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TUGBOAT Volume 19, Number 4 / December 1998 347 Addresses 348 A seasonal puzzle: XII / David Carlisle General Delivery 349 From the President / Mimi Jett 351 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton TUG election; TEX’98; The end of an era—Phyllis Winkler retires; Sans Serif; Sauter font distribution has a new maintainer; Goodies on CTAN Typography 353 Typographers’ inn / Peter Flynn 355 Typesetting with varying letter widths: New hope for your narrow columns / Miroslava Mis´akov´a Software & Tools 366 Editorial: EncTEX, by Petr Olˇs´ak / Barbara Beeton 366 EncTEX — A little extension of TEX / Petr Olˇs´ak 372 ConcTEX: Generating a concordance from TEX input files / Laurence Finston Language Support 403 Cyrillic encodings for LATEX2ε multi-language documents / A. Berdnikov, O. Lapko, M. Kolodin, A. Janishevsky, and A. Burykin 417 Romanized Indic and LATEX / Anshuman Pandey 419 New Greek fonts and the greek option of the babel package / Claudio Beccari and Apostolos Syropoulos Hints & Tricks 426 ‘Hey — it works!’ / Jeremy Gibbons Controlling abbreviations in BibTEX (Jeroen H. B. Nijhof); A small minus sign (Jeremy Gibbons); Ornamental rules (Christina Thiele) 428 The Treasure Chest: A package tour from CTAN — soul.sty / Christina Thiele Abstracts 431 Les Cahiers GUTenberg, Contents of issue 30 News & 433 Calendar Announcements 434 TUG’99 Announcement Late-Breaking 432 Production notes / Mimi Burbank News 432 Future issues TUG Business 437 Institutional members 438 TUG membership application Advertisements 439 TEX consulting and production services 440 Y&Y Inc. c 3 Blue Sky Research [A] ‘pi’ of type thrown on the floor constitutes no reading matter, though it contains its elements. The order, the sequence of letters in a sentence, is therefore paramount. Victor Hammer [1955] “Those Visible Marks...”, The forms of our letters Typophile Monograph, New Series, Number 6, 1988 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 19, NUMBER 4 • DECEMBER 1998 PORTLAND • OREGON • U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board During 1999, the communications of the TEXUsers Barbara Beeton, Editor Group will be published in four issues. The Mimi Burbank, Production Manager September issue (Vol. 20, No. 3) will contain the Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros Proceedings of the 1999 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, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, with an information copy to the Editor. Christina Thiele Submitting Items for Publication See page 347 for addresses. The next regular issue will be Vol. 20, No. 1. The Other TUG Publications deadline for technical items will be February 15; reports and similar items are due by March 1. TUG publishes the series TEXniques,inwhichhave Mailing is scheduled for March. Deadlines for other appeared reference materials and user manuals for future issues are listed in the Calendar, page 433. macro packages and TEX-related software, as well Manuscripts should be submitted to a member as the Proceedings of the 1987 and 1988 Annual of the TUGboat Editorial Board. Articles of general Meetings. Other publications on TEXnical subjects interest, those not covered by any of the editorial also appear from time to time. departments listed, and all items submitted on TUG is interested in considering additional magnetic media or as camera-ready copy should be manuscripts for publication. These might include addressed to the Editor, Barbara Beeton, or to the manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or Production Manager, Mimi Burbank (see addresses works on any other topic that might be useful to on p. 347). the TEX community in general. Provision can be Contributions in electronic form are encour- made for including macro packages or software in aged, via electronic mail, on diskette, or made computer-readable form. If you have any such items available for the Editor to retrieve by anonymous or know of any that you would like considered for FTP; contributions in the form of camera copy publication, send the information to the attention are also accepted. The TUGboat “style files”, for of the Publications Committee in care of the TUG use with either plain TEXorLATEX, are available office. “on all good archives”. For authors who have no network FTP access, they will be sent on request; Trademarks please specify which is preferred. Send e-mail to Many trademarked names appear in the pages of [email protected], or write or call the TUG office. TUGboat This is also the preferred address for submitting . If there is any question about whether a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates contributions via electronic mail. that it should be treated as if it is. The following Reviewers list of trademarks which appear in this issue may not be complete. Additional reviewers are needed, to assist in check- MS/DOS is a trademark of MicroSoft Corporation ing new articles for completeness, accuracy, and METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. presentation. Volunteers are invited to submit PC TEX is a registered trademark of Personal TEX, their names and interests for consideration; write to Inc. [email protected] or to the Editor, Barbara Beeton PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. (see address on p. 347). 