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Such articles can be T@$ is a trademark of the American Mathematical identified by the presence of a copyright notice thereon. Society. Printed in U.S.A. 1993 Annual Meeting Proceedings 'l&X Users Group Fourteenth Annual Meeting Aston University, Birmingham, England, July 26-30, 1993 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USERS GROUP TUGBOATEDITOR BARBARABEETON PROCEEDINGSEDITORS MIMI BURBANK SEBASTIANRAHTZ VOLUME14, NUMBER3 OCTOBER1993 PROVIDENCE. RHODEISLAND . U.S.A. Editorial and Production notes The camera-ready copy was printed on a Linotron phototypesetter. Ths volume includes the majority of papers presen- The reviewing and editing process started later ted at TUG'93; the exceptions are Richard Kinch's in the year than anticipated, but all the authors True T@: A New Implementation for Windows, were very prompt in getting their papers ready Richard Southall's Document Design and Laurent for both the preprints and these final Proceed- Siebenmann's The Spacing Around Math, which ings. The burden of editorial work was under- were not offered for publication. One paper, Nel- taken primarily by Mimi Burbank (with greatly ap- son Beebe's Bibliography Prettyprinting and Syntax preciated help from Bill Burgess), whle Sebastian Checking, was too long for the Proceedings and will Rahtz handled the implementation and produc- be published in full in the next issue of TUGboat. tion. An excellent band of anonymous reviewers The following workshops and panel sessions provided an enormous amount of feedback without were held (organiser's name in brackets): .€%T@3 which this volume would have been the poorer. (Frank Mittelbach), Virtual Fonts (Michael Doob), Bib- Sebastian Rahtz and Mimi Burbank liographic Formatting Tools (David Rhead), Multi- lingual T@ (Yannis Haralambous), Archives, Typo- graphic Issues, and Math Font Encodings. Alan Jef- frey's report on the latter is included in these Pro- ceedings. Ths volume breaks with TUGboat tradition by making almost no use of Donald Knuth's Computer Modern font family. All the papers are set in Lucida Obituary - Yuri Melnichuk Bright, with Lucida Sans, Lucida Typewriter and Lu- Yuri Melnichuk, a reader in computing mathematics cida New Math used where appropriate, at just below at Lviv Polytechnical Institute, in Ukraine, and one of 9pt. The only exceptions are figures in the papers the participants at the Aston TUG'93 conference and by Daniel Taupin where the macro packages were courses, died suddenly of a heart attack while at the strongly wedded to CMR-like font names. We hope University of York on Friday, August 13th. that TUGboat readers will enjoy thls changed look, Yuri was a fairly frequent visitor to York, where or at least use it as a conversation piece. It is salut- he was working on a joint book on number theory ary to relate that many of the papers were carefully with Maurice Dodson. During his time at York he had tuned by their authors to fit the page size and line been introduced to TEX, and with the help of other breaks if they were set in Computer Modern - Lu- colleagues in the Mathematics department there had cida caused many headaches for the editors for ths developed this interest. Realising its potential value reason! Readers may also notice that two different to the academic community in the Ukraine he had sets of hyphenation patterns were used - all papers contacted others, with a view to establishing good by non-American authors were set using UK English links between institutions and individuals. hyphenation. His concerns were not just mathematical: he All papers were received, edited and reviewed was also active in ensuring that the British Council via electronic mail. Four papers - Haralambous, and the IEE were in contact with relevant bodies in Taupin (twice) and Plaice - needed their own fonts the Ukraine. Just before he died he was searchng the to be built using METFIFONT. Just one figure had net for a PC version of Ada to take back for computer to be pasted in, for obvious reasons - the example scientists in his institution. output in Kawaguti's paper. The nine plain TEX and Last year, he had been instrumental in begin- twenty ETEX files were processed on a Sun SPARC- ning a TEX users group in Lviv and was beginning to station (the same machine at Aston which hosts the coordinate its activities over the whole country. UK TEX Archve, courtesy of Peter Abbott), and Post- He was a dynamic personality, with infectious Script output prepared with Tom Rokicla's dtips. vision and enthusiastic plans. An excellent and hos- The LATEX files used the New Font Selection Scheme, pitable host, his good humour was matched with version 2, throughout, and the plain TEX files used a determination. His ability to bring people together specially-prepared format file with the Lucida fonts was a tribute to his wsion of cooperation and his specified. The 'Cork' (DC) encoding was used for all own engaging nature. His loss is a blow to the text fonts. The output was printed using PK fonts, many friends he had made, to his colleagues in generated by ps2pk from Postscript Type1 sources. the Ukraine, and to the TEX community worldwide. Malcolm Clark TUGboat, Volume 14 (1993),No. 3 -Proceedings of the 1993 Annual Meeting Opening words and design and colour rather than the content. The play itself was simply staggering in its length (3 3/4 These proceedings will surprise you. They're not hours) and its impact, especially as I was sitting only done in Computer Modern! Go look! We don't often seven rows from the stage. have the opportunity to see so much "sample" ma- I met many of the editors of other newsletters terial done in Lucida! Anyone who's done this sort of and publications (Karel Horhk, Wiodek Bzyl, Tomasz work on a large collection of papers can appreciate Plata-Przechlewski). I met a fellow from Slovenia the difficulties ths can mean. Sebastian Rahtz and (Borut inidar); in my ignorance, I asked how he could Mimi Burbank, the co-editors, deserve a solid round do any computer work with the war around. His of applause for their work. reply: "We haven't had war for two years now." Real- The conference where it all took place? Very ity is a very hard wall indeed sometimes. Attendees interesting, very nice, very surprising (aren't they all, were from everywhere: from Norway to Israel, from each in their own way?).