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   Volume 2, Number 4
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   October 1993
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\noindent \TTN\ is a newsletter for \TeX{} and \LaTeX{} users alike:
{\em a forum for exchanging information, tips and suggestions\/}; {\em
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Throughout the newsletter ``\TeX'' is understood to mean \TeX, \LaTeX,
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\Section{Editorial}

Another year is coming to a close, and plans for 1994 have to begin.
We have a new board coming on stream in January (see p.\ 20); sites
for future \tug\ meetings are being sought (p.\ 23); and we hope to
see you amongst the list of new or renewed members in the \TUG\ (1994
rates remain at '93 levels). Just before we leave 1993~\ldots\ {\bf 31
December 1993} is the new deadline for the A-in-\LaTeX\ contest (p.\
14), so do send in your entries!

But you don't have to wait till 1994 to use our new e-mail address!
In September, {\tt tug@tug.org} officially came on-line. The office
can be reached at:

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       E-mail:       & \tt tug@tug.org \\ [2pt]
   \hline 
       Phone number: & 805-963-1338 \\
       Fax number:   & 805-963-8358 \\ 
    \hline
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A correction for an item which I'd noted in my editorial of the last
issue: {\sl \TeX help: The On-Line \TeX\ Handbook\/} is a joint effort
by both Arvind Borde and Tom Rokicki. I only listed Arvind as author
--- my apologies for the oversight, Tom. Along with the correction,
Arvind sent the following additional information (see also p.\ 3):

{\small 
\begin{quote} \baselineskip=11pt
   \dots\ it's a hypertext guide to \TeX, \LaTeX\ and \AmSTeX\ that
   allows you to look up descriptions and definitions of commands
   on-line; it also contains discussions of typesetting topics. The
   initial release will run only on {\small DOS} machines, but {\small
   MS}-Windows and Unix versions are to follow. 

   \baselineskip=11pt
   We're hoping that this electronic guide will be found a useful tool
   by people who want to write \TeX\ but who don't have a printed
   manual on hand, or who want to look things up *fast*.
\end{quote}
}

Something very interesting happened earlier this month. The Goudy
Center, Rochester Institute of Technology, has been in touch with
\tug\ about courses which may be of interest to our members (see
Upcoming Events, p.\ 25). And it seems to me that there is potential
for a two-way interchange of expertise between this center, which is
in the School of Printing Management and Sciences, and our members,
with their knowledge and experience with \TeX. We'll keep you posted
on future developments.

I'm putting together some information on using \TeX\ for linguistics
typesetting. I'd like to get in touch with others who have some
expertise with fonts, writing specialised macros, encoding files with
all those wonderful ``design features'' which pepper linguistics
papers: tree diagrams, glosses, the phonetic alphabet (and any
others), pseudo-mathematical presentation of rules and principles, and
so on. There will be a meeting of the Linguistic Society of America in
Boston the first week of January, 1994. It is possible that the
conference organisers might be interested in a display of how \TeX\
can be used in the field of linguistics. As well, we may be able to
produce a useful little guide on the subject. If you'd like to join
forces (and maybe find a solution or two yourself!), drop me a line
at: {\tt cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca}, or call me at +1 613-727-0427
(Canada).

The \UK-TuG\ is planning a few meetings over the next few months. As we
went to press, no firm dates or locations had been set, but if you're
in the UK, there will be a meeting in either November or December, and
there's also a 2-day \LaTeX\ meeting planned for the spring. Stay
tuned both to this newsletter, and the Calendar section in upcoming
issues of {\sl TUGboat\/}.

Recently, Don Hosek polled readers of the {\tt TYPO-L} list about a
new magazine on typography he'd like to launch. The magazine will now
definitely go ahead. For more information, write to Don at 555
Guilford, Claremont, California 91711, or \fax\ him at +1
909-625-1342.

Electronic distribution of \ttn\ will now be taken care of by Michael
Doob; our thanks go to Chris Carruthers for having gotten the
distribution started. 

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   Christina Thiele\\ 
   Editor, \TTN
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      \TTN\ needs a new {\bf Editor}, as well as a {\bf Columnist}
      for the Upcoming Events page. \\ [6pt]
      {\bf The Editor} should have experience with \LaTeX, which
      is what \ttn\ uses; the editor should also be familiar with
      electronic submissions and correspondence, in order to 
      coordinate and manage the work done by contributors and
      the team of columnists already in place.
      The editor should have a broad awareness of \TeX\ and \tug\
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      have a strong sense of duty (!), even though this is an 
      entirely volunteer effort. An extensive network of contacts
      is a definite asset.\\ [4pt]
      {\bf The Upcoming Events Columnist} gathers information on
      activities related to TUG, to other \TeX\ user groups,
      and items which might interest readers of \ttn. The columnist
      then submits the finished column to the editor. \\ [6pt]
      If you are interested in either position, please contact
      the current editor at {\tt cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca}. \\ [4pt]  
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<                                      Peter Schmitt \\
<                            |schmitt@awirap.bitnet| \\
<              |a8131dal@awiuni11.edvz.univie.ac.at| \\

\books

> Arvind Borde and Tomas Rokicki:
    A User's Guide for \TeX Help; The On-Line \TeX\ Handbook

    Academic Press, 1993.
    v + 28pp. \ISBN 0-12-1176040-1.

  # This small booklet documents the \TeX Help program for {\small
    IBM PC} and compatible microcomputers.

> Arvind Borde:
    Mathematical \TeX\ by Example

    Academic Press, 1993.
    356pp. US\$19.95. \ISBN 0-12-117645-2.

  # As the title suggests, this book is an introduction to \TeX\ by
    means of examples. They almost entirely consist of pairs of pages: 
    one contains some piece of \TeX\ code (with explanations and 
    comments added via footnotes), while the other shows the output
    produced by this code.

> Nicholas J.\ Higham:
    Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences

    {\small SIAM} --- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 
    Philadelphia, 1992. xii + 241pp. US\$21.50. \ISBN 0-89871-314-5.

  # This book is intended for all authors of technical papers (and books) or
    talks, and covers virtually all relevant issues. The author discusses
    questions of style as well as practical matters.
    The use of computers in the publishing process --- including \TeX,
    of course --- is discussed in detail. An appendix contains a list of
    \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ symbols. Among the various useful materials are
    hints for Internet use and an extensive bibliography.

> Christian Rolland:
    \LaTeX\ guide pratique

    Addison-Wesley France, July 1993.
    280pp. approx.\ 190~FF. \ISBN 2-87908-025-0.
    (Distributed by Bordas, Bordas code 009808.)


\Newsletters

> GUST: 
     Zeszyt 2 (1993), 42pp. 
     Official newsletter of the Polish User Group, Grupa
         U\.zytkownik\'ow Systemu \TeX. 

> La Lettre GUTenberg:
     no.\ 1, juillet 1993, 16pp. 
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> Die \TeX{}nische Kom\"odie:
     5.\ Jahrgang, Heft~1, Mai~1993, 72pp; Heft~2, Sep.\ 1993, 
%    vol.\ 5, no.\ 1, May 1993, 72pp.

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> \TUB: %% The Communications of the \TeX\ Users Group:
     vol.\ 14, no.\ 1, April 1993, 92pp; 
     vol.\ 14, no.\ 2, July 1993, 64pp.

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%% Typographer's Inn (Peter Flynn column) (pp.4-5):

\begingroup
\font\old=cmmi10
\def\o#1{{\old#1}}
\def\\{{\tt\char'134}}
\font\dropcap=cmbx12 scaled \magstep5
\font\droprm=cmr7
\font\dropit=cmti7
\newbox\cbox \newdimen\cwid \newdimen\pwid
\def\\{{\tt\char'134}}
\def\drop#1{\setbox\cbox=\hbox{{\dropcap #1}} \cwid=\wd\cbox \advance\cwid by2pt
            \pwid=\hsize \advance\pwid by-\cwid 
            \box\cbox\par\vskip-3\baselineskip\vskip-2.5pt
            \parshape=4 \cwid \pwid \cwid \pwid \cwid \pwid 0pt \hsize 
            \noindent\ignorespaces}
\newbox\demobox 

\hyphenation{Kil-la-shan-dra pa-ra-me-ters au-to-ma-ting}

\Section{Typographer's Inn}

\begin{flushright}
    Peter Flynn \\
    University College Cork \\
    \tt pflynn@curia.ucc.ie
\end{flushright}

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\subsection*{Interletter spacing} 

Anyone who reads any of the \TeX-related mailing lists or Usenet {\tt
news} groups must be well aware that the Computer Modern ({\sc cm})
fonts are much criticised for alleged ugliness. {\sc cm}-bashing can
be very much in vogue at times, but most of its critics still allow
that at \o{1270}\ts dpi and above, it is extremely easy on the eye to
read. This is largely due to the proportions of the interletter
spacing, which are wider than in many faces used in other {\sc dtp}
systems.

In most visual {\sc dtp} systems you can tweak the interletter space
(sometimes called the `tracking'). This is regarded as inadvisable for
plain text, as type designers go to considerable trouble to adjust
interletter spacing for optimal readability, yet it looks as if Adobe
has narrowed it in most of the fonts they distribute.

At its worst, there are even systems, including some wordprocessors,
which actually pride themselves on their ability to achieve
unhyphenated justified setting by slackening the interletter
spacing. While this is acceptable in newspapers, with their
exceptionally narrow columns, it looks very poor in normal text work.

One day I will have to find out if it is possible to bodge the {\tt
afm2tfm} parameters to generate a decent appearance for the Adobe
fonts, but I'm not sure how this will come out once it's passed
through {\tt dvips} and handed to a typesetter. Does anyone have any
experience in this?


