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TUGBOAT Volume 21, Number 1 / March 2000 3 Addresses General Delivery 5 From the President / Mimi Jett 6 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Software & Tools 7XΥMTEX (Version 2.00) as implementation of the XΥM notation and the XΥM markup language / Shinsaku Fujita and Nobuya Tanaka Resources 15 The TEXUsersGroupCTAN site makes a move / Jim Hefferon 16 TEXLive5andtheTEX Catalogue / The TUGboat Team 17 Graham Williams’ TEX Catalogue Macros 91 The bag of tricks / Victor Eijkhout News & 92 Calendar Announcements 4 TUG2000 — The 21st Annual Conference Late-Breaking 93 Production notes / Mimi Burbank News 93 Future issues Cartoon 15 Don Knuth finally sells out. / David Farley TUG Business 94 Institutional members 95 TUG membership application Advertisements 96 TEX consulting and production services c3 Blue Sky Research TEXUsersGroup Board of Directors Memberships and Subscriptions Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana† TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published quarterly Mimi Jett, President ∗+ ∗+ by the TEX Users Group, 1466 NW Naito Parkway, Kristoffer Rose , Vice President Suite 3141, Portland, OR 97209-2820, U.S.A. Don DeLand∗+, Treasurer Arthur Ogawa∗+, Secretary 2000 dues for individual members are as follows: Barbara Beeton Ordinary members: $75. Karl Berry Students: $45. Kaja Christiansen Membership in the T X Users Group is for the E Susan DeMeritt calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Stephanie Hogue for the year in which membership begins or is Judy Johnson+ renewed. Individual membership is open only to Ross Moore named individuals, and carries with it such rights Patricia Monohon and responsibilities as voting in TUGelections. A Cheryl Ponchin membership form is provided on page 95. Petr Sojka TUGboat subscriptions are available to organi- Philip Taylor zations and others wishing to receive TUGboat in a Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director † name other than that of an individual. 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Permission is granted to copy and distribute transla- Fax tions of this publication or of individual items from this +1 503 223-3960 publication into another language, under the above condi- tions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be included in translations approved by the TEXUsers World Wide Web Group instead of in the original English. Copyright to individual articles is retained by the http://www.tug.org/ authors. http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/ Printed in U.S.A. Problems not resolved? The TUGBoard wants to hear from you: Please email to [email protected] TEX is a trademark of the American Mathematical Society. There is always a danger of becoming so entranced with speed and efficiency that we may forget that suitability to use is still the most important element of any typographic job. Oscar Ogg The 26 Letters, Revised edition (1971) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 21, NUMBER 1 • MARCH 2000 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board During 2000, the communications of the TEXUsers Barbara Beeton, Editor Group will be published in four issues. The Mimi Burbank, Production Manager September issue (Vol. 21, No. 3) will contain the Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros Proceedings of the 2000 TUG Annual Meeting. Jeremy Gibbons, Associate Editor, TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of mem- “Hey — it works!” bership to all members. Alan Hoenig, Associate Editor, Fonts Submissions to TUGboat are reviewed by vol- Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, unteers and checked by the Editor before publica- Topics in the Humanities tion. However, the authors are still assumed to be Production Team: the experts. Questions regarding content or accu- Barbara Beeton, Mimi Burbank (Manager), Robin racy should therefore be directed to the authors, Fairbairns, Michael Sofka, Christina Thiele with an information copy to the Editor. See page 3 for addresses. Submitting Items for Publication Other TUG Publications The next regular issue will be Vol. 21, No. 2. Production and mailing have been delayed; the TUG publishes the series TEXniques, in which have second and third issues for 2000 are expected to be appeared reference materials and user manuals for sent to the printer in October. Deadlines for future macro packages and TEX-related software, as well issues are listed in the Calendar, page 92. as the Proceedings of the 1987 and 1988 Annual Manuscripts should be submitted to a member Meetings. Other publications on TEXnical subjects of the TUGboat Editorial Board. Articles of general also appear from time to time. interest, those not covered by any of the editorial TUG is interested in considering additional departments listed, and all items submitted on manuscripts for publication. These might include magnetic media or as camera-ready copy should be manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or addressed to the Editor, Barbara Beeton, or to the works on any other topic that might be useful to Production Manager, Mimi Burbank (see addresses the TEX community in general. Provision can be on p. 3). made for including macro packages or software in Contributions in electronic form are encour- computer-readable form. If you have any such items aged, via electronic mail, on diskette, or made or know of any that you would like considered for available for the Editor to retrieve by anonymous publication, send the information to the attention FTP; contributions in the form of camera copy of the Publications Committee at [email protected] are also accepted. The TUGboat “style files”, for or in care of the TUG office. use with either plain TEXorLATEX, are available from CTAN. For authors who have no network Trademarks FTP access, they will be sent on request; please Many trademarked names appear in the pages of specify which is preferred. Send e-mail to TUG- TUGboat. If there is any question about whether [email protected], or write or call the TUG office. This is also the preferred address for submitting a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates that it should be treated as if it is. The following contributions via electronic mail. list of trademarks which appear in this issue may Reviewers not be complete. MS/DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation Additional reviewers are needed, to assist in check- METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. ing new articles for completeness, accuracy, and PC TEX is a registered trademark of Personal TEX, presentation. Volunteers are invited to submit Inc. their names and interests for consideration; write to PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. [email protected] or to the Editor, Barbara Beeton techexplorer is a trademark of IBM Research. (see address on p. 3). TEXandAMS-TEX are trademarks of the American Mathematical Society. TUGboat Advertising and Mailing Lists Textures is a trademark of Blue Sky Research. Unix For information about advertising rates, publication is a registered trademark of X/Open Co. Ltd. schedules or the purchase of TUGmailing lists, write or call the TUG office. Wadham College, Oxford, UK TUG 2000 August 13th–16th, 2000 The 21st Annual Conference of the TEX Users Group will take place at Wadham College, Oxford, between Sunday 13th August and Wednesday 16th August 2000. Tutorials will be given on the 17th and 18th August. The Location Oxford is a small, pleasant city with an internationally famous university. The city is full of ancient buildings, beautiful gardens, libraries and bookshops. The conference will be held in Wadham College, a traditional college (founded 1613) in the centre of the city. Oxford is easily reached from London, and is a good starting point for visiting much of southern England. The Conference The conference will feature talks on all aspects of TEX and its relationship to both traditional and electronic document preparation and processing. The Annual General Meeting of the TEX Users’ Group will be held during the period of the conference. We expect the cost to a typical