\documentclass{baskrep} \usepackage{foot} \usepackage{simpsons} \BASKvol{4} \BASKno{4} \begin{document} \vspace*{-1cm} \begin{multicols}{2}[\makeBSKtitle] \begin{raggedright} \tableofcontents \end{raggedright} \title{Editorial} \begin{article} \def\fortex{\leavevmode\lower.5ex\hbox{4}\kern-.1667em\TeX} \section{\BV\ articles needed} \BV\ has been getting good articles this year, and I am very grateful to all the contributors. But I need more! Please delight fellow \TeX\ users with your words of wisdom. \emph{Please note the following schedule of copy deadlines}: \def\Thead#1{\makebox[1.7cm][c]{\rotatebox{30}{ \parbox{2.4cm}{\raggedright #1}}}} \begin{quote} \begin{tabular}{llll} \em \rotatebox{30}{Issue}& \em \Thead{Submit material for publication}& \em \Thead{Submit last-minute notices}& \em \Thead{Anticipated posting date}\\ 4.5&Oct 17&Oct 24&Nov 10\\ 4.6&Dec 19&Dec 22&Jan 9\\ \end{tabular} \end{quote} Please also note the changed email and paper mail addresses for the editor in the banner heading above. Each issue of \BV\ will have a special theme, although articles on any \TeX-related subject are always welcome. Contributions on the themes for the remainder of 1994 are eagerly solicited: \BV\ 4.5 will try and go beyond \TeX, to see what is on the horizon, and \BV\ 4.6 will be about font-encoding if past history is anything to go by \ldots \subsection{\TeX\ goes CD-ROM} In the last \BV, the Dutch-produced \fortex\ CD was advertised, and shortly afterwards a box of them arrived in the UK. They were promptly snapped up by discerning members, and back-orders to Holland from around the world soon accounted for all the copies which were made. If you do manage to find one, it's a real treasure trove (you can see one of my `finds' later) of fonts, macros, programs, articles, all piled together moderately higgledy-piggledy. NTG and the \fortex\ team are to be enthusiastically thanked for this product. I couldn't get too excited about \fortex\ itself (it's a DOSsy shell for \TeX), but I have used the disk over and over again to find odd files. Are any \BV\ readers who bought the CD willing to write a full review? If that wasn't enough, those of us who attended TUG94 were given another CD, `\TeX cetera', courtesy of Prime Time Freeware. This is an almost-complete copy of the CTAN archives as of mid June (they left out a few monolithic items like the Archimedes \TeX\ setup to make it fit a single disk), collected and compressed into (usually) meaningful bundles. They couldn't just dump the whole archive since a) its too big, and b) the ISO 9660 file system on the CD couldn't cope with the names and the level of subdirectories. This CD is a Really Useful Thing! I recommend all or any \TeX\ persons reading this to buy a copy now, and encourage Prime Time Freeware to issue regular editions. Details of suppliers are given in the regular section at the back of \BV. \subsection{The archive is dead, long live the archive\ldots} Later in this issue, Martyn Johnson and Robin Fairbairns explain why and how the UK's \TeX\ Archive has moved to Cambridge. I join them in a tremendous vote of thanks to Peter Abbott for the way he stood behind the archive for years at Aston; without him we would have none of today's fancy CTANs. At the same time, I would like to record again the hallowed names of those pioneer archivists who worked so hard on the old archive: Adrian Clark, Malcolm Clark, Brian Hamilton Kelly, Niel Kempson, David Osborne, Sebastian Rahtz, Chris Rowley and Phil Taylor. David's (ongoing) work on the \texttt{uktex} and \texttt{texhax} bulletins also deserves the fullest recognition here. \subsection{Colophon} This issue of the journal was created entirely with the new standard \LaTeX\ and printed on a Hewlett Packard LaserJet~4. \BV\ is set in ITC New Baskerville Roman and Gill Sans, with Computer Modern Typewriter for literal text. Production and distribution was undertaken in Cambridge by Robin Fairbairns and Jonathan Fine. \end{article} \end{multicols} \input{siep} \Dings \MakeShortVerb{|} \input{bailey2} \DeleteShortVerb{|} \MakeShortVerb{+} \input{fine} \input{taylor} \input{chen} \DeleteShortVerb{+} \input{goossens} \input{ntuf} \input{clark} \input{bailey} \MakeShortVerb{|} \input{ctanuk} \DeleteShortVerb{|} \Dings \input{consult} \end{document}