UKTeX Digest	Saturday, 25 Jan 1992    Volume 92 : Issue 03

Today's Topics:
 {Q&A}:
		   Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty
		 RE: Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty
		 RE: Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty
		  concatanating arguments onto text
		RE: concatanating arguments onto text
	      Re: MathTime: PostScript Times math fonts
			    Bibtex styles
			  Re: BibTeX styles
		 emTeX beta-test versions, switch /mp
 {Announcements}:
		     LaTeX -- the story continues
		       rotating style for LaTeX
			 LaTeX syntax checker
			   EP'92 Conference


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Date:    Fri, 17 Jan 92 15:35:48 +0000
From:    D.Eckersley@uk.ac.salford.sysc
Subject: Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty

There seems to be a missing closing brace near the end
of the version of Rainer's verbatim.doc currently in the archive.
Adding a } before the % on line 1484 cures the `incomplete def...' message
which otherwise arises when running verbtest.tex through LaTeX.  There
are no grumbles from docstrip when processing verbatim.doc -> verbatim.sty.
The clump of files I used had the following dates/versions
 
   readme.mz: \def\filedate{90/11/17}
   readme.mz4: \def\filedate{91/12/18}
   verbatim.doc: \def\fileversion{v1.4h}
   verbatim.doc: \def\filedate{91/12/18}
   verbatim.doc: \def\docdate{91/12/18}
   vrbinput.doc: \def\fileversion{v1.0b}
   vrbinput.doc: \def\filedate{91/06/30}
   vrbinput.doc: \def\docdate{91/08/05}
 
and were from:
 
   Directory DISK$TEX:[TEX-ARCHIVE.LATEX.STYLES.VERBATIM]
 
Dave Eckersley

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Date:    Fri, 17 Jan 92 20:30:40 +0000
From:    CA_ROWLEY@uk.ac.open.acs.vax
Subject: RE: Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty

Yes, I just discovered this too, and told Rainer.

The missing } is the less subtle problem: in fact, I think, the code
for \@sverb should be as follows.

%    \begin{macrocode}
\def\@sverb#1{%
  \catcode`#1\active
  \lccode`\~`#1%
  \lowercase{\let~\egroup}%
              }
%    \end{macrocode}


chris

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Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 92 12:25:30 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: RE: Rainer's Schoepf's verbatim.sty

Chris Rowley wrote in answer to a message by Dave Eckersley
<D.Eckersley@uk.ac.salford.sysc>:

   Yes, I just discovered this too, and told Rainer.

   The missing } is the less subtle problem: in fact, I think, the code
   for \@sverb should be as follows.

   %    \begin{macrocode}
   \def\@sverb#1{%
     \catcode`#1\active
     \lccode`\~`#1%
     \lowercase{\let~\egroup}%
		 }
   %    \end{macrocode}

True. I corrected this. The documentation does say \egroup, by the
way.
 <sigh>

Raienr Sch"opf

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Date:    Sat, 18 Jan 92 14:25:26 +0000
From:    Peter J. Knaggs. <cmr02@uk.ac.tees-poly.scm>
Subject: concatanating arguments onto text

Hi

I have a function that is going to require the user to select from a set of
pre-programmed defaults.  Now each default has its own command.

ie:	\func@a
	\func@b
	\func@c

What I want is a simple command that will allow to user to configure the
mode they want.  Ie:

	\mode{a}

To set the function mode (\funcmode) to the pre-defined mode (\func@a).  My
initial thought is to define \mode as:

	\def\mode#1{ \gdef\funcmode{\func@#1} }

But this puts a space between the \func@ and the value of the argument #1.
So in the previous example \mode evaluates to:

	\gdef\funcmode{\func@ a}

and not the required

	\gdef\funcmode{\func@a}

So, can anyone point out what I am doing wrong.

Peter J. Knaggs.	School of Computing and Maths, Teesside Polytechnic,
pjk @ scm.tp.ac.uk	Middlesbrough, England.		+44 (642) 342673

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Date:    Sun, 19 Jan 92 10:45:27 +0000
From:    CA_ROWLEY@uk.ac.open.acs.vax
Subject: RE: concatanating arguments onto text

> What I want is a simple command that will allow to user to configure the
> mode they want.  Ie:
> 
> 	\mode{a}
> 
> To set the function mode (\funcmode) to the pre-defined mode (\func@a).  My
> initial thought is to define \mode as:
> 
> 	\def\mode#1{ \gdef\funcmode{\func@#1} }
> 
> But this puts a space between the \func@ and the value of the argument #1.

