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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/newsletr/losample.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/newsletr/losample.tex new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..660019319ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/plain/newsletr/losample.tex @@ -0,0 +1,380 @@ +% Save file as: LOSAMPLE.TEX Source: FILESERV@SHSU.BITNET +%% TITLE.TEX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\begingroup +\font\HUGE=cmss17 %scaled\magstep2 + +\pageheader{}{}{} +\pagefooter{}{}{} + +\setbox0=\vbox{\hsize=2.25in + \vskip4.25in + {\baselineskip=21pt + \centerline{\HUGE Vol.\ 1\ \ No.\ 4} + \centerline{\HUGE June 1990} + } + } + +\vbox to9in{\unvbox0 + +\vskip 1.75in +\vfil +\vbox{\hbox to\hsize{\hfill +\leftshadowbox{ + \hsize=6in + \vsize=1.75in + \vbox to\vsize{ + \vfil + {\baselineskip=19pt + \centerline{\HUGE Inside This Issue:} + } + \vfil + \centerline{$\bullet$\ "The State of Where," by \RRM} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ An interview with Jeffrey Sackett, by Hunter Goatley} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ Interviews with Al Sarrantonio and Kazue Tanaka, + by \RRM} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ A letters column} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ Reports on NECON X and the 1990 WFC} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ A Joe R. Lansdale update} + \centerline{$\bullet$\ News of \McC's new novel \book{Boy's Life}} + \vfil + }} +\hfill} +\vfil +}} % End of \vbox + +\eject +\endgroup + +%% EDITORIAL.TEX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% +% Lights Out! Vol. 2 No. 1 +% Editorial page +% +\newbox\edboxone \newbox\edboxtwo % \newbox\edbox3 \newbox\edbox4 +\newdimen\edcolwidth + +% +%\edcolwidth=\pagewidth +%\advance\edcolwidth by -\wd\edboxone +%\advance\edcolwidth by -\columnsep +%\advance\edcolwidth by -\columnsep +% +%\setbox\edboxtwo=\vbox to 9in{\hsize\edcolwidth +%%{\hsize 4in +\articletitle{"And Now, the End Is Near\edots"}{A Look at the Future by Hunter +Goatley} + +\begincolumns{2} +\ninepoint \rm + +\noindent +Well, once again, finally! As you all know, I think, +this issue has been delayed because my family and I moved again, this +time from Knoxville to Bowling Green, KY. Again, I appreciate your +patience and understanding. + +Each time I go to press, the issue seems to change from what I originally +intended. I've been telling you for awhile that this issue would feature a new +McCammon short story---well, it doesn't. It does, however, have an essay +entitled "The State of Where," written by \McC\ exclusively for \LO\ \ The +essay describes where McCammon is in his career, and where he's going. I think +you'll find it interesting. + +Now the bad news. As you probably gathered from the title above, I'm +extinguishing the lights on \LO\ \ Despite my best efforts, finding the time to +devote to the newsletter is becoming more and more difficult. +The fact that I've only been able to do three +issues in the last 13 months shows that something's not right. +There are several reasons that I won't be able to keep up \LO: + +\beginlist\parindent=18pt +\item{1.)} Production costs have steadily risen as I've moved around the + country. The last issue and this one were more expensive than + the previous three issues had been; in fact, much of the + subscription renewals went to pay for those issues. I also + severely + over-estimated the growth of \LO---the renewals since June + will not cover the cost of four more issues; more on that in + a minute. +\item{2.)} I \slant{like} my job now. In the beginning, \LO\ was a + much-needed diversion from a programming job that had become + unbearable---only I didn't realize it at the time. Now that + I'm out of the "hell-job," I find myself less willing to spend + my free time working on \LO +\item{3.)} I've been stepping up my writing for the technical journal + \book{VAX Professional}. Since 1986 I've written 16 articles + for them; this year I'm to start a series of programming + articles that will probably be published as a book. +\item{4.)} I'm going to be teaching some programming classes this fall at + Western Kentucky University. +\item{5.)