\centerline{\bf Excuses}
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I apologise. Jost Krieger is not Dutch, he is German.
Sorry. In my review of Schwarz \& Krieger's
`Introduction to \TeX' in \Texline{\sl X\/} I assumed that
because the volume was printed by Addison Wesley
Netherlands that Jost was Dutch. I confess that the basic
excellence of the translation encouraged me that only a
Dutchman could be quite that comfortable in English. I
fall victim to chauvinism. How embarassing.

My other excuse is to all those who thought that  my
announcement of the availability of the \TeX88 conference
proceeding meant they would see them soon. I had sent
labels with the names and addresses of all the conference
participants to the publisher. They sent them to their
distributors. The distributors claimed never to have
received them, and it took us some considerable time to
realise that something had gone wrong. I have since
supplied more labels, and this time they got to the
distributer. So perhaps by now you have your proceedings,
and we can collectively heave a sigh of relief.
 \author{\mwc}