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\title{Editorial}
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\section{\BV\ articles needed}
\BV\ really needs material from its readers! Please send your
interesting articles to the editor, and delight fellow \TeX\ users.
\emph{Please note the following schedule of copy deadlines}:

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\em \Thead{Submit material for publication}&
\em \Thead{Submit last-minute notices}&
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4.4&Aug 15&Aug 22&Sep 8\\
4.5&Oct 17&Oct 24&Nov 10\\
4.6&Dec 19&Dec 22&Jan 9\\
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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:
\begin{Pilist}{pzd}{43}
\item \BV\ 4.4 will be a back to basics special issue on mathematical
 and tabular typesetting;
\item \BV\ 4.5 will try and go beyond \TeX, to see what is on the
  horizon.
\item \BV\ 4.6 will be about font-encoding if past history is anything
  to go by \ldots
\end{Pilist}

\section{A pox on logos}
Does anyone else share my hatred of \TeX-related logos? When Knuth did
it with \TeX, it was funny; when Lamport invented \LaTeX, it was
mildly amusing; since then, downhill all the way. These ghastly creatures
often don't translate well from CM, they cause problems with indexes,
running heads and so on, we can never remember the name of the macros, and
they hold \TeX\ up to ridicule by outsiders. So \TeX\ can do kerning ---
far out. If I had my way, I'd ban them all except \TeX\ itself, and
that goes for \Metafont\ too\ldots.

\section{CD-ROM \protect\fortex: a \TeX\ workbench for DOS PCs}

At the end of 1993 the NTG (the Dutch language oriented \TeX\ user
group) released the package \fortex. It consists of a set of 31
diskettes, on which the most important \TeX\ and \LaTeX\ related
packages are assembled in well structured modules. \fortex\ is an
attempt to integrate all major \TeX\ related programs in a shell that
shields you from the tedious and frustrating job of setting
environment variables and program parameters.  In \fortex\ all
functions are available through simple menus, so profound knowledge of
all underlying programs is no longer required (the article in this
issue of \BV\ discusses this integration in the area of graphics).

To simplify the distribution of \fortex, a CD-ROM will be released in
at the beginning of June.  This CD-ROM should enable you to set up a
\fortex\ system with minimal effort.

The CD-ROM will contain  at least:
\begin{itemize}
\item  a fully installed \fortex\ 3.10 workbench, ready for use;
\item   the complete \fortex\ distribution set;
\item the MAPS (NTG's \emph{Minutes and APpendiceS}) articles on \TeX\ related
  topics, mostly in English, of recent years in \PS\ format;
\item   all TEX-NL and UK-TEX mailing list discussions of recent years;
\item   extra documentation, such as:
 \begin{itemize}
 \item `The \TeX book' and `The \MF book' in \TeX\ code,
 \item \TeX, \LaTeX\ and \Metafont\ introductions,
 \item very extensive bibliographies on miscellaneous \TeX\ related
   topics in \BibTeX\ format,
   \item indexes to \TeX\ macros and to files on CTAN (Comprehensive
     \TeX\ Archive Network);
\end{itemize}
\item   extra programs, such as:
\begin{itemize}
  \item  GNUplot,
  \item  GhostScript,
  \item  dvi utilities,
  \item  \PS\ utilities,
  \item  Polish and Cyrillic \TeX\ packages,
  \item  WEB: literate programming.
\end{itemize}
\end{itemize}

The CD-ROM will include the updated documentation on \fortex, an A5
sized booklet of approx.\ 120 pages, that explains how \fortex\ works
in depth. The price of the CD plus booklet is set at US \$35. It will
be available to \ukt\ members from mid-June from Peter Abbott;
enquiries and reservations may be made to Sebastian Rahtz
(\texttt{spqr@ftp.tex.ac.uk}).

\section{Macro name markup in \BV\ submissions}
We are sometimes asked what markup to use articles submitted to \BV.
Following plain \LaTeX\ `article' style covers almost all needs, but 
additional time can be saved by using the following macros in your
text, which define common names:

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\tt\bs MakeIndex \= \MakeIndex \kill
\tt\bs AmSTeX \> \AmSTeX\\
\tt\bs BV \> \BV\\
\tt\bs BibTeX \> \BibTeX\\
\tt\bs MakeIndex \= \MakeIndex \kill
%\tt\bs MF \> \MF\\
\tt\bs MakeIndex \> \MakeIndex\\
\tt\bs PS \> \PS\\
\tt\bs PiCTeX \> \PiCTeX\\
\tt\bs SLiTeX \> \SLiTeX\\
\tt\bs TUB \> \TUB\\
\tt\bs UKTUG \> \UKTUG\\
\tt\bs ukt \> \ukt\\
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\subsection{Colophon}

This issue of the journal was created entirely with the test
distribution of \LaTeXe\ 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. 
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