} And most importantly, my almost-two-year-old daughter Margaret + wants---and should have---more + time to spend with Daddy. Lately, between work and \LO\ she + and Dana have had to spend too much time without me---and vice + versa. +\endlist + +Since renewals have been lower than anticipated and new subscriptions have been +virtually non-existent, I cannot afford to publish four more issues of +\LO---instead of offering refunds, I've decided that there will be one more +issue of \LO\ sometime later this year. This special issue will be longer than +previous issues and will be available to \slant{current subscribers only}. +Book dealers will not be selling them and I won't have any extra copies for +sale. + +Rick McCammon has been a joy to work with, and when I told him of my plans +to discontinue \LO\ he offered to help me make the last issue very special +for you. Therefore, the next and final issue of \LO\ will feature not one, +but \slant{two} excerpts from abandoned \RRM\ novels! + +Though Rick once told me that he would never show \book{The Address} to anyone, +he has volunteered to let me publish what he had written at the time he shelved +the book. That's about 50 manuscript pages. Rick is also providing me with the +beginning of \book{The Midnight Man}, a novel he started last year. In addition, +the issue will feature a brand-new interview with Rick, where we'll discuss +\book{Boy's Life} and more about Rick's plans for the future. I'll be driving +to Birmingham in March or April to sit down and talk with Rick, so if you have +any questions you want me to ask him, please send them soon. + +As you can see, I'm planning for \LO\ to go with a {\ss BANG!} And since the +next issue is for current subscribers only, there won't be very many copies. +I've got plenty of back issues of issues 2 and 3 sitting around being a fire +hazard; if you'd like extra copies of those issues, send \$1 for each copy and +I'll mail them out immediately. The \$1 will cover postage and the envelope(s). +There are no limits, except that the offer is available only to current +subscribers. I still have some of issues 1 and 4, but I'm not sure how many; +let me know if you want those issues and I'll include them as long as they last. +Please send all correspondence to the address at the bottom of this page. And +thanks for your patience---the last issue will be out this summer. + +\vskip.5\baselineskip \hrule \vskip.5\baselineskip +{\eightpoint\ss\noindent +On the cover: the artwork for McCammon's upcoming novel, \book{Boy's Life}, +and a magazine illustration accompanying a Japanese translation of "The Thang." +\eoa} +\endcolumns + + +\vfill + +\setbox0=\vbox to 1.25in{\hsize=125pt% + \vfil\elevenpoint + \centerline{\bf Lights Out!} + \vfil\hrule\vfil + \centerline{The} + \centerline{\RRM} + \centerline{Newsletter} + \vfil \hrule \vfil\ninepoint + \line{Vol.~2\ \ No.~1\hfill February 1991\hskip2pt} + \vfil + } + +\setbox1=\vbox to 1.25in{\hsize=120pt% + \vfil\vfil + \centerline{\ss Published by:} + \centerline{\bf Hunter Goatley} + \vfil \hrule \vfil + \centerline{\LO} + \centerline{\POBox} + \centerline{\CityState} + \centerline{\ZipCode} + \vfil\vfil + } + +\setbox2=\vbox to 1.25in{\hsize=120pt% + \vfil\noindent\eightpoint\ss\parindent=6pt\narrower + Thanks to Paddy McKillop, Jodi Strissel, Paul Schulz, Adam Rothberg, + \& you. + Thanks especially to Jeffrey Sackett, Kazue Tanaka, Al Sarrantonio, + Joe Lansdale, and Rick \& Sally McCammon. + Incredibly special thanks to Dana \& Margaret Goatley! + % for putting up with me! + \par + \vfil} + +\setbox3=\vbox to 1.25in{\hsize=125pt% + \vfil\noindent\eightpoint\ss\leftskip=6pt + This newsletter was typeset on a Digital VAX 6320, using the \TeX\ + typesetting system developed by Donald~E. Knuth. + \par + \vfil \hrule \vfil + \noindent\smallcopyright\ 1991 by Hunter Goatley. All rights reserved. + Permission to reprint required.\par + \vfil} + + +\setbox\edboxone=\vbox{\hbox{\box0\vrule\box1\vrule\box2\vrule\box3}} + +\setbox\edboxone=\vbox to1.5in{ + \boxitspace=6pt + \vfill + \boxit{\unvbox\edboxone} + \vfill + } + +\box\edboxone + +\eject % Force a page break + +%% KAZUE.TEX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +% +% TeX file: KAZUE.TEX +% +% Desc: Interview with Kazue Tanaka, by Robert R. McCammon +% +% Interview Date: 03-NOV-1990 +% Transcription Date: 24-NOV-1990 +% +\articletitle{Interview: Kazue Tanaka}{Conducted by \RRM; transcribed by Hunter Goatley} + +\begincolumns{2} +\definefigs{2} % Define figures for up to 7 pages + +%\definefig{2}{2}{top}{\Certo} + +%\definefig{3}{2}{middle}{\Quote{% +% I think it's a challenge to see the world +% through different eyes. And I think that's what writing, in a way, is +% all about.\qRM}} + +%\handlefigures +% +% "RM:" in 10pt roman is 22.xx pts wide, so let's put these things in boxes +% that size with about 5pts whitespace following them. +% +\def\RM:{\vskip6pt\noindent\hbox to27pt{\bf RM:\hfil}} +\def\KT:{\vskip6pt\noindent\hbox to27pt{\bf KT:\hfil}} + + +\ednote{Ms.~Kazue Tanaka is a Japanese writer/translator who has translated +\RRM's stories from \book{Night Visions IV} into Japanese. The following +interview was conducted at the 1990 World Fantasy Convention, where Ms.~Tanaka +finished up a month-long visit to the United States. Ms.