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Over the years, . the computer revolution has left its mark in a negative way: the craftsmanship that went into certain parts of composing type has been sacrificed. We're not suggesting that we go back to the old ways, but we are making a plea toward slowly raising the current standard through increasing awareness of the issues and the opportunities. Seybold Report on Publishing Systems (August 1990) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USERS GROUP EDITORBARBARA BEETON VOLUME11, NUMBER4 NOVEMBER1990 PROVIDENCE. RHODEISLAND U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Committee During 1991, the communications of the 'l&X Users Barbara Beeton, Editor Group will be published in four issues. Two issues Ron Whitney, Production Assistant will consist primarily of Proceedings. one of m90, Helmut Jiirgensen, Associate Editor, Software Cork (Vol. 12. No. 1). and the other of the 1991 Georgia K.M. Tobin, Associate Editor, Font Forum TUG Annual Meeting (Vol. 12, No. 3). Don Hosek, Associate Editor, Output Devices TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of mem- Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros bership to all members. Jackie Damrau, Associate Editor, UQX Submissions to TUGboat are for the most part Alan Hoenig and Mitch Pfeffer, Associate Editors, reproduced with minimal editing, and any questions Typesetting on Personal Computers regarding content or accuracy should be directed See page 483 for addresses. to the authors, with an information copy to the Editor. Other TUG Publications Submitting Items for Publication TUG publishes the series Wniques, in which have The deadline for submitting technical items for appeared user manuals for macro packages and Vol. 12, No. 2, is February 19, 1991, and for news w-related software, as well as the Proceedings items, March 19, 1991; the issue will be mailed in of the 1987 and 1988 Annual Meetings. Other May. (Deadlines for future issues are listed in the publications on mnical subjects also appear from Calendar, page 666.) time to time. Manuscripts should be submitted to a member TUG is interested in considering additional of the TUGboat Editorial Committee. Articles of manuscripts for publication. These might include general interest, those not covered by any of the manuals. instructional materials, documentation, or editorial departments listed, and all items submitted works on any other topic that might be useful to on magnetic media or as camera-ready copy should the community in general. Provision can be be addressed to the Editor, in care of the TUG made for including macro packages or software in office. computer-readable form. If you have any such Contributions in electronic form are encour- items or know of any that you would like considered aged, via electronic mail, on magnetic tape or for publication, contact Karen Butler at the TUG diskette, or transferred directly to the American office. Mathematical Society's computer; contributions in the form of camera copy are also accepted. The Trademarks TUGboat "style files", for use with either plain TFJ or Urn,will be sent on request; please specify Many trademarked names appear in the pages of TUGboat. If there is any question about whether which is preferred. For instructions, write or call Karen Butler at the TUG office. a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates that it should be treated as if it is. The following An address has been set up on the AMS com- puter for receipt of contributions sent via electronic list of trademarks which appear in this issue may not be complete. mail: TUGboat @Math.AMS . corn on the Internet. APS p5 is a trademark of Autologic, Inc. TUGboat Advertising and Mailing Lists DOS and MS/DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation For information about advertising rates, publication LaserJet, PCL, and DeskJet are trademarks of schedules or the purchase of TUG mailing lists, write Hewlett-Packard, Inc. or call Karen Butler at the TUG office. METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. PC w is a registered trademark of Personal m, Inc. Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. m and AMS-~are trademarks of the American Mathematical Society. UNIXis a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. TUGboat, Volume 11 (1990), No. 4 Font standardization General Delivery One joint effort of TUG and the European groups on which excellent progress has been made is the definition of a 256-character font standard for w; From the President an agreement is rapidly needed here if &bit fonts are Nelson H.F. Beebe to become a reality for worldwide TEX users without also becoming a terrible barrier to document porta- Meetings bility. We hope to be able to report further on this This has been a busy year for TUG, and for me. soon (see Michael Ferguson's "Report QXI Multilin- I've just returned from Ireland and Britain after a gual Activities", p. 514, in this issue of TUGboat). very successful '!