\subsection*{Interword spacing}

Richard Southall gave a provocative talk at Aston about plain \TeX's
limitations in the matter of justification. In hand composition,
interword spacing is initially a fixed space while the line is being
set in the stick. Justification proceeds by the addition or
substitution of fixed increments selected from ens, thicks, mids,
thins and hairspaces, whereas \TeX\ uses infinitely variable spacing
(almost: the increments are tiny). At one stage the trend in the {\sc
uk} was for very close setting, sometimes with no space at all between
a fullpoint at the end of a word and the following capital of the next
sentence, a practice which caused much debate in my typography classes
when I was a student.
 
It is true that properly done, hand-set matter is more pleasing to
read because of the care and attention which is paid by the skilled
compositor. \TeX, being only a program, cannot hope to achieve this
level of sophistication, but the interesting point for the development
of the New Typesetting System ({\sc nts}) is the possibility of being
able to switch to a system of justification based on discrete
increments. Unless, of course, someone would like to implement this in
\TeX\ as it stands\dots


\subsection*{Poetry setting}

There was only one entry for my challenge to find a way of automating
the folding of long lines into the space left above or below by a
preceding or following short measure.  Unfortunately the solution
arrived in my mailbox while I was actually at Aston, so pints were not
distributed, but the winner was Jonathan Kew, whose complex but
elegant macros are available by {\tt ftp} from {\tt curia.ucc.ie} in
{\tt pub/tex/VerseMacs.tex} and {\tt VerseTest.tex}\ts---\ts well done
Jonathan!


\subsection*{Dropped caps}

A final note on the macros for dropped initial capitals: I was reading
Anne McCaffrey's {\em Crystal Line\/} in the {\sc us} paperback
edition (Del Rey/Ballantine, 1992, ISBN 0--345--38491--1) and was
amused to see the opening of the first chapter with a 3--line dropped
cap for the test below. Quite correctly, all three opening quotes and
the A were dropped into the paragraph, but this takes up over a third
of the measure. Some days you just can't win\dots
%
\setbox\demobox=\vbox{\hsize=60mm\let\rm=\droprm
                      \let\it=\dropit\rm\baselineskip=6pt
                \drop{``\thinspace\thinspace`A}nd a star to steer her
                 by,'\thinspace'' Killashandra Ree\vphantom{j} shouted
                 to herself. Not that Lars Dahl\vphantom{j} could have
                 heard her over the roar of the sea crashing against
                 the bow of the {\it Angel\/} and the humming tension 
                 of the wind through the sail stays and across the
                 sloop's mainsail.} 
$$\box\demobox$$


\subsection*{Mailbox}

Yannis Haralambous commented on \TeX's lack of a long~`s' for 17th
century work, pointing out that he has included it in the new {\sc dc}
fonts, as well as ligaturing it. I can see I shall have to start using
the {\sc dc} fonts now!
 
Jim Graham asked about whether to break a line before or after an em
rule, if one occurs at a breakpoint. I prefer afterwards, always, but
Nelson Beebe said his definition permits linebreaks before and after
when used in narrow setting (he defines {\tt\\emrule} as
{\tt\\penalty\\exhyphenpenalty---\\penalty\\exhyphenpenalty}).

David Carlisle fixed my {\tt flow.sty} (running text round an
illustration) so that it handles indentation correctly, and a new copy
is in {\tt/pub/tex} on {\tt curia.ucc.ie}~.

Finally a reminder that you can join {\tt TYPO-L}, the typography
mailing list, by sending {\tt sub~typo-l}~{\sl forename~surname\/} to
{\tt listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie} and carry on the discussion there.

Thanks to all who contributed\ts---\ts and I didn't forget to sign off
this time.
\endgroup

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\Section{``Hey --- it works!''}

\begin{flushright}
       Jeremy Gibbons \\
       University of Auckland \\
       \tt jeremy@cs.aukuni.ac.nz
\end{flushright}

\noindent Welcome to {\sl ``Hey~--- it works!''}. This column is
designed for little tricks~--- even ones that seem trivial or
inelegant~--- that others may find useful. If you have any such items,
please send them in to me at the address above. I am particularly
looking for short items (up to about a page).

We start off with a little note from our noble editor, describing a
trick she used in laying out this issue to get one-column material
following two-column on the same page. Then there is a piece from
David Lau about `striking' (drawing a line) through a piece of text,
and a piece from Anita Hoover on making rules of different thicknesses
in \LaTeX{} alignments. Finally, I describe a modification to \LaTeX's
\verb"footnote" macro that I used in this issue in order to place
verbatim material in footnotes.


\squashedsubsection{One-column material below two-column}
                   {Christina Thiele \\
                    \tt cthiele@ccs.carleton.ca}

When you get to the end of this issue, we have an index done with the
\verb"\twocolumn" coding, described in \ttn\ 1,3:15--16. My problem was
to fit a full-width text below the two-column material. I opted for
the cheap and sneaky solution: I simply put the text at the end of the
second column, and then \verb"\hspace"'d it leftwards by $-6\,{\rm
cm}$! No argument from \TeX, not even a mutter about an overfull
\verb"\hbox". 

\begin{verbatim}
   ... end of last index entry in \twocolumn.
\hspace{-6cm}
   \begin{tabular}{||l||}
      first cell of table ... \\
      ... last cell of table
   \end{tabular}
}
\onecolumn
\end{verbatim}

\newpage


\squashedsubsection{Striking through text}
                   {David Lau \\ Richmond, British Columbia \\ \tt
                    david@worg.questor.org}

\def\strikethrough#1{%
    {%
        \setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
        \dimen0=\ht0 \dimen1=\dp0
        \setbox1=\vbox{
            \box0 \vskip-\dimen1\vskip-0.8ex \hrule
        }%
        \ht1=\dimen0 \dp1=\dimen1
        \box1
    }%
}

I present below a macro, \verb"\strikethrough", which will reproduce its
argument with a line through it; for example, `\strikethrough{strike}'.

\begin{verbatim}
\def\strikethrough#1{%
    {%
        \setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
        \dimen0=\ht0 \dimen1=\dp0
        \setbox1=\vbox{
            \box0 \vskip-\dimen1\vskip-0.8ex \hrule
        }%
        \ht1=\dimen0 \dp1=\dimen1
        \box1
    }%
}
\end{verbatim}
%
This macro works by first typesetting the argument, then backing up
vertically by an amount equal to its depth plus 0.8~times the x-height
of the current font, and finally overlaying a \verb"\hrule" on top of
the argument.\footnote[1]{Another approach is to use horizontal
leaders, as in Chapter~21 of the {\sl\TeX book\/}:
%
\begin{verbatim}
   \def\strikethrough#1{{%
      \setbox0=\hbox{#1}%
      \dimen0 0.8ex\dimen1\dimen0\advance\dimen1 by0.4pt
      \rlap{\leaders\hrule height \dimen1 depth -\dimen0\hskip\wd0}%
      \box0
   }}
\end{verbatim}
%
This involves backing up horizontally, rather than vertically, and
using a rule of negative depth. Symbols other than the \verb"\hrule"
can be used as leaders. ---{\sl jg}}

Here is the tricky part. It is crucial that the placement of the
strikethrough line on the argument not result in a box (\verb"\box1")
having dimensions different from those of the box (\verb"\box0")
containing the argument by itself.  If the superimposition is done
imperfectly, the resultant box will not line up properly with the
surrounding text. But according to \TeX's rules of box construction,
\verb"\box1", as constructed in the code, has a height of
${\tt\string\ht0}-\hbox{0.8\,ex}+\hbox{0.4\,pt}$ and a depth of~0\,pt.
As a result, the dimensions of \verb"\box1" have to be adjusted after
it has been constructed, which explains why the line
\verb"\ht1=\dimen0 \dp1=\dimen1" is necessary.

Note that this macro has a shortcoming: it only works for arguments
that are relatively ``short''. In the event that lines of text or
entire paragraphs are to be ``struck through'', a more elaborate
approach is called for.


\squashedsubsection{Thicker {\tt\string\hline}s in \LaTeX\ alignments}
                   {Anita Z.\,Hoover \\
                    University of Delaware \\
                    \tt anita@ravel.udel.edu}
 
\newdimen\arrayruleHwidth
\setlength{\arrayruleHwidth}{4pt}
\makeatletter
\def\Hline{\noalign{\ifnum0=`}\fi\hrule \@height \arrayruleHwidth
\futurelet
   \@tempa\@xhline}
\makeatother

\noindent In the tabular environment, there is a macro called
\verb"\hline" which  produces a horizontal line in a table across all
columns. It is defined to be of a certain thickness and can be changed
by modifying the dimension specified by \verb"\arrayrulewidth".
However if you want to keep the original \verb"\hline" thickness of
lines, you need to create a new macro, say \verb"\Hline", to produce
thicker lines based on a new dimension, say \verb"\arrayruleHwidth".
You can do this simply by copying the definition for \verb"\hline" and
changing the width of the rules.  The definition below shows how; it
can be placed in the preamble of your document.\footnote[2]{A similar
technique could be used for \verb"\vline" and \verb"\cline". ---{\sl
jg}}

\begin{verbatim}
\newdimen\arrayruleHwidth
\setlength{\arrayruleHwidth}{4pt}
\makeatletter
\def\Hline{\noalign{\ifnum0=`}\fi\hrule \@height \arrayruleHwidth
   \futurelet \@tempa\@xhline}
\makeatother
\end{verbatim}
%
Alternatively, you could omit the \verb"\makeatletter" and
\verb"\makeatother" and put the definition in a style file, say
\verb"Hline.sty". 

