subscription memberships (for libraries, for
               example) is $85. The current institutional rate is
               $500, which includes up to seven individual
               memberships.
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            <p>TUG uses your personal information only to mail you
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               official ballots. Also, if you give explicit agreement, we may
               incorporate it into a membership directory which will be made
               available only to TUG members.
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