TUGBOAT Volume 23, Number 3/4 / 2002 243 Addresses General Delivery 245 From the Board of Directors / Karl Berry 245 Editorial comments / Barbara Beeton TEX 3.141592, METAFONT 2.71828; Glitch in TUGboat 22:4; Farewell, Michael Downes; Last cartoon by Roy Preston; A web site for Arabic typography; Recognition for the Plantin Museum; An alphabet game for children of all ages; Making TEX Work on CTAN; TEX for the Impatient 247 Hyphenation exception log 249 Donald Knuth: All questions answered (University of Oslo, 30 August 2002) Dreamboat 261 Floating point numbers and METAFONT, METAPOST, TEX, and PostScript Type 1 fonts / Claudio Beccari Typography 269 The Octavo package / Stefan A. Revets Philology 276 The teubner LATEX package: Typesetting classical Greek philology / Claudio Beccari 282 Typesetting in Bengali script using TEX / Palash B. 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