Here is an example of using the new macro \verb"\Hline" to produce
thicker lines in the tabular environment.

\begin{verbatim}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}
   \Hline
   \multicolumn{3}{c}{Very Nice}\\\Hline
   1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline
   4 & 5 & 6 \\\hline
   7 & 8 & 9 \\\Hline
\end{tabular}
\end{verbatim}
%
This produces 
\begin{quote}
\begin{tabular}{ccc}\Hline
\multicolumn{3}{c}{Very Nice}\\\Hline
1 & 2 & 3 \\\hline
4 & 5 & 6 \\\hline
7 & 8 & 9 \\\Hline
\end{tabular}
\end{quote}


\squashedsubsection{Footnotes with verbatim material}
                   {Jeremy Gibbons}

There are limitations to what you can do with \LaTeX's
{\tt\string\footnote} macro; in particular, you cannot include
verbatim material (via \verb"\verb" or \verb"\begin{verbatim}") in a
footnote. This is because of the way \LaTeX's footnotes are defined;
the {\tt\string\footnote} macro reads in its entire argument before
executing any of it, and the catcodes of the entire argument are fixed
when the argument is read --- it is not possible to change catcodes
within the argument.

On the other hand, plain~\TeX's footnote macro (as on page~363 of the
{\sl \TeX book\/}) does not have this problem; it `uses some
{\tt\string\bgroup} and {\tt\string\futurelet} and
{\tt\string\aftergroup} trickery, so that the footnote text does not
need to be a parameter'.

I needed footnotes with verbatim material for Anita's and David's
items in this issue, in order to put editorial comments about their
macros in footnotes. I did this by judiciously coalescing \LaTeX's and
plain~\TeX's footnote macros, as shown below.
%
\begin{verbatim}
% plainfootnote.sty: incorporate plain TeX's trickery into LaTeX's 
% footnote macros, to allow \verb"..." within footnotes 
% (the argument to \footnote is not read before it is executed)
\long\def\@footnotetext{%
   \insert\footins\bgroup
      \footnotesize
      \interlinepenalty\interfootnotelinepenalty 
      \splittopskip\footnotesep
      \splitmaxdepth \dp\strutbox \floatingpenalty \@MM
      \hsize\columnwidth \@parboxrestore
      \edef\@currentlabel{\csname p@footnote\endcsname\@thefnmark}%
      \@makefntext{\rule{\z@}{\footnotesep}\ignorespaces}%
      \futurelet\next\fo@t
}
\def\fo@t{\ifcat\bgroup\noexpand\next \let\next\f@@t
                                \else \let\next\f@t\fi \next}
\def\f@@t{\bgroup\aftergroup\@foot\let\next}
\def\f@t#1{#1\@foot}
\def\@foot{\strut\egroup}
\end{verbatim}

\newpage


%% (La)TeX news (pp.10-11):

\Section{\AllTeX\ News}


%% LaTeX update notices (from Frank and Chris):

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


\newcommand{\LaTeXe}
           {\LaTeX{}\kern.05em2$_{\textstyle\varepsilon}$}

\begingroup
\newcommand{\LaTeXeb}%
           {\LaTeX{}2\kern.05em{\boldmath$_{\textstyle\varepsilon}$}}

\newcommand{\NFSS}{{\sf NFSS}}
\newcommand{\NFSSt}{{\sf NFSS2}}

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


\squashedsubsection{\LaTeXeb{} --- A New Version of \LaTeX}
                   {Chris Rowley \\ 
                    and Frank Mittelbach \\
                    \LaTeX3 Project}

\vspace{6pt}

\subsubsection{What is it?}

\LaTeXe{} is a new, standard version of \LaTeX{} --- prepared and
supported by the \LaTeX3 Project Team.


\subsubsection{Why is it needed?}
 
Over the years many extensions of \LaTeX{} have been developed. This
is, of course, a welcome development, since it shows that the
\LaTeX{} system is in a healthy state. It has, however, had
one unfortunate conse\-quence: there are now several incompatible
systems, in the sense of format ({\tt .fmt}) files, all claiming to be
\LaTeX{}. Therefore, in order to process documents coming from various
places, a site maintainer needs to provide several format files:
\LaTeX{} (with and without \NFSS), \SLiTeX, \AmSLaTeX, and so on. 
As well, when looking at a source file it is not always clear for
which format the document was~written.


\subsubsection{What will it offer?}

\LaTeXe{} will put an end to this unsatisfactory situation --- it will
give access to all such extensions based on a single format and thus
end the proliferation of mutually incompatible dialects of \LaTeX~2.09.

It will use an enhanced version (\NFSSt) of the New Font Selection
Scheme. Files such as {\tt amstex.sty} (formerly the \AmSLaTeX{}
format) or {\tt slides.sty} (formerly the \SLiTeX{} format) will
become extension packages, all working with this single format.

The introduction of this new version will also make it possible to add
a small number of often-requested features (such as extended versions
of \verb|\newcommand|).

To summarize:
\begin{itemize} \itemsep=-1pt
   \item {\bf Standardisation:} a single format incorporating \NFSSt, to
         replace the present multiplicity of incompatible formats (\NFSS,
         lfonts, pslfonts, etc.) 
   \item {\bf Maintenance:} a standardised system supported by a reliable
         maintenance policy.
\end{itemize}


\subsubsection{Compatibilty}

\LaTeXe{} will, as far as possible, adhere to the following
prin\-ciples:
%
\begin{enumerate} \itemsep=-1pt
   \item Unmodified version 2.09 document files will produce the same
         output with \LaTeXe{} as with version 2.09.

   \item All new features of \LaTeXe{} will conform to the conventions
         of version 2.09, making it as easy as possible for current
         users to learn to use them.
\end{enumerate}


\subsubsection{Documentation}

The new version will be described in a new edition of Leslie Lamport's
{\it\LaTeX: A Document Preparation System\/}, and in a new book, {\it
The \LaTeX{} Companion\/} by Michael Goossens, Frank Mittelbach and
Alexander Samarin (both to be published by Addison-Wesley). The {\it
Companion\/} will also contain a complete description of \NFSSt.


\subsubsection{Distribution Policy}

Maintenance of the new system will be undertaken by the \LaTeX3
Project Team.
 
A complete distribution of all files, incorporating corrections of
errors, will be made available {\bf twice a year on fixed dates}. This
will happen even if there have been no changes to the files, and hence
only the release dates have had to be updated.  It will therefore be
easy to determine whether you have all the latest bug fixes ---
information which is essential to system maintainers.


\subsubsection{Error Reports}

Error reports can be made using a report generating program {\tt
latexbug.tex}. This will be part of the main distribution.

Error reports will be accepted only if the version of \LaTeXe{} that
produced the error is not older than one year. Error reports can be
sent to this e-mail address: {\tt latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de}.


\subsubsection{Availability}

The $\alpha$-test version of \LaTeXe{} is scheduled for late fall and
the first regular distribution will be in early 1994 (says Frank).
This will also contain information and advice to help in the process
of updating an installation for use with the new version (says Chris).
\endgroup

\vspace{1pc}

\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\vspace{-6pt}

\subsection*{\LaTeX3 Update: Coming Soon!}

There will be a status report on the \LaTeX3 Project coming soon.
Depending on which publication gets out first, it will either appear
in {\sl TUGboat\/} 14, \#4, or \ttn\ 3,1 (January 1994). Further
prototype code for \LaTeX3 is taking shape at this very moment (I am
informed by reliable sources!). Stay tuned to these pages for more
information. It's coming! --Ch.

\vspace{.5pc}

\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\vspace{-6pt}


\squashedsubsection{Bits and pieces \ldots}
                   {Christina Thiele}

Nelson Beebe sent info on a review of Y\&Y's {\small DVIW}indow and
{\small DVIPSONE}, and comments on outline fonts for \TeX: John L.\
Castri, ``Bitmap-free \TeX,'' {\sl Notices of the American
Mathematical Society\/} 40, \#5 (1993): 464--68.

And from the mailbag \ldots\ the Y\&Y folks have ``recently completed
the conversion of \TeX plorator's {\it MathTime\/} font set to fully
hinted {\small ATM} compatible Adobe Type 1 format.'' This is version
1.1, ``a set of math fonts for use with \TeX\ that goes particularly
well with Times Roman for text, but also works well with other text
fonts in Adobe Type 1 format.''

\newpage


%% Column by Robert Becker: You Rang ...? (pp.12-14):

\Section{You Rang \ldots?}

\begin{flushright}
   Ed Baker \\
   P.O.\ Box 642, Norfolk, Mass., 02056 USA \\
   {\tt ejb@world.std.com}
\end{flushright}

\noindent [{\bf Note:} Robert Becker has been sidelined with a severe
hand injury. Ed Baker has offered to fill in, and this column is
therefore a bit different from the usual fare in ``You rang
\ldots~?'' This time we have a product description. If you have any
comments, please send them to Ed at the above address --Ch.]

\vspace{1pc}

\noindent Virtually all database tools provide the ability to produce
plain \ascii\ reports.  Using them with \TeX\ or \LaTeX\ is simply a
matter of creating reports that are actual, \mbox{ready-to-roll},
\TeX\ or \LaTeX\ documents. 

A popular database product is the Personal Information Manager
(\pim). A \pim\ is essentially a consolidated address book, calendar,
phone dialer and mail list manager.  They are widely used by people
who have to manage large numbers of phone calls, appointments and
correspondence.

