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1 The Communications of the Users Group I 'l&X Users Group Board of Directors Memberships and Subscriptions Donald Knuth, Grand Wizard of Z&X-arcana TUGboat (ISSN 0896-3207) is published four times Nelson Beebe, President* a year plus one supplement by the l$$ Users Richard Furuta, Vice President* Group, 653 North Main Street, P. 0. Box 9506, Cal Jackson, Secretary* Providence, RI 02940, U.S.A. David Ness, Z+easurer* Malcolm Clark, European Coordinator, 1991 dues for individual members are as follows: Vice-President for the U.K. rn Ordinary members: $45 Bernard Gaulle, Vice-president for GUTenberg Students: $35 T@ Roswitha Graham, Vice-President for Membership in the Users Group is for the the Nordic countries calendar year, and includes all issues of TUGboat Kees van der Laan, Vice-president for NTG for the year in which membership begins or is Joachim Lammarsch, IBM VM/CMS ' renewed. A membership form is provided on page Site Coordinator, Vice-President for 183. DANTE Subscription rates: United States $45 a year; Barbara Beeton, TUGboat Editor all other countries, $45. Lance Carnes, Small Systems Site Coordinator Second-class postage paid at Providence, RI, Bart Childs, DG MV Site Coordinator and additional mailing offices. Postmaster: Send John Crawford, Prime 50 Series Site Coordinator address changes to the TJ$ Users Group, P. 0. Box Allen Dyer 9506, Providence, RI 02940, U.S. A. David Fuchs Regina Girouard Institutional Membership Dean Guenther Institutional Membership is a means of showing Hope Hamilton continuing interest in and support for both T)jX Doug Henderson, METRFONT Coordinator and the TEX Users Group. Alan Hoenig* The privileges of institutional membership in- Patrick Ion clude: David Kellerman, VM/VMS Site Coordinator rn designating individuals to receive TUGboat David Kratzer subscriptions and be accorded the status of Pierre MacKay, UNIX Site Coordinator individual TUG members, the number of Craig Platt, IBM MVS Site Coordinator such designees depending on the category of Christina Thiele membership chosen; Hermann Zapf, Wizard of Fonts rn reduced rates for the purchase of additional 'member of finance committee subscriptions; See the 1990 TUG Membership List for addresses. rn reduced rates for TUG meetings/courses for all staff members, and for rental/purchase of videotapes. Addresses Telephone rn acknowledgement in every issue of TUGboat General correspondence: 401-751-7760 published during the membership year. l$$ Users Group For further information, contact the TUG office. P. 0. Box 9506 Fax Providence, RI 02940 401-751-1071 Payments: T&X Users Group Electronic Mail T)jX is a trademark of the American Mathematical P. 0. Box 594 (Internet) Society. Providence, RI 02901 General correspondence: TUGQMath.AMS.com Parcel post, TUGboat @ Copyright 1991, l$$ Users Group delivery services: Submissions to TUGboat: QX Users Group TUGboatQMath .AMS .com 653 North Main Street Providence, RI 02904 T~ijX90Conference Proceedings University College Cork, Ireland, September 10-13, 1990 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USERS GROUP TUGBOATEDITOR BARBARABEETON PROCEEDINGSEDITOR MARY GUENTHER VOLUME12, NUMBER1 MARCH1991 PROVIDENCE RHODEISLAND U.S.A. 2 TUGboat, Volume 12 (1991), No. 1 Production Notes Other Conference Proceedings The Tf$ source code for most articles in this issue Europe of TUGboat were transmitted via network or floppy Proceedings of the First European Conference on diskette to the editors, who then generated dvi files Q$ffor Scientific Documentation. Dario with 3.0 on their IBM 3090 for printing on Lucarella, ed. Reading, Mass.: Addisoc- an IBM 3827 or an HP LaserJet. These edited Wesley, 1985. [16-17 May 1985, Como, Italy.] articles were subsequently transmitted to the TUG Proceedings of the Second European Conference on office via tape and run on an IBM PC-compatible lj$i for Scientific Documentation. Jacques 386 with PCWand pW. The resulting dvi Dksarmhnien, ed. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, files were shipped to the American Mathematical 1986. [19-21 June 1986, Strasbourg, France.] Society via modem, and camera copy was produced 23388 Conference Proceedings. Malcolm Clark, on the Society's APS p-5. ed. Chichester, England: Ellis Horwood, 1990. A few items and articles were produced locally [18-20 July 1988, Exeter University, Exeter. by authors and then mailed to the editors for England.] incorporation in these Proceedings. Camera-ready copy for the entire articles was supplied by Les car;, North America Olivier Nicole, and Friedhelm Sowa. Several articles required special fonts from Conference Proceedings: T&X Users Group Eighth METAFONT. Fonts for the articles by Alan Hoenig, Annual Meeting. Dean Guenther, ed. Yannis Haralambous, and Dean Guenther and mniques No. 5. Providence, Rhode Island: Janene Winter were generated using pcMF ex- W Users Group, 1988. [24-26 August 1987, cept for Haralambous' initials. These were cre- University of Washington, Seattle, ated using MacMETAFONT on a Macintosh at the Washington.] American Mathematical