$X190 meeting in Cork and a short For background, see the recent TUGboat articles family vacation. 11, 2, 31 and references cited therein. The TUG'S0 meeting in June in College Sta- tuglib archive server tion is now behind us, and the Proceedings have ap peared in record time as TUGboat 11, no. 3; copies The tuglib server mentioned in my editorial in were available on September 10 in Cork. I'd like to TUGboat 11, no. 1. is now fully functional at the thank the authors, the program committee, the Pro- Internet address science. utah. edu. A preliminary ceedings editor, and the TUG office for contributing description appeared in '!$Xline 11, which was dis- to the rapid completion of the job. tributed at the Cork meeting. At Utah, our vener- The Cork meeting was well attended. with 175 able 12.5 year-old DEC-20 is slated for retirement participants from 23 countries. I was pleased to on 31 October 1990. The name science .utah.edu have an opportunity to meet for the first time so will live on as an alias for its replacement, a UNIx many Europeans with whom I've exchanged letters machine, so as not to confuse the thousands of peo- and e-mail. Despite rain the week before and af- ple who have used it. Because this will change some ter the meeting, the weather cooperated and gave of the details of tuglib access, I decided to delay an us sunshine and warmth all during the conference in-depth article about tuglib until the next issue of week. Our greatest thanks go to Peter Flynn and TUGboat, when the changeover will be behind us. his support staff at Cork, the TUG office, the pro- Bibliography archive gram committee, and all who attended for making it such an interesting meeting. Meals were served in Earlier this year, I began a bibliography project the dining hall adjacent to the building where the which is now well underway. Its eventual goal is lectures took place, and I think many will agree that to provide public access to a collection of BIBW- the food was possibly the best we have enjoyed at format bibliographies of any TUG meeting. publications about '!$X (files texbookl .*) The weekend before the Cork meeting was de- books and journals that use w for their pro- voted to a long TUG Board meeting on Saturday duction (files t exbook:!. *) (which resumed again Wednesday evening), and a journals that accept articles written in W European summit meeting on Sunday. The Board (files t exbook3. *) has been dealing with difficult and divisive issues literate programming that are still not resolved; I expect to schedule a POSTSCRIPT two-day board meeting at the TUG'S1 meeting in digital typography Boston. as well as to collect bibliographies for many scien- The European summit meeting was an oppor- tific journals in fields that I'm interested in. How- tunity for the heads of TUG and the European ever, I am also willing to deposit there contributed groups (five in western Europe, with five more in the bibliographies for journals in any field of science or early stages of formation in Czechoslovakia, Hun- engineering. gary, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia) to An e-mail message to meet and talk about common issues. There are ru- [email protected] mors of other regional groups forming, including one in Ireland. According to the March 1990 member- with the text send index from tex/bib will re- ship list, TUG itself has members from 48 countries. turn an index of current holdings. It is intended that these holdings will be available on computer- readable magnetic media for users who lack e-mail access. TUGboat, Volume 11 (1990), No. 4 A bibliography consists of at least two files: keywords = "bibtex, cite tag, latex", (1) a J2-7&X file that prints the entire bibliography, supported = "yes", together with a title page, a version date and num- docstring = "This style file causes ber, and a short prefacing text; and (2) one or more the bibliography cite BIB^ .bib files that hold the actual entries. The tags to be displayed in bibliography produced this way is in two-column for- boldface text in a mat with alphanumeric tags. This choice was in- right-adjusted framed box over each entry in a tentional: it produces narrow columns that stress bibliography. This m'sformatting abilities, and it detects certain er- serves as a handy rors in author names (such as an incorrectly placed reference when the tags Jr.) that would not be caught if numeric citations are needed for a \tits() were used. Explicit hyphenations are supplied to macro. reduce, if not completely eliminate, overfull boxes. The \emergencystretch feature of W 3.0 is most For flexibility, the helpful in reducing the rivers of white that otherwise user may redefine tend to occur with narrow columns; this support is \thecitetag to change hidden in an option file, bibmods.