One of the common commercial \pim s is called \act\ (Automated Contact
Tracking) produced by Contact Software International. This article
will demonstrate how \LaTeX\ can be used directly with \act\ to
produce a standard business letter.

Each record in \act\ is referred to as a contact, containing 74 fields
of information.  Each field is labeled within the system so that it
can be used with the \act\ report generator, accessed via a pull-down
menu system.  The report generator is used to create a master file to
be merged with the various contacts.  After starting the report
generator, simply type in all of the regular \LaTeX\ commands you want
to use and insert \act-replaceable fields by specifying them as shown:
``\mbox{\sf [\#FIELD--NAME]}''.  The attached \act\ report is used as
a standard business letter shell.  It uses the following fields:
\mbox{\sf [\#Contact]}, \mbox{\sf [\#Name]}, \mbox{\sf
[\#Address\_line\_1]}, \mbox{\sf [\#Address\_line\_2]}, \mbox{\sf
[\#City]}, \mbox{\sf [\#State]}, \mbox{\sf [\#ZIP]} and \mbox{\sf
[\#Salutation]}.

To use the system, you'd merely select the person you want to write
to, use the \act\ menu system to select the ``Letter'' option, and the
replaceable fields would be automatically inserted.  You could then
insert the body of your text, enclosures, cc list and postscript.

The \act\ system also provides a function called ``Launch'' which will
start a batch file. You could start \LaTeX\ with this feature, or
shell to {\small DOS} to run \LaTeX\ and your favorite
previewer/printer driver.

The attached report listing illustrates the \act\ letter. In this
case, all of the letter parts are defined as \verb|\newcommands| ---
\verb|\body|, \verb|\salutation|, \verb|\postscript|, \verb|\enclosures|, 
\verb|\cclist|, and \verb|\signatuture|.  Each \verb|\newcommand| is
placed in the \LaTeX\ preamble in the inverse order of its likelihood
of changing.  The contents of the \verb|\postscript| and
\verb|\enclosures| commands are actually commented out unless you
elect to use them.

{\small
\begin{verbatim}
\documentstyle[art11]{article}
\newcommand{\sendto}{
[#Contact]                      \\
[#Name]                         \\
[#Address_line_1]               \\
[#Address_line_2]               \\
[#City], [#State]  [#ZIP]
}
\newcommand{\salutation}{
Dear [#Salutation],}

\newcommand{\body}{

%%                     -- Your Text Goes Here  --

}
\newcommand{\postscript}{
%% Use the next section for your postscript message
%% remove the two percent signs and continue on the next line
%%{\bf p.s.}\\

}
\newcommand{\enclosures}{\footnotesize
%% Use the next section for your enclosures
%% remove the two percent signs and continue on the next line
%%encl: \\

}
\newcommand{\cclist}{\small
%% remove the two percent signs and put cclist inside parbox
%%CC: \ \parbox[t]{4in}{
%%
%%} % end of parbox
} % end of cclist
\pagestyle{empty}
\setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\evensidemargin}{0pt}
\setlength{\marginparwidth}{1 in}
\setlength{\marginparsep}{0pt}
\setlength{\topmargin}{0 pt}
\setlength{\headheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\headsep}{0pt}
\end{verbatim}
\newpage

\twocolumn
{
\hfuzz=20pt %the two columns actually overlap
\begin{verbatim}
\setlength{\topskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\footheight}{0pt}
\setlength{\footskip}{0pt}
\setlength{\textheight}{8.5in}
\setlength{\textwidth}{6.0in}
\setlength{\unitlength}{1in}
\newcounter{foo}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\setlength{\parskip}{2ex}

\newcommand{\signature}{Ed Baker \\
{\em Internet: }{\tt ejb@world.std.com}}
%% End of Preamble %%
\begin{document}
\vspace*{0.75in}

\today \hfill

\sendto\par
\vspace*{5ex}

{\salutation}\par
\vspace*{2ex}

\body\par
\vspace*{2ex}

Sincerely,\par
\vspace*{6ex}
\signature\par
\vspace*{3pt}

\postscript\par
\vspace*{3pt}

\cclist\par
\vfill
\enclosures
\end{document}
\end{verbatim}
}}

\newpage

\vglue8cm

\hspace{-1.75pc}
\begin{tabular}{||c||}
  \multicolumn{1}{c}{\large\bf A-in-\LaTeX Contest} \\ [6pt]
  \multicolumn{1}{c}{\large Deadline Extended} \\ [6pt]
  \hline
  \mbox{\empty}            \\ [-8pt] 
  \multicolumn{1}{||p{5.5cm}||}{Due to late delivery of many issues of
      \ttn\ 2,2, which contained contest details, 
      the deadline has been extended to} \\
  \mbox{\empty} \\
  \large\bf 31 December 1993 \\ 
  \hbox{\empty} \\
  See \ttn\ 2,2:28 for contest details. \\ [4pt]
  \hline 
\end{tabular}

\onecolumn

\newpage


%% Reports on Meetings (pp.15-17):

\Section{Reports on Meetings}

\squashedsubsection{DANTE'93 in Chemnitz}
                   {Walt A.\ Obermiller, \\
                    Stephan Engelke}

\dante'93, the German \TeX{} meeting, and membership conference of the 
German \TeX{} users group was held at the Technical University of
Chemnitz, March 9--12, 1993. Some 90 registered participants gathered
for four days of \TeX{}nical discussions, and to have a good time.


\subsubsection{Tutorials} 

The meeting began on Tuesday afternoon, the 9th, with tutorials, a
``quaint old tradition'' of \dante\ meetings. All tutorials were well
attended. One of the most popular sessions was with Phil Taylor (``Ask
me any question about plain \TeX'') which was continued on Friday,
after the meeting was supposed to be over. Some tutorials also
provided handy booklets, which were very much appreciated.


\subsubsection{Membership meeting} 

The \dante\ membership meeting was held on Wednesday morning.
Friedhelm Sowa (treasurer) gave a financial status report (definitely
solvent); then Joachim Lammarsch (president) spoke about
\dante's activities, and its relationship with other
\TeX{} groups.  Membership (now at 2,321) has increased steadily. The
opening of \dante's office in Heidelberg is imminent; the very popular
distribution of software and books to members, albeit a lot of work,
will move to the new headquarters soon.  The quality of maintenance of
\dante's ftp server in Stuttgart has been improved, and close
coordination of activities with the Aston and {\small SHSU} servers
has been established. Board elections unanimously reconfirmed the old
board (Joachim Lammarsch, president; Uwe Untermarzoner, vice
president; Friedhelm Sowa, treasurer; and Luzia Dietsche,
secretary). The membership meeting was then adjourned, and most of the
remaining three days were devoted to the talks on the agenda.


\subsubsection{The conference presentations} 

About a dozen papers were presented, covering a wide range of topics,
under the general headings of \TeX, \LaTeX, and \MF, as well as the
intersection with PostScript and graphics issues. For \LaTeX, there
were papers on font problems in a mixed Cyrillic/Roman document (Horst
Szillat); macros to create personalized bulk mailings (Thomas
Schweikle); a new style file for floats (Hubert G\"a\ss lein); and an
account of introducing \LaTeX\ to hospital doctors for writing letters
and reports (Bernd-Michael Paschke).

In the \TeX\ area, a description of \TeX\ under Linux (Jens
P\"onisch); publishing experiences (Steffen Kernstock); and
(in)compatibility of source files (Bernd Raichle). As well, Phil
Taylor spoke about the future of \TeX\, and his role as the newly
appointed technical director of the {\small NTS} project. \MF\ was
used to provide solutions for specialised symbols in a physics context
(Torsten Kunz).

Several papers looked at the problems of taking \TeX\ and integrating
it with the non-\TeX\ world: a proposal for a standard graphics
interface (Friedhelm Sowa); bringing diagrams and graphs from
Mathematica and Maple into \LaTeX\ files (Werner Buckhards); and using
contents of \TeX{}'s registers in PostScript (J\"urgen Gl\"ockner).

Other items on the agenda included a \LaTeX3 Question-and-Answer
session with Rainer Sch\"opf, and a description of REdit, a text
editor (Michael Rogalla).


\subsubsection{Social Events} 
%
included a guided tour of City Hall on Wednesday, with a reception
held by the Mayor of Chemnitz. And on Thursday, we went by bus to
Schlo\ss{} Augustusburg, which houses a famous motorcycle museum; we
concluded the evening with dinner at the restaurant there.

Joachim Lammarsch and Rainer Sch\"opf closed the meeting with the
traditional \TeX{} resource talk. The ever-important question to
answer: ``Where can I get \TeX{}-related software?''  File server
locations and Internet and Bitnet discussion lists were mentioned, as
well as how to use the \dante\ \TeX{} Archive at the University of
Stuttgart using the mail server or ftp. Last year's request count and
the volume of software retrieved by both mail and ftp were interpreted
as eloquent proof as to the usefulness of the Stuttgart Archive.

\bigskip

\noindent All in all an interesting and fun meeting I'm glad I
attended!


\squashedsubsection{TUG'\ts93 at Aston University, UK}
                   {Mimi Burbank \\
                    {\tt mimi@scri.fsu.edu}}

There is an air of excitement and anticipation when one goes to the
\tug\ annual meeting; this year was no exception. 1993 was the first
year the Annual Meeting was held outside the North American continent,
affording many European \TeX\ users to attend --- as well as providing
economic problems for American users.  The program covered topics on
system installation, fonts, document design, typography, macros, and
several excellent talks on The Future(s) of \TeX.  There were
excellent talks given on languages --- Khmer and Catalan --- and
exciting developments for typesetting music and maps, as well as
informative talks on macros and the behaviour of \TeX\ and
\LaTeX. This year a Bursary Fund was established, with generous
contributions made by individuals and organizations, resulting in the
attendance by some eastern European users who otherwise could not have
attended.