Society. Special fonts for Conference Proceedings: l&Y Users Group Ninth Adrian Clark's and MicheAl 0 Searc6id's articles Annual Meeting. Christina Thiele, ed. were produced locally and these authors supplied mniques No. 7. Providence, Rhode Island: camera-ready copy which was cut in. rn Users Group, 1988. [22-24 August 1988, Roughly one-third of the articles were written McGill University, Montrkal, Canada.] using IPm macros; the remainder used the plain- Conference Proceedings: l&Y Users Group Tenth based tugproc . sty. Annual Meeting. Christina Thiele, ed. TUGboat 10, no. 4. Providence, Rhode Island: 7&X Users Group, 1989. [20-23 Trademarks August 1989, Stanford University, Stanford, Many trademarked names appear in the pages of California.] TUGboat. If there is any question about whether Conference Proceedings: T&$i Users Group a name is or is not a trademark, prudence dictates Eleventh Annual Meeting. Lincoln Durst, ed. that it should be treated as if it is. The following TUGboat 11, no. 3. Providence, Rhode list of trademarks which appear in this issue may Island: W Users Group, 1990. [18-20 June not be complete. 1990, Texas A&M University, College Station, APS p5 is a trademark of Autologic, Inc. Texas .] DOS and MS/DOS are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation LaserJet, PCL, and DeskJet are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard, Inc. METAFONT is a trademark of Addison-Wesley Inc. PC Tf$ is a registered trademark of Personal Tf$, Inc. Postscript is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. W and AMS-W are trademarks of the American Mathematical Society. UNIXis a trademark of AT&T Bell Laboratories. TUGboat, Volume 12 (1991), No. 1 3 Introduction Barbara Beeton w90, meeting in Cork from September 10-13, 1990, was the fifth Eurow con- ference, and the first with which the rn Users Group was associated as a sponsor. As were the previous meetings in Europe, m90can be counted a success in both the diversity and quality of the papers presented. The conference facilities were located at University College, Cork (Colhiste na hOllscoile, Corcaigh, to the locals). Opened in 1849 as the "Queen's University", UCC was incorporated as a constituent college of the National University of Ireland in 1908. Long before that. however, Cork was known as a center of learning, and monks gathered there from the 12~~century onward (and from Europe and the New World. as a rather confused tour guide informed us). Today, UCC has over 6,500 full-time students and more than 1,000 staff. Among the more famous faculty members was George Boole, without whom the craft of computing would probably be quite different. A current UCC staff member of some renown in the T)$ community is Peter Flynn, the local member of the m90Program Committee; to him we owe ap- preciation for the very fine local arrangements. Our praise for putting together an excellent program go to him and to the other committee members-Dean Guen- ther (co-coordinator with Peter Flynn), Peter Abbott , Johannes Braams, Malcolm Clark, Bernard Gaulle, Roswitha Graham, and Joachim Lammarsch. And for ad- ditional organizational efforts, we thank Kees van der Laan and Ray Goucher. The official program opened Monday morning with a lively introduction by Michael Smith, Ireland's Minister for Science & Technology. Not only had he traveled quite a distance to give this talk, but he had also done his homework, and was able to describe how rn fits in well with the nation's plans for building a strong technological base to attract international commerce. The President of UCC followed with some remarks, including an appreciation for a recent budget increase and other support from the Ministry, and a short history of UCC and George Boole. After introductions of the attending officers of TUG and the European QX user associations, the technical program began with a session on databases and hypertext. This appears to be a very fruitful area for research, and one with great promise for !QX applications in specific areas. (Every time I see a demonstration of a multidocument system with hypertext links between them, I want one for organizing myself.) The first afternoon was filled out with presentations on efforts in the Netherlands and the U.K. to build facilities adapted to their local needs. Working Group 13 of NTG (the Nederlandstalige TEX Gebruikersgroep) has been working on building I4wstyles that are more acceptable than the originals are in Europe. Adrian Clark described a prototype system for documenting the Aston archive's holdings for users. These needs may be local, but the results will be much more widely useful. On Tuesday, the first topic addressed was the =sthetics and practicalities of typographics. This included a discussion by Victor Eijkhout of why a document style designer should not work directly in (IP)m, but should be provided with separate tools that express the variables of formatting in a more natural way. The next session presented suggestions for including graphics in m,or, in the case of Tim Murphy, turning the process inside out and including QX in graphics.