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 TUG mailing lists, write or call the TUG office. 348 TUGboat, Volume 19 (1998), No. 4 A Seasonal Puzzle XII David Carlisle [email protected] \let~\catcode~‘76~‘A13~‘F1~‘j00~‘P2jdefA71F~‘7113jdefPALLF PA’’FwPA;;FPAZZFLaLPA//71F71iPAHHFLPAzzFenPASSFthP;A$$FevP A@@FfPARR717273F737271P;ADDFRgniPAWW71FPATTFvePA**FstRsamP AGGFRruoPAqq71.72.F717271PAYY7172F727171PA??Fi*LmPA&&71jfi Fjfi71PAVVFjbigskipRPWGAUU71727374 75,76Fjpar71727375Djifx :76jelse&U76jfiPLAKK7172F71l7271PAXX71FVLnOSeL71SLRyadR@oL RrhC?yLRurtKFeLPFovPgaTLtReRomL;PABB71 72,73:Fjif.73.jelse B73:jfiXF71PU71 72,73:PWs;AMM71F71diPAJJFRdriPAQQFRsreLPAI I71Fo71dPA!!FRgiePBt’el@ lTLqdrYmu.Q.,Ke;vz vzLqpip.Q.,tz; ;Lql.IrsZ.eap,qn.i. i.eLlMaesLdRcna,;!;h htLqm.MRasZ.ilk,% s$;z zLqs’.ansZ.Ymi,/sx ;LYegseZRyal,@i;@ TLRlogdLrDsW,@;G LcYlaDLbJsW,SWXJW ree @rzchLhzsW,;WERcesInW qt.’oL.Rtrul;e doTsW,Wk;Rri@stW aHAHHFndZPpqar.tridgeLinZpe.LtYer.W,:jbye Seasons greetings to all. This code should be input to plain TEX, not LATEX. For those without patience to figure out what the output will be, and to save the fingers and sanity of anyone who would like to try it out, the file can be found at http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb61/xii.tex. Enjoy! TUGboat, Volume 19 (1998), No. 4 349 ever seen. Indeed, this is one of the best things we General Delivery have done for our members. Compilation and dis- tribution of TEX Live was a joint effort by UK TUG, GUTenberg, DANTE and TUG, with additional sup- From the President port from the Czech/Slovak, Dutch, Indian and Pol- Mimi Jett ish groups. Thanks to all! Truly, without the com- bined efforts of everyone, this would not have hap- Greetings TUG Members! pened. As the year draws to a close and the new year DANTE CTAN TUG arrives, we pause to reflect on the events and accom- provides archive to all DANTE plishments we have enjoyed in 1998. I will review and members the year from my catbird seat, then go on to tell A three-CD set of the complete CTAN archive you about the fantastic meeting we had in Toru´n, was distributed to all TUG members in TUGboat and our plans for a celebration—and opportunities 19:2, thanks to a very generous donation from for discovery—at our 20th annual meeting in Van- DANTE. We are indeed grateful to DANTE for couver, BC, Canada, in August 1999. Once again, this very valuable resource. The importance of there is a good deal of administrivia to discuss. But, CTAN was immediately clear to me when I heard finally, we have the people and the plan in place to Anita Hoover exclaim “I haven’t written a macro in provide great service and benefits to our member- years...everything I need is on CTAN.” ship. We have elections coming up again, so please NTG TUG pay special attention to the words of wisdom from release of 4allTEX provided to Barbara Beeton, and take the initiative to nominate members yourself or someone else to the board, or for presi- In addition to the software and data resources al- dent. The more participation we have from our en- ready mentioned, we were also fortunate to have the tire membership, the stronger we are. At this time, opportunity to deliver 4allTEX, the popular Win- we have an extremely wonderful board; active in dows TEX program, to our members. The program many aspects of creating benefits and learning for was developed and donated by Erik Frambach and our members; willing to work across barriers; and Wietse Dol at NTG, with the cost of manufactur- gracious and respectful to each other; this group is a ing and duplication covered, once again, by DANTE. delight to work with. Most of our board has agreed Isn’t it nice to have generous relatives? to stand for re-election, that is good news! There are open seats on the in-coming board even if our Confusion reigns after Microsoft standing group stays, so please think about it. announcement An amusing, and all-too-believable article was 1998: The year in review posted as an April Fools’ Day prank claiming that Release of TEXLive3 to TUG members Dr.KnuthhadsoldoutTEX to Microsoft.