The meeting at Aston was attended by users from all around the globe
--- Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Eire, Estonia, France,
Germany, Greece, Italy, Israel, Japan, Norway, Poland, Russia,
Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Ukraine,
Ulster, United Kingdom, and the United States.

One highlight of the conference {\em had\/} to be the trip to
Stratford to see {\em King Lear\/} at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
--- a powerful and most memorable performance.  The Shakespeare
Library opened its vaults and shared published works dating back to
the early 1700s.  Speaking as a colonial I must say that the sights,
smells, tastes, and sounds of my trip to the UK will remain with me a
long time.

The sense of history is quite acute, and reminds one that \tug\ also
has a history, one which continues to evolve and we as members must
protect the heritage given us and provide the framework for future
users.  Networks have brought many of us together electronically; at
Aston, many of us met for the first time; many of us argued (and some
not for the first time), but the agreement was unanimous that as \TeX\
users, we must continue to evolve.


%% Board Activities (pp.17-23):

\Section{TUG Board Activities}

\subsection*{Summary of Annual Business Meeting\\
             TUG\ts'93 at Aston University, UK}

\begin{flushright}
   Christina Thiele \\
   President, \TeX\ Users Group
\end{flushright}

\noindent This year's Annual Business Meeting was held on Thursday,
July 29th, from 2:00 to 3:00, chaired by \tug's president, Christina
Thiele. The first part of the meeting was a presentation of various
items by members of the Executive Committee, followed by a general
question-and-answer session with members attending the Annual Meeting.


\subsubsection{Reports}

The President thanked the \tug\ts'93 Committee, Peter Abbott for Aston
University, the \tug\ Office staff, and all the attendees for
contributing towards a successful and informative meeting.

Peter Abbott, chair of the \tug\ts'93 Committee, located at Aston
University, gave a quick overview of the conference: 9 of 12 courses
had been run, and there was a total attendance for both courses and
conference of about 168 individuals.

Phil Taylor presented a summary of the results of the Bursary Fund,
donations for which had come from many \tug\ members. A total of some
\pounds 5,488 had been received, allowing some 18 people from various
countries, predominantly Eastern Europe, to attend the first \tug\
meeting for most of them. On their behalf, Ela Kuczynska (a member of
{\small GUST}, the Polish user group), read a short statement of
thanks.\footnote[1]{``I would like to express our gratitude to all the
persons who gave their donations to the Bursary Fund, as well as to
the Bursary Fund Committee, for their kind support. Thanks to them, we
have now the possibility to participate in this conference, that would
otherwise be impossible for us. It will be a great advantage to our
newly-established groups, which have only recently begun to
participate in the world-wide \TeX\ community. Thank you very much.''}
About \pounds 600 remained, and this will go towards the 1994 bursary
fund. It should be added here that the money which \tug\ usually
allocates to the Knuth Scholar was redirected to the Bursary Fund,
since no scholarship was awarded for 1993.\footnote[2]{See {\sl
TUGboat\/} 14, \#2, p.\ 102.}

On behalf of the Executive Director, Pat Monohon, the President
provided an update on the \tug\ office. Of immediate interest and
benefit to members was the news that the office staff (Pat, Lisa Ward,
and John Berlin) have arranged their hours such that calls can be
taken from 3 a.m.\ to 6 p.m.\ Pacific Time~(!!), and that payments can
now be accepted in almost any regularly traded currency --- which
means it is no longer necessary to always convert to US dollars when
sending in membership dues, or payments for other \tug\ products. Many
had already met Pat, Lisa Ward, and John Berlin during the meeting,
and members were invited to stop by the office if they were in the
Santa Barbara area.

The Treasurer, Bill Woolf, presented an outline of the budget for
1993, which indicated a potential \$30,000 deficit. However, since the
revenues from the \tug\ts'93 conference were as yet unknown, nothing
more definite could be provided.

Two announcements were made by Barbara Beeton: the first concerned the
new release of \TeX\ v.3.1415 (the notice was included in the Thursday
edition of the daily {\sl TUGly Telegraph\/} newsletter and will also
appear in {\sl TUGboat\/}). The second was that the deadline for the
\ttn\ ``A-in-\LaTeX'' contest has been extended to December 31, 1993.

The President outlined the highlights of the board meeting. The most
significant item for members was the issue of the annual meetings. It
has been decided that meetings will rotate through three geographic
zones: the west coast, then the east coast of North America, and
Europe. To start the cycle off, Santa Barbara will be the west coast
site for the 1994 \tug\ Annual Meeting, with a tentative decision for
Florida to be the east coast site for 1995. Also with members, the
1994 dues will remain unchanged at the 1993 rates. For the immediate
future, \tug's attention will focus on a membership drive, and on
improving and extending services to its members. One further issue of
direct impact on \tug\ members was the upcoming election for board
members, which is another step in the transition from an appointed
board to an elected one. All 15 positions are open for election; in
order to end up with only 5 positions per year coming up for election,
the 15 winning candidates will then be selected randomly to hold their
seats for one, two, or three years. As well, all terms of office, for
both board members and for the president, will begin at the annual
meeting: this means future elections will be held in the spring,
before the annual meeting.

The President also spoke about the conference at Aston: the excitement
of having the meeting in Europe, the opportunity to meet so many new
people and to match faces with e-mail addresses, the trip set up to
attend the performance of {\sl King Lear\/} at Stratford, as well as
the special viewing of books arranged at the Royal Shakespeare
Library. As always, the success of the meeting lay with the members,
both long-time and first-time attendees.

\vspace{-3pt}

\subsubsection{Questions and Answers}

The second half of the Business Meeting was devoted to questions and
comments from the audience. 

\vspace{-6pt}

\begin{itemize} \itemsep=-1pt
   \item Nelson Beebe suggested that \tug\ maintain a forwarding
         address in perpetuity from the former Providence location to
         Santa Barbara; it was pointed out that all publications in 
         circulation before 1993 contained the Providence address as
         contact point for \tug. 

         {\bf Update} on this item: Bill Woolf, \tug's
         Treasurer, and an Associate Executive Director of the {\small
         AMS}, has said that the former e-mail address of {\tt
         tug@math.ams.org} is permanently forwarded to the {\bf }new
         address, which is {\tt tug@tug.org} (as of this month
         [September] --Ch).

   \item The problem of delays in receiving {\sl TUGboat\/} was 
         raised by Malcolm Clark. He asked if the scheduled vs.\
         actual dates of publication for the past 5 years might
         be assembled, to determine if current delays were no
         different from those in the past, or if they had become
         worse. 

         The President's response was that this was a serious
         issue, and that it was clear that recent delays were indeed
         worse. She pointed out that finding alternative production
         solutions for a publication which had 14 years of history
         could not be found overnight. She has been discussing
         other options with the {\sl TUGboat\/} editor, Barbara
         Beeton, since early spring and had made it one of her 
         priority items while in office. 

         Phil Taylor rose later on to offer effusive praise and thanks
         for the work done by the editor, and this was greeted with a
         generous round of applause by the audience, to the editor's
         embarrassment.

   \item The question of \BibTeX\ and when it might be available was
         raised. The President responded that she'd been in contact
         with Oren Patashnik, who felt that it could not be finalised
         before the end of this year. As well, there were
         complications arising as the \LaTeX3 project tried to ensure
         that there would be harmony between \BibTeX\ and the new
         \LaTeX. 

   \item Jonathan Fine rose to suggest that authors of public domain
         software consider having \tug\ serve as distributor of their
         wares, and perhaps even have \tug\ involved in locating funds
         to support writers of {\small PD} software. The President
         suggested that Jonathan serve as the collecting point of
         information and comment on this issue, and present a report
         to \tug. 

   \item An additional item raised by Malcolm was that of having an
         Index to {\sl TUGboat\/}. Barbara replied that an Index
         had been in progress for quite some time; progress was slow,
         but she could report that the issues up to volume 8 were now
         done. As with many volunteer efforts, time was the major
         constraint. However, all {\sl TUGboat\/} tables of contents
         have been installed on the {\small CTAN} archives, along with
         the  style file needed to typeset them. As well, a {\small
         KWIC} index generated from the titles in them is also present
         in the archives, thanks to Nelson Beebe.\footnote[3]{Details
         appear in {\sl TUGboat\/} 14, \#2, p.\ 101.}

   \item The suggestion was made, based on a presentation by the
         editors of the Polish newsletter {\sl GUST\/}, that the {\sl
         TUGboat\/} macros might also benefit from being recast in
         {\tt WEB}. The editor was not sure this was feasible, but
         said she would investigate the issue further.

   \item And finally, it was suggested that one way of helping the
         editorial and production work on {\sl TUGboat\/} move more
         smoothly and rapidly, would be for authors submitting items
         for publication to take a little extra time to ensure their
         submissions were complete (check all \verb"\input" statements
         to ensure all additional macro files were included), that
         their file runs on a different machine, especially with
         respect to non-standard or non-CM fonts; check spelling; etc.
         Having a colleague read over the submission, as well as test
         run it, would also help debug some of the more obvious
         errors, all of which can add to the editor's task of getting
         material ready for publication on time. 
\end{itemize}
%
The meeting ended at 3 p.m., in time for the afternoon break. 

