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TUGBOAT Volume 24, Number 2 / 2003 General Delivery 159 From the president / Karl Berry 160 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton 162 Daniel Taupin, 1936–2003 / John Plaice 163 What is TEX? / Douglas Waud Typography 165 Maths = Typography? / Richard Lawrence 169 On musical typesetting: Sonata for TEX and METAFONT, Op. 2 / Federico Garcia Font Forum 183 There is no end: Omega and Zapfino / William Adams 200 The METAFONT approach: Implicit, relative, and analytical font design / Timothy Hall Resources 205 CTAN plans / Robin Fairbairns, Jim Hefferon, Rainer Sch¨opf, Joachim Schrod, Graham Williams, Reinhard Zierke LATEX 208 Some notes on templates / Lars Hellstr¨om 211 Writing a big book — A first experience with LATEX / David Walden 216 Designing packages for Λ: An overview / Apostolos Syropoulos 221 LATEX news, issues 14–16, 2001–2003 / LATEX Project Team 224 ednotes — critical edition typesetting with LATEX / Uwe L¨uck Software & Tools 236 Hyphenation patterns for minority languages / Kevin Scannell 240 (LA)TEX, genealogy, and the LifeLines software / Andrew Caird 245 Generating LATEX documents through Matlab / S. E. Talole, S. B. Phadke 249 mlBibTEX’s Version 1.3 / Jean-Michel Hufflen Hints & Tricks 262 Glisterings / Peter Wilson 265 The treasure chest / Mark LaPlante Book Reviews 275 The LATEX Companion, Second Edition / Claudio Beccari 278 Guide to LATEX, 4th Edition / Douglas Waud and Mimi Burbank Abstracts 282 Les Cahiers GUTenberg: Contents of Issue 42 (July 2003) 283 MAPS: Contents of issues 27–28 (2002) 286 TEXemplares: Contents of issues 4–6 (2003–04) Reports 288 Report on the Pune workshop on LATEX and free mathematical software / S. A. Katre, Manjusha Joshi 291 TUG at Bay / Nelson Beebe, Wendy McKay, Ross Moore News & 294 Calendar Announcements 295 TUG 2005 announcement c3 EuroTEX 2005 announcement Late-Breaking 296 Production notes / Mimi Burbank News 296 Future issues TUG Business 296 Financial statements for 2003 / Robin Laakso 298 TUG 2005 election 293 Institutional members Advertisements 299 TEX consulting and production services 299 The LATEX Companion, 2nd edition, by Frank Mittelbach et al. 300 Easy Table, Khanh Ha TEX Users Group Board of Directors TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published by the Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of TEX-arcana † ∗ TEX Users Group. Karl Berry, President Kaja Christiansen∗, Vice President Memberships and Subscriptions Sam Rhoads∗, Treasurer 2004 dues for individual members are as follows: Susan DeMeritt∗, Secretary Ordinary members: $75. Barbara Beeton Students/Seniors: $45. 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[printing date: November 2004] 158 TUGboat, Volume 24 (2003), No. 2 TUGboat TUGboat Editorial Board This issue (Vol. 24, No. 2) is the only regular issue Barbara Beeton, Editor-in-Chief of the 2003 volume year. Vol. 24, No. 1 was the Robin Laakso, Managing Editor TUG 2003 conference proceedings, and No. 3 will be Mimi Burbank, Production Manager the EuroTEX 2003 proceedings. Victor Eijkhout, Associate Editor, Macros We are unfortunately not able to set a definitive Alan Hoenig, Associate Editor, Fonts schedule for the appearance of the next few issues. Christina Thiele, Associate Editor, TUGboat is distributed as a benefit of mem- Topics in the Humanities bership to all members. Production Team Submissions to TUGboat are reviewed by vol- William Adams, Barbara Beeton, Karl Berry, unteers and checked by the Editor before publica- Mimi Burbank (Manager), Robin Fairbairns, tion. However, the authors are still assumed to be Baden Hughes, Steve Peter, Michael Sofka, and the experts. Questions regarding content or accu- Christina Thiele racy should therefore be directed to the authors, with an information copy to the Editor. Other TUG Publications Submitting Items for Publication TUG is interested in considering additional man- Owing to the lateness of the present issue, and uscripts for publication. These might include the scarcity of material submitted for future issues, manuals, instructional materials, documentation, or suggestions and proposals will be gratefully accepted works on any other topic that might be useful to and processed as received. the TEX community in general. Provision can be Manuscripts should be submitted to a member made for including macro packages or software in of the TUGboat Editorial Board. 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Trademarks This is also the preferred address for submitting contributions via electronic mail. Many trademarked names appear in the pages of TUGboat. If there is any question about whether Reviewers a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates that it should be treated as if it is. The following Additional reviewers are needed, to assist in check- list of trademarks which appear in this issue may ing new articles for completeness, accuracy, and not be complete. presentation. Volunteers are invited to submit METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. their names and interests for consideration; write to PostScript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. [email protected]. TEX and AMS-TEX are trademarks of the American Mathematical Society. Unix is a registered trademark of X/Open Co. Ltd. TUGboat, Volume 24 (2003), No. 2 159 Board resignation and appointments General Delivery In January 2004, Stephanie Hogue resigned from the board, owing simply to lack of time. We thank her enormously for her efforts on behalf of T X and TUG From the President E over the years. Karl Berry In my capacity as president, I have appointed several hard-working TEX folks to the board, to TUG I’m honored to serve as the new president fill some of the vacant positions: Jim Hefferon (as of the T X Users Group 2003 annual meet- E (long-time maintainer of TUG’s CTAN node), Ger- ing), following in the footsteps of many past and ree Pecht (long-time TEX enthusiast at Prince- present TEX stalwarts (Pierre MacKay, Nelson ton), Steve Peter (linguist, translator, and very ac- Beebe, and Christina Thiele come immediately to tive TEXxie), and Steve Grathwohl (in charge of mind; see http://tug.org/tugpres.html for a TEXnical operations at Duke University Press). rogues’ gallery). I’d like to thank them all for agreeing to serve. 2003 TUG organizational matters More information about them and the other board members can be found via the web page http:// • TUG once again has an executive director! The tug.org/board.html.