TUGBOAT Volume 17, Number 2 / June 1996 1996 Annual Meeting Proceedings Opening Address 91 Michel Goossens / Opening Words by the President Fonts 92 Karel P´ıˇska / Cyrillic alphabets 99 J¨org Knappen / The dc fonts 1.3: Move towards stability and completeness 102 Fukui Rei / TIPA: A system for processing phonetic symbols in LATEX 115 A.S. Berdnikov / Computer Modern Typefaces as Multiple Master Fonts 120 A.S. Berdnikov / VFComb 1.3 — the program which simplifies virtual font management Encoding and 126 Yannis Haralambous / ΩTimes and ΩHelvetica fonts under development: Multilingual Step One Support 147 Richard J. Kinch / Extending TEXforUnicode 161 L. N. Znamenskaya and S. V. Znamenskii / Russian encoding plurality problem and a new Cyrillic font set 166 Peter A. Ovchenkov / Cyrillic TEX files: interplatform portability 172 Michael M. Vinogradov / A user-friendly multi-function TEX interface based on Multi-Edit 174 Olga G. Lapko / Full Cyrillic: How many languages? TEXSystems 181 John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous / The latest developments in Ω 184 Dag Langmyhr / StarTEX—a TEX for beginners 191 Gabriel Valiente Feruglio / Do journals honor LATEX submissions? 200 Sergei V. Znamenskii and Denis E. Leinartas / A new approach to the TEX-related programs: A user-friendly interface 204 Ivan G. Vsesvetsky / The strait gate to TEX 206 Laurent Siebenmann / DVI-based electronic publication 215 Kees van der Laan / BLUe’s format — the off-off alternative Graphics 222 Kees van der Laan / Turtle graphics and TEX—achildcandoit 229 A.S. Berdnikov, O.A. Grineva and S.B. 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Printed in U.S.A. 1996 Annual Meeting Proceedings TEX Users Group Seventeenth Annual Meeting Dubna, Russia, July 28–August 2, 1996 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE TEX USERS GROUP TUGBOAT EDITOR BARBARA BEETON PROCEEDINGS EDITORS MIMI BURBANK CHRISTINA THIELE VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 • JUNE 1996 SAN FRANCISCO • CALIFORNIA • U.S.A. Production Notes What’s different this year? version 1.3) fonts, using Malyshev’s BaKoMaPost- Script Type1 versions.2 The Ω article by Haralam- My goodness—much! This is the second annual bous necessitated the creation of proper .tfm files TUG meeting to be held outside North America, and from .afm files provided by the author. The arti- the first meeting that takes place in a country with cle by O. Lapko used special Cyrillic fonts, a result a non-Latin alphabet. of the ongoing Russian Cyrillic font project. The This is also the first (and probably the last) wncyr fonts developed at the University of Washing- year to attempt to present the Proceedings issue of ton and distributed by the American Mathematical TUGboat before the actual meeting. We have had Society were also widely used in this issue. varying success in this regard, and will most likely Owing to the wide variation in Cyrillic fonts return to our former schedule in 1997, if only be- (the two mentioned above are far from being the cause a pre-conference publication schedule does not only ones in existence) and methods for using them, allow authors and editors sufficient time to properly many of the Cyrillic examples were included in the fine-tune the final version of a text. As a result of the form of PostScript graphics prepared by the authors, delay in receiving articles from some authors, there so that additional fonts would not have to be in- are articles in this issue which have not been re- stalled and incorporated into the TUGboat styles viewed. Russian typographic styles differ from those for just one use. of TUGboat, and these differences may be noted in a variety of articles in this issue. Output Many of our speakers present material that is actually “work-in-progress” and is in some cases de- The editor will have to confess to many problems pendent upon discussions and input from others in during the editing and production of this issue and a particular area of expertise who attend the annual any remaining errors are mine (MB). Without help meetings. Therefore, some of the material to be pre- from my co-editor, Christina Thiele, and all of the sented at the conference in Dubna will be appearing production team members, final output would have in future issues of TUGboat. Look in the next issue been impossible. Final output was prepared at SCRI Web2C for a more detailed report of the TUG’96 Conference on an IBM RS6000 running AIX,usingthe in Dubna and list of participants. implementation of TEX. Output was printed on a Of the total number of articles submitted, four- QMS 680 print system at 600 dpi. teen were by Russian authors, thirrteen were by au- thors whose primary language was not English, and two articles were submitted by North American au- thors—surely a tribute to the international flavor of TUG.1 Macros During the three-month process of editing these pro- ceedings, I’ve had the opportunity to use at least ⋄ Mimi Burbank three different versions of LATEX2ε macros. Look in Supercomputer Computations the next issue for an article by Robin Fairbairns on Research Institute the current state of the TUGboat style files. Florida State University Only five articles were submitted as plain TEX Tallahassee, FL 32306–4502 [email protected] source; the others were submitted as LATEX2ε. Fonts ⋄ Christina Thiele A large area of focus at the TUG’96 meeting will 15 Wiltshire Circle be on “languages”, “encoding” and “fonts”. The is- Nepean, Ontario sue is set primarily in Computer Modern (or DC, K2J 4K9, Canada [email protected] 1 What an experience for someone whose first language is 2 J¨orge Knappen’s article on page 99 required the upgrade ’merkan and who speaks English as a ‘second language’. from 1.2 to 1.3 for this issue. 90 TUGboat, Volume 17 (1996), No. 2 — Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting Opening Words by the President Michel Goossens CERN, Geneva, Switzerland [email protected] A lot has happened in those twelve months since the second time that TUG’s Annual Meeting has taken last TUG Conference (the 16th) in St. Petersburg place outside of North America (the first time was (Florida). We now know that the revolution in in 1993, in Aston, Birmingham, United Kingdom). the area of electronic documents is here to stay. Moreover, this time we are moving beyond the Eng- It becomes more and more commonplace to find lish-speaking world altogether, as we are guests in individuals connecting from home computers to the the heart of Russia, the largest country in the world, Internet, and even in Europe “going global” starts spanning eleven time zones, and where the majority to become affordable, with most PTT’s now offering of the 150 million inhabitants speak Russian, which ISDN lines at prices comparable to normal telephone is written using the non-Latin Cyrillic alphabet.