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Volunteers are invited to submit Mathematical Society. their names and interests for consideration; write to Textures is a trademark of Blue Sky Research. TUGboat @Math.AMS . org or to the Editor, Barbara UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX Systems Beeton (see address on p. 95). Laboratories, Inc. TUGboat, Volume 14 (1993), No. 2 their use.2 The results? Quite spectacular, or so it General Delivery seems to me. This is the first time I've used a font which isn't letters and numbers and symbols, but rather, each "character" is a design element which Opening words are then combined, with fairly seamless results, into complex patterns (rather like taking some of those Christina Thiele ASCII symbols on a DOS machine, the ones which It's summer. Beginning of July. What could I write define corners and lines and shaded boxes and all). about for this issue of TUGboat? You've been anx- Manipulating the font elements hasn't been all that iously awaiting your copy of 14 #I, and it has fi- easy, mainly because I may be missing some basic nally arrived. Shortly after that, TTN 2,3 turned TJ$ concepts (I do have some interesting gaps . up-and now this issue of TUGboat. Information well, ok, chasms . in my knowledge of the beast). glut! But I am getting the results I wanted, and hoped for. Should I suggest you take your copies with you So tip of the hat to his efforts, and for generously on vacation? No . that would be pushing our placing his fonts onto the archives. mission too far! True, we want to spread informa- tion about TEX, but . at the beach? We're like everyone else- we want a vacation away from our Many of us are preparing for the Annual Meeting. favourite program too! So what can I tell you today? writing papers, re-writing papers (!), working on Well, I've begun having some fun again with overhead slides, thinking of all the questions we have TEX. "Well," you say, "don't you work with it all for this or that person; maybe some vacation time the time? Isn't that enough?!" No .