 

\subsection*{Notices}

\squashedsubsection{$\bullet$ 1993 Board Election Results}
                   {Joachim Lammarsch \\
                    Chair, Election Committee}

The terms of all fifteen members of the first elected Board of
Directors will expire on December 31, 1993. The election to choose the
new Board members was scheduled for this fall and nominations of all
members were invited.

For this election only, the length of some terms has been altered so
that not all members of the Board are replaced at the same time, but
only one-third. For Board members elected this year, all terms will
begin January 1, 1994. Five members of the new Board will have terms
that end with the 1995 annual meeting, five with the 1996 annual
meeting and five with the 1997 annual meeting.  The members of each of
the three groups have been chosen by lot by the \tug\ acountant.

The deadline for nominations was September 1, 1993 and the \tug\
office received twelve nomination forms. Unfortuately one was not
complete and had to be declared invalid.

Therefore it was not necessary to mail ballots to all members.  In
accordance with the Election Procedures all eleven candidates were
declared as elected. In accordance with the bylaws our president will
appoint four other persons to fill the four remaining vacancies.

The new members of the Board of Directors are (selected by term):

\begin{center}
   \begin{tabular}{lll}
      3\bf .5-year term  & \bf 2.5-year term & \bf 1.5-year term \\ [2pt]
   \hline 
   \noalign{\vskip2pt}
      Luzia Dietsche     & Mimi Burbank      & Barbara Beeton    \\
      George Greenwade   & Jackie Damrau     & plus four people, \\
      Yannis Haralambous & Michael Ferguson  & to be named.      \\
      Jon Radel          & Peter Flynn       &                   \\
      Sebastian Rahtz    & Nico Poppelier    &                   \\
   \end{tabular}
\end {center}

As chair of the Election Committee I would like to express my thanks
to the candidates and all the other people who helped to organize the
election.

However, if we are not able to find more than fifteen candidates I
feel it's time to consider: Is an election by such a democratic method
useful?  Would it be better to return to appointing members to the
Board of Directors? Are there other solutions?  I would be glad to
receive suggestions from our members.


\subsection*{$\bullet$ Technical Council: \\
             \phantom{$\bullet$} Special Interest Working Groups
                                 (SI-TWGs)}
\begingroup
\def\si{{\small SI-TWG}}
\def\twg{{\small TWG}}

\begin{flushright}
   Michael Ferguson \\
   Chair, Technical Council
\end{flushright}

\noindent The primary purpose of the \TeX\ User Group's Technical
Council is to provide a forum and mechanism for studying technical
issues concerning \TeX, \MF, and their auxilliary support systems.
Although this includes such important service, standardisation, future
tools projects,\footnote[1]{Examples of such projects include Archives
(TWG-Archives: George Greenwade, TWG-Chair), Multiple Language
Coordination (TWG-MLC: Yannis Haralambous, TWG-Chair), and Independent
Research Projects (IRP-TWG: Alan Hoenig, TWG-Chair) which includes the
\LaTeX3 project (Frank Mittelbach, Project Chair). See TTN 1,3:5--8
for details.} it is the ``Special Interest Working Groups (\si)'' that
will have the most interest for the ordinary \TeX\ user. \si s are
dedicated to the exploitation of \TeX\ systems for the specialised
needs of particular user groups. These vertically integrated interest
groups are destined to be an incredibly exciting part of the \TeX\
community.

Our first \si\ was ``\TeX\ for the Disabled'' with T.V.~Raman as chair
({\tt raman@cs.cornell.edu}). Raman, who is blind, has created a very
impressive system for interpreting the control codes and structures of
\TeX\ by means of audio tones. His \twg\ is not only concerned with
making \TeX\ more accessible for the blind, but also for persons with
other disabilities. This group has been able to connect people who
need and people who produce such things as braille fonts for
mathematics, Computerized Books for the Blind, and appropriate online
versions of the \LaTeX\ manual. There has also been discussion and
offers within the group to write some specialized programs, such as
adapting {\small DOS} for the vision impaired. This
\si\ is an exciting beginning to, what I believe, will be a very
important part of the \TeX\ environment.

At this moment, we are in the process of organizing two new \si s.
The first is to address the needs of those that are using, need to
use, or merely interested in, the coupling of \TeX\ and {\small SGML}
(contact Ken Dreyhaupt at {\tt dreyhaupt@spint.compuserve.com}). This
is a very important area for the enhancement of cooperation and
understanding between two communities, and will also serve as a means
of discussion and research for those that must straddle both
areas. The other new \si\ being organized concerns the relation of
\TeX\ and Adobe's new file format Acrobat (Doug Henderson, {\tt
drh@bluesky.com}).

\si s may reflect the specialized technical interests of a
particular community such as publishers, scientific organizations,
chemists, astronomers, physicists, historians, logicians, theoretical
computer scientists, or musicians, or perhaps satisfy a need for the
possibly specialized use of a tool such as \LaTeX. One particular area
might be Human/Computer interfaces for \LaTeX.

What does it take to start an \si? First, and foremost, it takes an
enthusiastic person with a burning interest. There also should be a
user community with similar interests that will come together, usually
electronically, for discussions and actions. Each \twg\ has a chair
and a member of the Technical Council, who is sometimes the chair, to
act as a liaison between the \twg\ and the \tug\ Board.  The \twg\
chair is expected to report, usually through the Technical Council
Liaison, its activities to the Technical Council and hence the board.
The chair is also encouraged to report on the \twg's activities in any
forum that he/she feels beneficial and to seek cooperation with
individuals and institutions as appropriate. If there is any action
that a \twg\ would like to report to the board for formal (\tug)
recognition, this action or recommendation will be evaluated by the
Technical Council, and then brought to the board. It is anticipated
that there will be little need for such action by a \si\ but the
possibility is there.

The \twg\ chair is completely responsible for the membership and
activities of the \twg. The Technical Council and its liaison is
charged only with reporting the activities of the \twg\ and carrying
recommendations to the \tug\ board. If you would like to participate
in a particular \twg, please contact the Chair. If you would like to
start a \twg, please contact any member of the Technical Council.

\begin{center}
   \begin{tabular}{ll}
      Michael Ferguson (Chair) & \tt mike@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca \\
      Yannis Haralambous       & \tt yannis@gat.citilille.fr \\
      Alan Hoenig              & \tt ajhjj@cunyvm.cuny.edu \\
   \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\endgroup

\vspace{1pc}

\squashedsubsection{$\bullet$ Conference Planning Committee}
                   {Jackie Damrau \\
                    Chair, Conference Planning Committee}

\noindent Following recommendations from our committee, the \tug\
board has approved a geographic rotation through three zones: North
America --- West Coast, North America --- East Coast, and Europe.
This approach allows \tug\ to reach many of its members by giving all
an opportunity to attend an annual meeting periodically without undue
expense.

The \tug\ board has approved Santa Barbara, California as the 1994
annual meeting site.  Plans are in progress by the local Santa Barbara
\TeX\ Users Group to offer enticing accommodations, meeting
arrangements, and a pleasant place to meet with other \tug\ members
from near and far.

 We are now soliciting the membership for volunteers to host future
annual meetings for 1995--1997.  Keeping with our geographical scheme,
we are looking for offers from North America --- East Coast users
(1995); European users (1996); and North America --- West Coast users
(1997).  The committee has received tentative offers from Florida
(St.\ Petersburg, Florida, has been accepted as a candidate site) and
Ireland.  It is never too late to offer your campus or institution as
a possible meeting site.

What do you need to do to offer your site? Using the recorded
experience of past conference organizers, the committee has compiled a
short checklist for volunteers to complete and return for an initial
bid to host a meeting.  Along with this checklist, the committee
provides organizers with a summary of tips --- sort of a ``things to
do'' and ``things to avoid''.

Would you like to host an annual meeting at your site for 1995, 1996, or
1997?  If so, please contact committee chair, Jackie Damrau:

\begin{center} \tabcolsep=4pt
   \begin{tabular}{lll}
      Jackie Damrau, Chair      & Phone: & 214-708-6048\\
      \tug\ Conference Planning Committee  
                                & \fax:   & 214-708-5143\\
      P.O.\ Box 875             & E-mail: 
                           & \tt tugcpc-l@irlearn.bitnet\\
      Red Oak, Texas 75154-0875, USA
   \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\vfill

\begin{center} \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3}
   \begin{tabular}{||c||}
      \multicolumn{1}{c}{\large\bf 1994 Annual Meeting} \\
   \hline
       31 July--4 August, 1994 \\
       Santa Barbara, California \\
    \hline
   \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\newpage


%% TUG Courses for 1993/1994 (p.24):

\Section{\Large\bf \TeX\ Users Group \\
          1993/1994 Course Schedule}

\vspace{1pc}

\begin{tabular}{llll}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\large\sl Beginning/Intermediate \TeX*} 
      & \multicolumn{2}{l}{\large\sl Intensive Course in \LaTeX*} \\
\quad Santa Barbara    & Feb.\ 7--11  & \quad Santa Barbara
                                                     & Jan.\ 31--Feb.\ 4 \\ [6pt]
\cline{2-3}
\noalign{\vskip8pt}
\multicolumn{2}{l}{\large\sl Modifying \LaTeX\ Style Files*}
      & \multicolumn{2}{l}{\large\sl Adv'd \TeX\ and Macro Writing\rlap{*}} \\
\quad Santa Barbara    & Feb.\ 28--Mar.\ 4
                                      & \quad Santa Barbara
                                                     & Nov.\ 1--5 \\
                       &              & \quad Santa Barbara
                                                     & Feb.\ 14--18 \\ [6pt]
\cline{2-3}
\noalign{\vskip8pt}
\multicolumn{4}{c}{\large\sl Practical SGML and \TeX*} \\
\multicolumn{4}{c}{\large\sl Publishers*} \\
\multicolumn{4}{c}{Santa Barbara\quad Nov.\ 8--9} \\ [6pt]
\cline{2-3}
\noalign{\vskip8pt}
\multicolumn{4}{c}{\footnotesize
                   *Lab classes --- computers will be provided for
                    all students} \\
\end{tabular}

\vspace{1pc}
\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\begin{itemize} 
   \item \tug\ courses are small, with 8--15 students in most classes.