This is what the
   \csname ... \endcsname
construction is for, you need:

	\def\mode#1{\gdef\funcmode{\csname func@#1\endcsname}}


NOTE also the lack of spaces in my version.

Chris Rowley (on behalf of The Archivists)

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Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 92 11:00:34 +0000
From:    Malcolm Clark <malcolmc@uk.ac.pcl.sun>
Subject: Re: MathTime: PostScript Times math fonts

$135 seems like peanuts to me, given that mike included
a macro package to support the fonts and proper tfms.
creating the tfms alone will have been worth a few
hours work. is there evidence that Adobe's Times Roman
is in the public domain? why would pd be automatically
better? is this a common perception? i would really
prefer to see it off a high resolution device though.
malcolm

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Date:    Wed, 22 Jan 92 16:38:00 +0000
From:    "Ian Ellery " <"CPCMH::S121"@uk.ac.east-anglia>
Subject: Bibtex styles

A user wants to use bibtex to format according to 'Royal Society'
recommendations.
This is that in text the ref should be (Knuth, 1984) or Knuth (1984), and
the references list should be alphabetic, with no label on each item,
and authors as Surname, Initials. Eg:
   Knuth, D.K. "The TeXBook", Addison Wesley, 1984
(The oorder of the rest of the elements could be wrong - I dont
think this is too vital)

I tried aaai-named.bst - which was almost there, but didnt reverse the
Author name and initials.

Our VAX BiBTeX is v98, user also wants to use said style on Oztex - I
presume that this will be a later version of BiBTeX - v99?

So can anyone tell me which .bst style I want from Aston - or failing that
a simple alteration I can make to aaai-named.bst to make it reverse the
authors name and initials.

Thanks for any help,
    Ian Ellery, 
    Computing Centre, UEA

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Date:    Fri, 24 Jan 92 11:56:18 +0000
From:    David_Rhead@uk.ac.nott.vme
Subject: Re: BibTeX styles

The fundamental problem seems to be that the Royal Society shows no signs
of getting to grips with electronic publishing.  At least, that's how it
seems to me, as a non-FRS, after having read their "Instructions for
Authors".  (If there are any FRSs reading, perhaps they would like to
comment in a future issue of UKTeX?) The instructions are all about:
"clearly typewritten"; "double spacing throughout"; squiggly line to
indicate bold; "underlined to indicate italics"; and in the list of
references the volume number must have a squiggly underline (to indicate
bold).  The style has subsections lettered (a) and sub-subsections numbered
(i).  Thus they are assuming that the author will "typewrite" and provide 
visual markup ready for re-keying by "the typesetter".
 
A quick answer to Ian's query is that:
*  A while back, I did some BibTeX style-files and a corresponding LaTeX
   style-option that deliver a bibliography style which is a compromise
   between the suggestions of various gurus such as the British Standards
   Institution, Judith Butcher's "Copyediting" and the "Chicago Manual of
   Style".  They are authordate1.bst, ...  , authordate4.bst and
   authordate1-4.sty and can be found in [tex-archive.bibtex.styles.contrib]
   and [tex-archive.latex.contrib] at Aston.  (See the AUTHORDATE.README files
   in those directories.) They have various deficiencies, but will give
   something closer to Royal Society style than things like aaai-named, I
   think.  They deliver things like 
     Knuth, D. E. {\it The TeXbook.} Addison Wesley, 1990.
   (although I've forgotten the precise punctuation).  \shortcite 
   gives "(1990)", while \cite gives "(Knuth, 1990)".  (The .bst files assume
   BibTeX 0.99, so East Anglia might have to update.)
*  There are some divergences between what my style-files deliver and
   what the Royal Society requires (in details like punctuation and
   position of page-numbers when conference proceedings are cited).  Ian
   or his end-user might be able to hack at my style-files to get a
   better approximation to Royal Society style.
 
