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The Communications of the Users Group Volume 13, Number 4, December 1992 Users Group Board of Directors Memberships and Subscriptions Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of m-arcanat TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published four times Malcolm Clark, President* a year plus one supplement by the rn Users Ken Dreyhaupt*, Vice President Group. As of December 1, 1992, the TUG office is Bill Woolf * , Treasurer moving from 653 North Main Street, P. 0.Box 9506, Peter Flynn*, Secretary Providence, RI 02940, U.S. A., to Balboa Building, Peter Abbott, Vice-president for UKWUG Room 307, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA Bernard Gaulle, Vice-president for GUTenberg 93101, U.S.A. Roswitha Graham, Vice-President for the Nordic countries 1993 dues for individual members are as follows: Kees van der Laan, Vice-president for NTG Ordinary members: $60 Joachim Lammarsch, Vice-President for DANTE rn Students: $30 Barbara Beeton Membership in the TfjX Users Group is for the cal- Luzia Dietsche endar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat and Michael Ferguson and TUG News for the year in which member- Raymond Goucher, Founding Executive Director' ship begins or is renewed. Individual membership Yannis Haralambous is open only to named individuals, and carries with Doug Henderson it such rights and responsibilities as voting in the Alan Hoenig annual election. A membership form is provided on Anita Hoover page 000. Mimi Jett TUGboat subscriptions are available to organi- David Kellerman zations and others wishing to receive TUGboat in a Nico Poppelier name other than that of an individual. Subscription Jon Radel rates: North America $60 a year; all other countries, Christina Thiele delivery by surface mail $60, by air mail $80. Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fontst Second-class postage paid at Providence, RI, and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send *member of executive committee t honorary address changes to the rn Users Group, P. 0. Box 9506, Providence, RI 02940, U.S. A. Addresses Telephone General correspondence: 805-899-4673 Institutional Membership 7&X Users Group Institutional Membership is a means of showing P. 0. Box 869 Fax continuing interest in and support for both Santa Barbara, CA 93102 [not known at press time] and the TEX Users Group. For further information, contact the TUG office. Payments: rn Users Group Electronic Mail P. 0. 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CA 93101 tions of this publication or of individual items from this publication into another language, under the above condi- tions for modified versions, except that this permission notice !l&X is a trademark of the American Mathematical may be included in translations approved by the 7$X Users Group instead of in the original English. Society. Some individual authors may wish to retain traditional copyright rights to their own articles. Such articles can be identified by the presence of a copyright notice thereon. I do not know when the term "fine art" was invented and the breach between it and craftsmanship began to widen, but I have come to believe that it was a sorry day for both. T. M. Cleland "Progress" in the Graphic Arts (1949) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USERS GROUP EDITORBARBARA BEETON VOLUME13, NUMBER4 DECEMBER1992 PROVIDENCE RHODEISLAND . U.S.A. 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Questions regarding content or accu- TUG publishes the series mniques, in which have racy should therefore be directed to the authors, appeared reference materials and user manuals for with an information copy to the Editor. macro packages and w-related software, as well as the Proceedings of the 1987 and 1988 Annual Submitting Items for Publication Meetings. Other publications on mnical subjects The next regular issue will be Vol. 14, No. 1; also appear from time to time. TUG is interested in considering additional deadlines for that issue will have passed by the manuscripts for publication. These might include time this issue is mailed. Deadlines for Vol. 14, manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or No. 2 are February 16, 1993, for technical items, works on any other topic that might bguseful to and March 16, 1993, for reports and similar items. the 'I)$ community in general. Provision can be Mailing dates for these two issues are scheduled for March and May. 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It has been an essential General Delivery part of the UTm3 project to inform the rest of the world of their progress and current thinking. This places an additional burden on the key personnel The back benches beckon in the project, but since Urn users will be among the beneficiaries of the project, they must be kept Malcolm Clark informed. The same sort of argument must be true It might be appropriate to use this last opportunity for any other projects which may have far reaching to write as the President of the group to review the effects on the w using community. past year and produce a 'state of the nation' report. Each year brings a few new user groups: the Rather than do this, I will simply present a brief national and language-based groups tend to attract mosaic of themes which reflect some of my current most interest and attention, but we should not concerns. forget the many small 'local' groups which are I have always held the view that the TEX Users around. This summer I had the pleasure of Group is an international group. A cursory glance meeting many of the Santa Barbara User Group. at the membership list reveals many members in Stimulated by meeting these enthusiastic and able many countries. And this is not just because people, Chris Rowley and I are seeking to initiate of the use of english as the lingua franca of the the West Hampstead 7&X group here in London. scientific and scholarly world. It is also because There is surely scope for many more! At a rather TUG is at the heart of a wide range of m-related larger scale, I recently attended a conference in activities (as usual, I use Tl-jX as a shorthand L'viv in Ukraine which ended by recommending for all the other bits and pieces which cluster that a Ukrainian User Group be founded.