   \item Dates and locations subject to change. Direct course
         inquiries to John Berlin at the \tug\ Office. Anyone
         interested in courses dealing with \TeX\ and {\small SGML}
         should contact John as well ({\tt john@tug.org}). 

   \item \tug\ office: phone 805-963-1338\quad
                       \fax\ 805-963-8358\quad
                           \fbox{\tt tug@tug.org}

\end{itemize}

\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\vspace{1pc}

\begin{center}
   \large\bf On-Site Courses in \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ from \TUG\
\end{center}     

\begin{itemize} 
   \item Courses in \TeX{}, \LaTeX{}, {\small SGML} and \TeX,
         PostScript, or \TeX{} for Publishers tailored to the needs of
         your group 

   \item Courses at every level from beginning to advanced

   \item Five full days of instruction at your site

   \item One-week course fee includes all instructor fees and expenses
         plus textbooks and other materials for up to 15 students
\end{itemize}

\newpage


%% Upcoming Events (p.25):

\Section{Upcoming Events}

\begin{center} 
{\tabcolsep4pt \setbox 0 = \hbox {\bf Spring 1994}
\dimen 0 = \hsize
\advance \dimen 0 by -6\tabcolsep
\advance \dimen 0 by -\wd 0
\advance \dimen 0 by -4.8 cm
\begin{tabular}{p{\wd 0}p{4.8cm}p{\dimen 0}}
\hline
\hline
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 3 Nov.     & {\small\bf GUT}{\bf enberg}:\nl
                 ``Journ\'ee pour l'utili\-sa\-teur\nl
                  \TeX'' and General Meeting.\nl
                 {\small ENS}, salle Dussane,\nl
                 45 rue~d'Ulm, Paris 5\`eme.
                       & {\tt journee-gut@ens.fr} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 18 Nov.    & {\small\bf NTG} 12th Meeting:\nl
                 ``\AllTeX\ User Environment''.\nl
                 Den Bosch, {\small OC\'E}.
                       & Gerard van Nes\nl
                         {\tt vannes@ecn.nl} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 18--19 Nov. & ``Jump Starting Your {\small SGML}\nl
                  Implementation'' (seminar).\nl
                  Goudy Centre, 
                  Rochester Inst.\ of Technology, New York.
                        & Charlene O'Hanlon\nl
                          Tel.: +1 716-475-4951 \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 29 Nov.    & {\bf Nordic Group}: \nl
                 Helsinki University, 
                 Finland.
                       & Martti Nikunen \nl
                         {\tt nikunen@cc.helsinki.fi} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 16--18 Feb. & {\small\bf DANTE}'94: \nl
                  10th general meeting,
                  M\"unster, Germany.
                       & Wolfgang Kaspar \nl
                         {\tt kaspar@dmswwu1a.} \nl
                         {\tt uni-muenster.de} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 11--15 April & Joint Conference:
                   {\small\bf RIDT'94},\nl
                   {\small\bf EP94},
                   {\small\bf TEP'94},
                   {\small\bf PODP94}. \nl
                   Darmstadt, Germany.
                       & {\tt ep94@gmd.de},\nl
                         {\tt ridt94@irisa.fr} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf Spring 1994 & {\small\bf NTG} 13th Meeting:\nl
                  ``\AllTeX, \MF, and\nl tools education.''\nl
                  Groningen, at {\small RUG}.
                       & Gerard van Nes\nl
                         {\tt vannes@ecn.nl} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline 
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\bf 31 July--\nl
     4 Aug.    & {\small\bf TUG\ts'94}:\nl
                 15th Annual Meeting,\nl
                 Santa Barbara, California.
                       & Debbie Ceder \nl
                         {\tt tug94@tug.org} \\
\noalign{\vskip4pt}
\hline
\hline
\end{tabular}
}
\end{center}

\vspace{.5pc}

\noindent {\bf Note}: Also consult the ``Calendar'' in the previous
issue of \TUB\ for more dates and details. 

\newpage


%% Obituary for Yuri Melnichuk (p.26)
  
\Section{In Memoriam}
  
\begin{center}
   \large\bf Yuri Melnichuk
\end{center}
  
\noindent{\bf Yuri Melnichuk}, a reader in computing mathematics at
Lviv Polytechnical Institute, in the Ukraine, and one of the
participants at the Aston \tug\ts'93 conference and courses, died
suddenly of a heart attack while at the University of York on Friday,
August 13th.

Yuri was a fairly frequent visitor to York, where he was working on a
joint book on number theory with Maurice Dodson.  During his time at
York he had been introduced to \TeX, and with the help of other
colleagues in the Mathematics department there had developed this
interest. Realising its potential value to the academic community in
the Ukraine he had contacted others, with a view to establishing good
links between institutions and individuals.

His concerns were not just mathematical: he was also active in
ensuring that the British Council and the {\small IEE} were in contact
with relevant bodies in the Ukraine.  Just before he died he was
searching the net for a {\small PC} version of Ada to take back for
computer scientists in his institution.

Last year, he had been instrumental in beginning a \TeX\ users group
in Lviv and was beginning to coordinate its activities over the whole
country.

He was a dynamic personality, with infectious vision and enthusiastic
plans. An excellent and hospitable host, his good humour was matched
with determination. His ability to bring people together was a tribute
to his vision of cooperation and his own engaging nature.  His loss is
a blow to the many friends he had made, to his colleagues in the
Ukraine, and to the \TeX\ community worldwide.

\begin{flushright}
   Malcolm Clark
\end{flushright}

\vfill 

\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\vspace{.5pc}

\begin{center}
   \begin{tabular}{||ll||}
      \multicolumn{2}{c}{\large\bf TTN Schedule for Submissions} \\ 
      \hline
         \mbox{\empty}      &                 \\ [-8pt] 
         Jan.\ issue (1994) & \bf Dec.\ 1st   \\
         Apr.\ issue        & \bf March 15th  \\ 
         July issue         & \bf June 1st    \\
         Oct.\ issue        & \bf Sept.\ 15th \\
      \hline
    \end{tabular}
\end{center}

\vspace{.5pc}

\hrule \vspace{2pt} \hrule

\newpage


%% Index for 1993 issues (2,1 -- 2,4) (pp.27-28):

\begingroup
\newcommand{\indexletter}[1]{\begin{center}
                               \bf -- #1 --
                             \end{center}
                            }

\twocolumn[\Section{1993 TTN Index}

{\bf Notation:} All references show the {\bf volume},number:page;
outside back cover is noted as C4 (Index prepared by Jackie Damrau).

\vspace{1pc}
] 

{\footnotesize \baselineskip=10pt

\begin{list}{}{\itemsep=-1pt
               \parsep=1pt
               \leftmargin0pt
               \listparindent=-12pt}

\indexletter{A}
\item The A-in-\LaTeX\ Contest {\bf 2},2:28; {\bf 2},4:14
\item Archives
   \subitem UK \TeX\ archive on CD-ROM {\bf 2},3:14
   \subitem The CTAN archive {\bf 2},3:15
\item An Author's Ps{\tiny @}lm {\bf 2},4:28

\indexletter{C}
\item 1993 Course Schedule {\bf 2},1:24; {\bf 2},2:26; {\bf 2},3:27;
   \subitem {\bf 2},4:24
\item Conference Planning Committee {\bf 2},3:26; {\bf 2},4:22

\indexletter{D}
\item Did you know \ldots~? {\bf 2},1:2; {\bf 2},2:2

\indexletter{E}
\item Editorials {\bf 2},1:1; {\bf 2},2:1; {\bf 2},3:1; {\bf 2},4:1
\item Eight Great Reasons to Join the \TeX\ Users Group {\bf 2},3:C4
\item Board Elections {\bf 2},2:25; {\bf 2},3:23; {\bf 2},4:20
   \subitem Nomination form {\bf 2},3:24

\indexletter{F}
\item Feature Articles
   \subitem International quotations {\bf 2},3:5

\indexletter{H}
\item ``Hey --- it works!''
   \subitem Correct spacing for tables and arrays {\bf 2},3:10
   \subitem Experiences with tables {\bf 2},1:7
   \subitem Footnotes with verbatim material {\bf 2},4:9
   \subitem Headings in reference lists {\bf 2},2:8; 
      \subsubitem Old vs.\ new \LaTeX\ problem {\bf 2,}3:9
   \subitem \verb+\howto+ pattern match in \TeX\ {\bf 2},2:10
   \subitem Labelling equations by name {\bf 2},3:12
   \subitem Lining up decimal points {\bf 2},2:7
   \subitem More on margin marks {\bf 2},3:9
   \subitem 1-column material below 2-column {\bf 2},4:6
   \subitem Striking through text {\bf 2},4:7
   \subitem Thicker \verb"\hline"s in \LaTeX\ alignments {\bf 2},4:8

\indexletter{I}
\item In Memoriam 
   \subitem Yuri Melnichuk {\bf 2},4:26
\item Index {\bf 2},4:27
\item International quotations {\bf 2},3:5