But what then?  Are they going to try producing a LaTeX style-file that
delivers the other things the Royal Society says it wants: the underlining
to indicate italic, the squiggles to indicate bold, the subsections
lettered (a) and the sub-subsections numbered (i)?  Will it all be 
{\tt ...} because the Royal Society says "papers should be ...  typewritten"?
 
While authors and support staff may have to deal with present reality and
deal with the "Instructions for Authors" as they currently are, I don't
really think that it is sensible for each author to hack up (or persuade
their computing centre to hack up) style files for the journals to which
they wish to submit.  I think the journals themselves should aim to provide
authors with an electronic route to publication.  With the onus on the
journals, only one person per journal has to do style files, whereas with
the onus on authors, several people per journal may have a go, but (quite
reasonably) none of them may do a complete job, because all they really
want to do is "submit this paper".
 
So, whatever Ian does to help his user with the current paper, I would
suggest that he tries to persuade his user to write, as an author, to the
Royal Society to suggest that they develop some plans for electronic
submission of papers:
*  Their plans could involve TeX.  Since the Royal Society delegates
   printing to Cambridge University Press, perhaps Rod Mulvey and Co.
   could help drag the Royal Society into the 1990s.  Under this scenario,
   perhaps Rod Mulvey and Co. could do the appropriate style files (LaTeX
   and BibTeX)?  Then potential authors (like Ian's user) could be
   supplied with the style files (like the American Mathematical Society,
   the Institute of Physics, and Wiley's "Electronic Publishing ..." supply
   their authors with style-files): it wouldn't be a matter of each 
   potential user trying to make their own arrangements.  [With a view 
   to this scenario, I've taken the liberty of sending the Royal Society's
   Editorial Office a copy of the flyer for the meeting about "Book and
   Journal Production" on 11th February!]
*  Their plans might not involve TeX.  They might develop other plans 
   for electronic publishing:
   - supporting certain wordprocessors, with references organised by certain
     PC programs such as EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager.  Again
     the Royal Society could supply style files to make the software
     that organises the references deliver lists in "Royal Society" style
   - using SGML, with the Royal Society supplying authors with
     SGML-sensitive editors and software that formats reference-lists
     in "Royal Society" style.
   [If their plans don't involve TeX, potential authors will probably
   find life easier if they fit in with whatever the plans are.]
 
Does anyone else submit papers to Royal Society publications, and fancy
writing to the Royal Society suggesting that they should develop plans
that take account of post-typewriter developments?  I don't really think
that the onus should be on Ian's user, Ian, or on public-spirited readers
of UKTeX.  I think the onus should be on the journal-publishers (in this
case, the Royal Society).
 
                                                                David Rhead

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Date:    Thu, 23 Jan 92 09:53:06
From:    Mike Piff <PM1MJP@uk.ac.sheffield.primea>
Subject: emTeX beta-test versions, switch /mp

The beta-test versions of EMTeX appear not to understand the option
/mp=#
despite the documentation.

Mike Piff

>From   Dr M. J. Piff, Department of Pure Mathematics, PO Box 597,
       Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road,
       SHEFFIELD S10 2UN, England.
Tel.   SHEFFIELD (0742) 768555 Extension 4431.
JANET  MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.PA  or MPiff@UK.AC.SHEF.IBM

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Date:    Thu, 16 Jan 92 13:57:20 +0100
From:    Schoepf%de.zib-berlin.sc@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay
Subject: LaTeX -- the story continues

After the release of the LaTeX sources last month I have received some
bug reports. The two most critical points were bibliographies (which
led to strange error messages when they had more than 26 entries) and the
titlepage style option (which did not work any more).

Therefore I had release a corrected version. It is, as usual, on 

rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.1.12] (soft/tex/latex)

and

LISTSERV@DHDURZ1.BITNET

For the benefit of those that have Larry wall's patch program I have
put a file called LaTeX-Dec91-Jan92.diff into the Stuttgart archive.

I append the readme for the update.

One final remark: it was reported that there was one line in
lfonts.tex with more than 80 characters. Therefore I broke this line
into two and recommend that you either do the same or fetch this file
as well.

Rainer Sch"opf

PS: ``I sincerely hope there won't be any more!''


- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
LaTeX version 2.09 -- Release of Jan 14, 1992
- ---------------------------------------------

After the release of Dec91 a number of errors and incompatibilities
were reported. In particular, the titlepage option of the article
document style did no longer work, and there were two problems with
the thebibliography environment:

- - Documents with more than 26 entries would produce strange error messages.
- - Styles derived from article would produce wrong numbers.

These errors (and a few minor ones) have been corrected.

The files changed are (see also LATEX.BUG for more details):

latex.tex
local.tex
lplain.tex
slitex.tex
splain.tex
article.doc/sty
art10.doc/sty
art11.doc/sty
art12.doc/sty
book.doc/sty
bk10.doc/sty
bk11.doc/sty
bk12.doc/sty
openbib.doc/sty
report.doc/sty
rep10.doc/sty
rep11.doc/sty
rep12.doc/sty
latex.bug

- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 92 15:41:00 +0000
From:    Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.southampton.ecs>
Subject: rotating style for LaTeX

For about 4 years I have been occasionally trying to get right a set
of macros for performing arbitrary rotations of LaTeX material, using
a PostScript driver. A complete new system is offered, a style option
`rotating.sty', which provides three environments

  - sideways
     rotates the contents through 90 degrees
  - rotate[#1]
     rotates the contents by [#1] degrees, leaving no space at all
  - turn[#1]
     rotates the contents by [#1] degrees, leaving the correct space
     taken up by the rotated box
This time I have got it right as regards all the points of the
compass, and the depth of TeX boxes.

There are also two environments `sidewaysfigure' and `sidewaystable'
which rotate an entire float through 90 degrees. HOWEVER, these don't
always work! Sometimes the float never appears at all.

The distribution consists of
   rotating.doc       documented style file
   rotating.sty       style file stripped of comments
   rotating.tex       driver file to print documented code, and
                      provide samples of rotation
   rot{01,02,03,04}.eps, cat.eps   PostScript files needed for
                                   documentation
   example.sty        style file needed for documentation

The user will need to have psfig1.8, and to use dvips or dvitops as
their driver. If anyone adds code for another driver, I'd like to hear
about it.

I'd appreciate comments on all this; in particular an explanation from a
guru about the circumstances in which floats can vanish. I am pretty
sure we have allowed for all the vagaries of rotation and TeX boxes,
but obviously we haven't tested every conceivable case. 

Sebastian Rahtz
ArchaeoInformatica, 5 Granary Court, St Andrewgate, York Y01 2JR, UK
spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs

  All the files appear in the UK TeX Archive in
  [tex-archive.latex.contrib.rotating]

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Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 92 15:47:11 +0000
From:    Sebastian Rahtz <spqr@uk.ac.southampton.ecs>
Subject: LaTeX syntax checker

in [tex-archive.utils.lacheck] you will find a program which
checks a LaTeX document for syntax errors (braces, environments
etc), written by Kresten Krab Thorup (hope name is right!). For
the benefit of MSDOS users, I have added `lacheck.boo' which is
an encoded MSDOS lacheck.exe, a runnable program. I havent
tested it much, but it seems to work OK

Sebastian Rahtz

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Date:    Mon, 20 Jan 92 15:07:24 -0600
From:    ec%be.ac.fundp.math@uk.ac.earn-relay
Subject: EP'92 Conference

The organizer of the EP92 meeting on Electroning publishing asks me to
repost her announcement. So, I do this for UkTeX.
 
		Eric CORNELIS
		FUNDP (University of Namur)
		Mathematics Department
		Groupe de Recherche sur les
		Transports (GRT)
	e-mail : EC@MATH.FUNDP.AC.BE
	                 ECORNELIS@CC.FUNDP.AC.BE
	                 ECORNELIS@BNANDP51.bitnet
 
- ---------------CUT HERE--------------------
 
                 EP92 Conference Program and Registration Form
                 ---------------------------------------------
 
An international Conference on Electronic Publishing, Document Manipulation and
Typography will be held in Lausanne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(Switzerland), on April 7-10, 1992.
 