~Tanaka is currently +at work translating \McC's 1981 vampire epic, \book{They Thirst}. +%\hfill\break\vskip-12pt +} + +\RM: I'd like to know how you go about translating, say, one of my books. +Do you read the book first? + +\KT: Yes. Usually I read the book a couple of times and then I start +translating. Maybe you know that we have a completely different grammatical +diction from English, so we can't put a word in the same order in Japanese. +Usually I read a sentence and grasp the meaning of it and reconstruct it in +Japanese. + +\RM: I would think that would be very difficult to do. + +\KT: It is! + +\RM: I'm sure it is, because there's such a great difference in the grammatical +form. You have to be very careful, I guess, in terms of reading in English and +translating to Japanese. That seems to me to be very difficult. How did you +train to do this? + +\KT: Usually we have some kind of mentor or teacher. + +\RM: Were you like an apprentice, and someone teaches you to do this? + +\KT: Yes. We put the original stories [beside] the translations and compare +the sentences. + +\RM: How long would it take you to translate \book{They Thirst}? + +\KT: It depends on how long the story is. \book{They Thirst} will take at +least three months. How long did it take you to write~it? + +\RM: Well, it took about six or seven months to write. + +\KT: Maybe I'll need that kind of time, too! + +\RM: But it's almost like, if you're interpreting, you're almost doing some +writing yourself. If you're making something more concise, or---do you do that? +Are you abridging? Do you think anything gets changed in the translation? + +\KT: We try not to change, but sometimes a little change is necessary. We +don't have some things that you have here in America. For instance, some brand +names. We don't have the culture of your country, and the Japanese readers +don't know if I translated correctly, but it is impossible for Japanese readers +to understand that culture. Maybe, in that case, things get changed sometimes. + +\RM: Do you feel that you interpret the story more so your countrymen can +understand what's going on in the book? Do you think you add more of your +culture to the story? + +\KT: Basically, we don't add anything, we don't take away anything. But in +that case, we explain [the cultural differences] after the story in an +afterword. + +\RM: How many books have you translated? + +\KT: Maybe twelve, or something. Among them, \book{Brain Child}, by John Saul, +and some mysteries. I'm going to translate some stories of Orson Scott Card's. + +\RM: I think it would be very interesting, if I could read Japanese, to read my +book and see what the changes are. Or how it's geared toward that culture. + +\KT: Conversation---when people talk---is very difficult to put +into Japanese. If the character is a woman, a man, a boy, or a girl, Japanese +has a very distinctive way of speaking. Especially between a man and woman. +English does not have as much difference. + +\RM: Well, that's fascinating. I think it would be a very tough thing to +do---to translate something into an entirely different culture and still have +the flavor of the American version, at least. I wouldn't want to do it---I +don't think I could do it very well. + +\KT: Your stories are very American---that may be why they appeal to Japanese +readers. + +\RM: Really? I was going to ask you why my stories appeal---if they do +appeal---to Japanese readers. Well, first, I didn't know that horror fiction +was so popular in Japan. Is it? Is it becoming more popular? What do you +think the situation is? + +\KT: Your [novels] have not been translated at all yet. So, apart from you, +Stephen King and Dean~R. Koontz are very popular---they are as popular as +other big writers. Other horror writers are not so well-known. Some very keen +fans like American horror. + +\RM: Why do you think that is? King and Koontz are definitely very American +writers. Do you think that's their appeal---the American style? + +\KT: Yes, I do. + +\RM: Not necessarily because of the story being told, but because maybe it's +told in an American voice? + +\KT: Yes, sometimes. I'm still trying to [learn] the American voice---it's +very hard to do. + +\RM: Well, I know that's very tough to do, and I'm looking forward to seeing +the books when they are translated. + +\KT: I'm looking forward to it too!\eoa + +\endcolumns + +%% NEXTTIME.TEX %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% +\vfill + +\begingroup +\font\HUGE=cmss17 %scaled\magstep2 +\setbox0=\vbox{\hsize=5in + \twelvepoint\ss\noindent% + The final issue of \LO\ will feature excerpts from \RRM's unpublished + novels \book{The Address} and \book{The Midnight Man}, a brand-new + interview with \McC\ about \book{Boy's Life}, more author + interviews, and the latest news! Coming Summer 1991! + \vfill% + } + +\centerline{\shadowbox{\vbox to 1in{% + \hsize=6in + \vfil + \offinterlineskip + \noindent\hfil\box0\hfil + \vfil + }}} + +\endgroup |