\indexletter{L}
\item \AllTeX\ News
   \subitem Announcing Oz\TeX\ 1.5 {\bf 2},3:13
   \subitem Bib\TeX\ Hypercard stack {\bf 2},3:13
   \subitem Bits and pieces \ldots\ {\bf 2},4:11
   \subitem DC fonts --- Q and A (II) {\bf 2},1:10
   \subitem Files to print up font tables {\bf 2},1:13
   \subitem Jones Index of \TeX\ Macros {\bf 2},2:12
   \subitem The CTAN archives {\bf 2},3:15
   \subitem TTN electronic distribution {\bf 2},1:13
   \subitem TTN index {\bf 2},2:13
   \subitem UK \TeX\ archive on CD-ROM {\bf 2},3:14
\item \LaTeX3 Project
   \subitem Volunteer Work {\bf 2},2:3
   \subitem \LaTeX3 Update: Coming Soon! {\bf 2},4:11

\indexletter{N}
\item New Publications {\bf 2},1:6; {\bf 2},2:6; {\bf 2},3:4; {\bf
      2},4:3 
\item News from Around \ldots\
   \subitem {\it La Lettre GUTenberg\/} {\bf 2},2:20
   \subitem News from GUTenberg {\bf 2},1:15
   \subitem NTG happenings {\bf 2},2:19
   \subitem \TeX\ waves from Estonia {\bf 2},2:17
   \subitem uk $\rightarrow$ ue {\bf 2},1:14
\item Nomination form {\bf 2},3:24
\item Notices
  \subitem Technical Council {\bf 2},3:25; {\bf 2},4:21
  \subitem Conf.\ Planning Committee {\bf 2},3:26; {\bf 2},4:22
  \subitem Election Committee {\bf 2},4:20

\indexletter{O}
\item Other \TeX\ User Groups {\bf 2},1:27

\newpage


\indexletter{P}
\item Positions Available {\bf 2},4:2

\indexletter{R}
\item Reports on Meetings
   \subitem 6th Annual Nordic meeting (Nov.\ '92) {\bf 2},2:21
   \subitem BoF session at TUG'92 {\bf 2},1:16
   \subitem DANTE'93 in Chemnitz (March '93) {\bf 2},4:15
   \subitem Joint Conferences (April '94) {\bf 2},1:22
   \subitem News about CyrTUG \ldots\ {\bf 2},1:17
   \subitem NTG meeting (Nov.\ '92) {\bf 2},1:16
   \subitem NTG's Lustrum meeting (June '93) {\bf 2},3:22
   \subitem TUG'93 {\bf 2},1:20; {\bf 2},1:C4; 
            {\bf 2},2:C4; {\bf 2},3:19,
      \subsubitem {\bf 2},4:16
      \subsubitem News Updates {\bf 2},2:23; {\bf 2},3:19
   \subitem UKTUG (April '93) {\bf 2},1:19

\indexletter{T}
\item TUG Board Activities
   \subitem Board Elections {\bf 2},2:25; {\bf 2},3:23; {\bf 2},4:20 
   \subitem Summary of Annual Business Meeting {\bf 2},4:17

\newpage

\vglue.5pc

   \subitem Message from New President {\bf 2},1:23
   \subitem Technical Council {\bf 2},3:25; {\bf 2},4:21
   \subitem TUG Committees
      \subsubitem Conf.\ Planning Comm.\ {\bf 2},3:26; 
                  {\bf 2},4:22 
      \subsubitem Election Committee {\bf 2},4:20
\item Typographer's Inn {\bf 2},1:3; {\bf 2},2:4; {\bf 2},3:3;
      {\bf 2},4:4 

\indexletter{U}
\item Upcoming Events {\bf 2},1:25; {\bf 2},2:27; {\bf 2},3:28;
      {\bf 2},4:25
\item User Groups (list of) {\bf 2},1:27

\indexletter{Y}
\item ``You Rang~\ldots~?''
   \subitem All about ACT {\bf 2},4:12
   \subitem How can I get an indent after a sectioning 
      \subsubitem command? {\bf 2},3:16
   \subitem How do I change the line spacing? {\bf 2},3:18
   \subitem How do I get an abstract in the right place 
      \subsubitem in \LaTeX\ using \verb+\maketitle+? {\bf 2},3:17
   \subitem Q\&A:  How do I print envelopes? {\bf 2},2:14
   \subitem What is this column? {\bf 2},2:14
\end{list}
}

\vfill 

\hspace{-6cm}
   \begin{tabular}{||l||}
         \multicolumn{1}{c}{\Large\bf An Author's Ps{\small @}lm} \\ [6pt]
         \multicolumn{1}{p{10cm}}{There are times when an author may
            find it difficult to justify the choice of a particular
            word, style of syntax, or punctuation, yet know in 
            his or her h[e]art that a justification could be found
            and adduced. In those circumstances, the author may wish
            to seek the assistance of a Greater Power: I find the 
            following very reassuring:} \\
      \noalign{\vskip1pc}
      \hline
         \mbox{\empty}            \\ [-8pt] 
            Hart is my shepherd, I shall not want; \\
            He maketh me to punctuate correctly; \\
            He restoreth my missing apostrophes. \\
            Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of
                 Chicago \\
            I shall fear no evil; \\
            For He is with me; \\
            He annointeth my head with sound practices; \\
            My \verb"\hbox"es runneth over. \\
            Surely \verb"\goodness" shall follow me all the days of my
                 life, \\
            And I will dwell in the house of \TeX\ forever. \\ [6pt]
            \hfill Philip Taylor \\ 
      \hline
    \end{tabular}
\endgroup

\onecolumn

\newpage


%% Cover 3 (Table of Contents):

\thispagestyle{empty}

\begin{center}
   {\Sectionfont \TeX{} and TUG NEWS\\
    \medskip
                  Table of Contents}
\end{center}

\contentsline {section}{{\it Editorial}}{1}
\smallskip
\contentsline {section}{Positions Available}{2}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{New Publications \\
               \indent {\em Peter Schmitt}}{3}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{Typographer's Inn \\
               \indent {\em Peter Flynn}}{4}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{``Hey --- it works!''\\
               \indent {\em Jeremy Gibbons}}{}
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts One-column material below two-column
                           \quad {\em Ch.\ Thiele}}{6} 
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts Striking through text
                           \quad {\em David Lau}}{7} 
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts Thicker {\tt
                           \char'134hline}s in \LaTeX\ alignments 
                           \quad {\em Anita Z.\ Hoover}}{8} 
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts Footnotes with verbatim material
                           \quad {\em Jeremy Gibbons}}{9} 
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{\AllTeX\ News \\
               \indent \LaTeXe --- A New Version of \LaTeX \\
               \indent \qquad {\em Chris Rowley and Frank Mittelbach}}{10}
\contentsline {subsection}{\quad Bits and pieces \ldots \\
                           \qquad {\em Christina Thiele}}{11}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{You Rang \ldots? \\
               \indent {\em Ed Baker}}{12}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{A-in-\LaTeX\ Contest}{14}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{Reports on Meetings \\
               \indent \dante'93 in Chemnitz}{15} 
\contentsline {subsection}{\quad\enspace\tug\ts'93 at Aston University}{16}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{\tug\ Board Activities \\
               \indent Summary of Business Meeting (Aston)}{17}
\contentsline {subsection}{\quad\enspace Notices \\
                           \qquad\enspace 1993 Board Election Results}{20}
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts Technical Council}{21}
\contentsline {subsection}{\qquad\quad\ts Conference Planning
                                       Committee}{23} 
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{\TUG\ 1993 Course Schedule}{24}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{Upcoming Events}{25}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{In Memoriam: Yuri Melnichuk}{26}
\medskip
\contentsline {section}{1993 \ttn\ Index}{27}

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   \bf Volume 2, No.\ 4, 1993
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      \Large \bf TUG'94 \\
                 Santa Barbara, California \\
                 31 July -- 4 August \\ [1pc]
                 Call for Papers 
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\noindent The {\bf 15th Anniversary Meeting} of the \TeX\ Users Group
will be held in Santa Barbara, California from 31 July through 4
August 1994. Those wishing to present papers must have their titles
and outlines submitted to the program committee at {\tt tug94@tug.org}
by {\bf February~1, 1994}, completed papers by {\bf May~20, 1994}.

Since \TeX\ and \MF\ applications and interests are as varied as our
users, we are encouraging papers over the entire range of related
topics, with a particular {\bf focus on innovation}. Let us take a
fresh look at what we have and envision new areas of use.

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  \LARGE\bf American Mathematical Society\\
   \Large\bf Technical Support Department
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\noindent The {\small AMS} is seeking an individual to join
six other \TeX{} programmers in the Society's Technical Support
Department.  The successful candidate will possess a bachelor's degree
in {\small C.S.}\ (or equivalent), a minimum of three years'
experience in the publishing industry, and all or most of the
following qualifications:

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   \item Advanced \TeX{} macro writing
   \item C programming language
   \item Experience in electronic prepress techniques (electronic
         halftones, imposition, etc.)
   \item {\small VMS}, Unix, Mac-{\small OS}, {\small DOS}, and
         Windows operating systems 
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   \item Experience with traditional desktop publishing on Macintosh
         computers 
   \item Acute attention to detail, strong verbal and organizational
         skills 
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\noindent\small The Society is an equal opportunity employer and provides
excellent benefits.  The building is wheel-chair accessible.
Interested applicants should send r\'esum\'e and salary requirements
to: Director of Human Resources, American Mathematical Society, P.O.\
Box 6248, Providence, Rhode Island 02940.
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