This conference is the fourth in a series of international conferences
dedicated to all areas of electronic publishing. The first two conferences in
the series, EP'86 in Nottingham, England, and EP'88 in Nice, France,
concentrated mainly, on the specific aspect of the production of documents by
computer, from composition to printing. Since EP'90  which was held in
Washington a broader definition of "Electronic Publishing" was adopted to
encompass all aspects of computer-assisted preparation, presentation, storage
and retrieval of documents.
 
EP'92 completes this research topics with a set of TUTORIALS in the area of
text databases, hypertext and standards. Another novelty is a WORKSHOP (TEP'92)
dedicated to the teaching of desktop publishing techniques.
 
The proceedings of EP'92 will be published by Cambridge University Press in
its Electronic Publishing Series and a copy will be provided to each conference
attendee.
 
 
TOPICS
- ------
 
- - Document structures
- - Document manipulation systems
- - Distributed documents
- - Standards and norms
- - Hypertext
- - User interface
- - Semantic text structure
- - Document and databases
- - Composition
- - Typography
- - Greyscale
- - Teaching EP
 
 
TUTORIALS (Tuesday, April 7)
- ---------
 
The tutorials cover three main subjects partly presented in parallel sessions:
databases, hypermedia and document standards. The following material is planned
the lectures:
 
1. Information retrieval (G.Salton, Cornell University, USA)
2. SGML (E. van Herwijnen, CERN, Switzerland)
3. Hypertext and databases (F.Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
4. ODA vs SGML (R.Schlupp, Rank Xerox, Zurich, Switzerland)
5. Hypermedia (p.Kahn, Dynamic Diagrams, Providence, USA)
6. SGML and databases (F. Chahuneau, Berger-Levrault, France)
 
 
TEP'92 (Tuesday, April 7)
- ------
 
TEP'92 is a workshop and a exhibition sponsored by DIDOT, a CEE/Comett project.
It will be held in parallel with the tutorials.This workshop will be dedicated
to discussing the teaching of desktop publishing, document manipulation and
typography. It will relate experiments, curricula and materials, mainly
connected with long term courses and dedicated to the following themes:
 
- - How much conputer science must be taught to typography specialists, editors
  and publishers?
- - How can scientists or humanists be taught about desktop publishing?
- - Specific problems of desktop publishing in underdeveloped countries.
- - How to teach digital typography?
 
                         TEP'92 committee
                         ----------------
 
Jacques Andre, INRIA-Rennes, France (Chairman)
David Brailsford, University of Nottingham, GB
Henri-Paul Bronsard, Collhge du Vieux Montreal, Canada
Giovanni Coray, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
Mary Dyson, Department of Typography, University of Reading, UK
Jean-Daniel Fekete, Ecole Estienne, Paris, France
Richard Furuta, University of Maryland, USA
Peter King, University of Manitoba, Canada
Hans Van Vliet, Free University, Amsterdam, NL
 
 
CONFERENCE (Wednesday to Friday, April 8-10)
- ----------
 
Detailed program is available on request to the conference secretariat.
 
 
ORGANIZATION
- ------------
 
Conference Chair
 
Christine Vanoirbeek  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
                      Switzerland
 
 
Program Committee Chair
 
Giovanni Coray        Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
                      Switzerland
 
 
Program committee
 
Debra Adams           Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Jacques Andri         INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France
Patrick Baudelaire    Digital Paris Research Laboratory, France
Richard J. Beach      Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, USA
Charles Bigelow       Stanford University, USA
David F. Brailsford   University of Nottingham, UK
Allen Brown           Xerox Corporation, New York, USA
Heather Brown         University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Hans-Peter Frei       Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Z|rich, Switzerlan
d
Richard Furuta        University of Maryland, USA
Charles F. Goldfarb   IBM Almaden Research Center, USA
Roger D. Hersch       Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne,
                      Switzerland
Rolf Ingold           University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Peter King            University of Manitoba, Canada
Brian Kernighan       AT & T Bell Laboratories, USA
Dario Lucarella       University of Milan, Italy
Pierre MacKay         University of Washington, USA
Robert A. Morris      University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Marc Nanard           CRIM, Montpellier, France
Vincent Quint         INRIA/IMAG, Grenoble, France
Richard Rubinstein    Digital Equipment Corporation, USA
Gerard Salton         Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Alan Shaw             University of Washington, USA
Hans Van Vliet        Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jan Walker            Digital Equipment Corporation, USA
Wang Xuan             Peking University, Beijing, China
 
