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TUGBOAT Volume 18, Number 1 / March 1997 3 Addresses 4 Notice regarding 1997 TEX Users Group election General Delivery 5 From the President / Michel Goossens 5 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton Update to PSTricks; Quote out of context— Colophon 6 Erratum: Amsterdam, 13 March 1996 — Knuth meets NTG members, TUGboat 17, no. 4, pp. 342–355 Dreamboat 6NTS&ε-TEX: a status report / Philip Taylor METAP OST Software & Tools 12 A GNU Emacs editing mode for METAFONT and sources / Ulrik Vieth Philology 17 The Traditional Arabic Typecase, Unicode, TEXandMETAFONT / Yannis Haralambous 30 A Medieval Icelandic manuscript: The making of a diplomatic edition / Andrea de Leeuw van Weenen Book Reviews 37 Writing with TEX,andTEX&LATEX: Drawing & Literate Programming, by Eitan M. Gurari / Michael D. Sofka Tutorial / Surveys 39 Typesetting mathematics for science and technology according to ISO 31/XI / Claudio Beccari A L TEX 48 A LATEX Tour, part 3: mfnfss, psnfss and babel / David Carlisle News & Announcements 56 Calendar Late-Breaking 57 Production notes / Mimi Burbank News 57 Future issues 58 TUG’97 Update TUG Business 59 New members of the TUG Board 61 Institutional members 62 TUG membership application Advertisements 63 TEX consulting and production services 57 Index of advertisers TEXUsersGroup Board of Directors Memberships and Subscriptions Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana† TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published quarterly Michel Goossens, President ∗ ∗ by the TEX Users Group, P. O. Box 1239, Three Yannis Haralambous , Vice President Rivers, CA 93271-1239, U.S.A.. Mimi Jett∗, Treasurer Sebastian Rahtz∗, Secretary 1997 dues for individual members are as follows: Barbara Beeton Ordinary members: $60. Karl Berry Students: $40. 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When a type design is good, it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all. Frederic W. Goudy Type Design: A homily (1961) COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP EDITOR BARBARA BEETON VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1 • MARCH 1997 THREE RIVERS • CALIFORNIA • U.S.A. TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board During 1997, the communications of the TEXUsers Barbara Beeton, Editor Group will be published in four issues. One issue, Mimi Burbank, Production Manager still to be determined, will contain the Proceedings Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros of the 1997 TUG Annual Meeting. Alan Hoenig, Associate Editor, Fonts TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of mem- Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, Topics in the bership to all members. Humanities Submissions to TUGboat are reviewed by vol- Production Team: unteers and checked by the Editor before publica- Barbara Beeton, Mimi Burbank (Manager), Robin tion. However, the authors are still assumed to be Fairbairns, Michel Goossens, Sebastian Rahtz, the experts. Questions regarding content or accu- Christina Thiele racy should therefore be directed to the authors, 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. 18, No. 2. The TUG publishes the series TEXniques, in which have deadline for technical items has passed; reports appeared reference materials and user manuals for and similar items are due by May 16. Mailing macro packages and TEX-related software, as well is scheduled for June. Deadlines for other future as the Proceedings of the 1987 and 1988 Annual issues are listed in the Calendar, page 56. Meetings. Other publications on TEXnical subjects Manuscripts should be submitted to a member also appear from time to time. of the TUGboat Editorial Board. Articles of general TUG is interested in considering additional interest, those not covered by any of the editorial manuscripts for publication. These might include departments listed, and all items submitted on manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or magnetic media or as camera-ready copy should works on any other topic that might be useful to be addressed to the Editor, Barbara Beeton (see the TEX community in general. Provision can be address on p. 3). made for including macro packages or software in Contributions in electronic form are encour- computer-readable form. 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TUGb oat Volume No Notice regarding T X Users Group election E for a temp orary p erio d eective immediately to expire This notice was sentby email on April when their regular term b egins to all TUG members for whom TUG has email It is prop osed that individuals wishing to present addresses If anyone reading this notice here themselves as candidates for President do so in the did not receive a copyby email please let TUG following manner with the election b e held during the knowby sending a message to tugmailtugorg annual TUG business meeting which will take place including your correct preferred email address during the TUG annual meeting in San Francisco July We intend to use email more frequently in the August future