\title{Editorial}
\author[\mbox{}]{David Carlisle \\ Mathematics Department\\Manchester 
University}
\begin{article}

Welcome to the first \BV~of 1996. As announced in \BV~5.4 Sebastian Rahtz
has given up the editorship to devote more
time to the TUG board. I am sure that all \ukt\ members have
appreciated Sebastian's efforts in masterminding a regular production
of the journal. As Sebastian notes in a letter in this issue it was
not a single handed effort, but nevertheless he must take much of the
credit.


One of the major \TeX\ events of last year was the re-release of the
`Cork' encoded Computer Modern fonts. This release 1.2 of the dc fonts
fixed many bugs and improved the fonts in many small but important
ways. English language users can (and most of them do!) get by
with the old computer modern encoding of Knuth, but the future
in an increasingly international community must be with the Cork 8-bit
encoding, and so as a mark of the new release this issue has departed
from its epononymous text font and uses the 10pt Roman font dcr1000 as
its main face. (Eagle eyed readers will no doubt already have noticed
that the `alternative' hyphenation character is being used.)

The position of editor is still \emph{vacant}! If you are interested
in the possibility of becoming editor (or guest-editing a single
issue) please contact the committee at the above address.

Currently the editorship will rotate amongst the committee
members. Robin Fairbairns again masterminded the FAQ issue, I have
this one, Malcolm Clark will take \BV~6.2 and Carol Hewlett~6.3\ldots

No matter who is the editor, \BV\ can not function without a supply of
contributed articles. Sebastian has agreed to remain a `collection
point' for contributions, so they should continue to be sent to
him at the address above.

Submission dates are as follows:

\begin{submissiondates}
6.2& April 3& April 17 & April 26\\
6.3& June 3&  June 7 & June 21\\
6.4& August 5& August 16 &  August 30
\end{submissiondates}

We made a mistake in the FAQ issue.  Jonathan Fine hopes to complete
his macro package for typesetting SGML documents during 1996, and not
by May as we stated in Question 50.
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