 
CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT
- ----------------------
 
EP92 - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
IN Ecublens
CH - 1015 Lausanne
SWITZERLAND
 
Tel: (41) 21 693 25 86  /  (41) 21 693 25 75
Fax: (41) 21 693 52 63
E-Mail: ep92@eldi.epfl.ch
 
 
- -------------------------  REGISTRATION FORM  -------------------------------
-
 
 
NAME:
FIRST NAME:
AFFILIATION:
ADDRESS:
TEL:
FAX:
TELEX:
E-MAIL:
 
 
Registration fee: (Please fill with the correct amounts)
- ----------------
 
Registration fee includes luncheons and one copy of the proceedings.
Students get 50% reduction on the conference and the tutorials (no luncheons
included).
 
 
                  BEFORE MArch 7, 1992    AFTER March 7, 1992
                  --------------------    -------------------
 
tutorial:             SFr. 360.--            SFr. 450.--     SFr.
conference:           SFr. 200.--            SFr. 250.--     SFr.
visit + dinner        SFr.  50.--            SFr.  50.--     SFr.
Student Reduction     (50% on conference & tutorial)         (Y/N)
                                                             ============
 
                                                      TOTAL: SFr.
 
 
Payment mode (1,2,3,4?) :
- ------------
 
1) Visa International   Card no:                     Expiration:
 
2) Master Card          Card no:                     Expiration:
 
3) Cheque sent to EP92 (payable in Swiss Francs)
 
4) Bank Transfer or money order sent to:  EP92 Account No F4 - 703 762.0
                                          SBS Branch EPFL - UNI
                                          CH - 1015 Lausanne
                                          SWITZERLAND
 
Hotel reservation
- -----------------
 
Please send me the hotel reservation form to be returned to:
 
        Lausanne Tourist Office
        Case Postale 248
        CH - 1000 Lausanne
        SWITZERLAND
 
For information, hotel tarifs are the followings:
 
_______________________________________________________________________________
  Category                           Rooms with bath / shower
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
                          1 bed            2 beds            2 beds / 1 pers.
 
   ****                   SFr. 165.--      SFr. 225.--       SFr. 190.--
   ***                    SFr. 135.--      SFR. 180.--       SFr. 160.--
   **                     SFr.  95.--      SFr. 140.--
_______________________________________________________________________________
 
 
Your registration will be validated on receipt of payment. We strongly advise
you to make advance hotel reservation.
 
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\section DIGESTS

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    (JANET e-mail address: kellett@uk.ac.cran.rmcs)
    
\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
    All enquiries for disks etc. should be directed to:
    The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
    (JANET e-mail address: mdryden@uk.co.compulink.cix)

\section POSTAGE RATES
    All prices in Pounds Sterling.
    For Aston orders, make cheques payable to Aston University.

    0.5" tapes: UK: 2.50 (one tape),  5.00 (two tapes).
	    Europe: 5.00 (one tape),  9.00 (two tapes).
	    Outside Europe please enquire.
    8mm tapes:
	    UK: 1.00,  Europe: 2.00.
    Quarter-inch cartridges:
	    UK: 1.00,  Europe: 2.00.
    Diskettes:
    Quantity/Size   Europe   World    UK 1st   UK 2nd
      18/3.5"	     3.10     5.10     1.40	1.10
      11/3.5"	     1.80     2.90     0.80	0.65
      18/5.25"	     1.20     2.00     0.60	0.50
      11/5.25"	     0.80     1.30     0.50	0.35

\section POSTAL ADDRESSES
    Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage.

    Peter Abbott
    Information Systems, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham B4 7ET

    David Osborne
    Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
    (for Quarter-inch cartridges ONLY -- include stamps for return postage)

\section UK TeX USERS GROUP

    For details, contact:
    Geeti Granger, Text Processing Dept, John Wiley & Sons, 
    Baffins Lane, Chichester, W Sussex PO19 1UD  (tel: 0243 770329)
 or David Penfold, Edgerton Publishing Services,
    30 Edgerton Road, Edgerton, Huddersfield HD3 3AD (tel: 0484 519462)


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