\title{UKTUG Information}
\author{}
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\section{The 1997--98 \ukt\ committee}
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\textbf{Chair:} Philip Taylor: \url{p.taylor@vms.rhbnc.ac.uk}\\
\textbf{Treasurer \& Membership Secretary:}\\
Peter Abbott: \url{peter.abbott@cl.cam.ac.uk}\\
\textbf{Secretary:} Jonathan Fine: \url{j.fine@pmms.cam.ac.uk}\\

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Kaveh Bazargan: \url{kaveh@focal.demon.co.uk}\\
Malcolm Clark: \url{malcolm.clark@kcl.ac.uk}\\
Roy Everett: \url{purpose@compuserve.com}\\
Robin Fairbairns: \url{Robin.Fairbairns@cl.cam.ac.uk}\\
David Hardy: \url{editent@btinternet.com}\\
Sebastian Rahtz: \url{s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk}\\
Kim Roberts: \url{robertsk@oup.co.uk}\\
Mark Wooding: \url{mdw@ebi.ac.uk} \\
Dominik Wujastyk: \url{ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk}\\
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\section{Contacting \ukt}
Please send \ukt\ subscriptions, and book or software orders, to
the Treasurer: Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB. 
Fax/telephone: 0121 476 2159. 

General enquires should be sent to the Secretary: Jonathan Fine,
203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY. Telephone: 01223 215389.

\ukt\ maintains pages on the World Wide Web at \url{http://www.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/}
Email enquiries about \ukt\ to \protect\texttt{uktug-enquiries@tex.ac.uk}.

\section{Baskerville}
Articles may be submitted via electronic mail to
\texttt{baskerville@tex.ac.uk}, or on MSDOS-compatible discs, to
Sebastian Rahtz, Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane,
Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, to whom any correspondence concerning \BV\ 
should also be addressed.  Back issues from the previous 12 months may
be ordered from \ukt\ for \pounds2 each; earlier issues are archived
on \textsc{ctan} in \texttt{usergrps/uktug}.

\section{Book Discounts for \protect\ukt\ members}
We have arrangements with Addison-Wesley for
their well-known \TeX-related publications, and with International
Thomson Publishing to supply any of the very excellent O'Reilly \&
Associates Inc.\ series of books to members.

The agreed list of books, together with the discounted (at least 20\%)
price, is distributed occasionally with \BV, but is always available
from the Treasurer.

Please add \pounds1.50 for the first book and 50p for each book after
the first on the same order, for despatch to a single address

We are only allowed to offer this service to \textbf{current} members
of the \ukt\ and/or members of \acro{TUG}. Please send your order
and cheque (in \acro{UK} \pounds) to Peter Abbott.  Make cheques
payable to `\acro{UKTUG}' please.  All books will be routed through
\ukt. \emph{In all cases} please notify Peter Abbott by email, phone,
fax or letter when books are delivered. This means that provided the
book(s) are in stock, it will normally take at least a week from
receipt of order to delivery of the book(s).

\section{Obtaining \TeX\ from CTAN}

The \acro{UK} \TeX\ Archive on \texttt{ftp.tex.ac.uk} is part of the
\acro{CTAN} (Comprehensive \TeX\ Archive Network) collaborating
network of archives on the Internet organised by the \TeX\ Users
Group.

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%options.  Fetch the top-level file {\tt README.archive-features} for
%information.  The server also supports site-defined commands to assist
%you. Please read {\tt README.site-commands} for a brief overview.

For interfaces and catalogues of CTAN, you are referred to Graham
Williams' \emph{\TeX{} and \LaTeX{} Catalogue} which is available from
\acro{CTAN} as \path|help/Catalogue/catalogue.html|; other interfaces
are listed in \url{http://www.tug.org/interest.html}.

Please report any problems with \acro{CTAN} archives via email to
\texttt{ctan@urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de}.


\subsection{Obtaining \TeX\ on CD-ROM}
\ukt, in collaboration with \acro{GUT}enberg, \acro{TUG},
\acro{NTG} and \acro{DANTE}, have produced \TeX{} Live, a plug-and-play
\acro{CD}-\acro{ROM} for Unix, Amiga and Windows based on the Web2c
\TeX{} setup.  As it is formatted according to \acro{ISO} 9660, the
platform-independent files can, in principle, be read on all operating
systems which can deal with that format, or Microsoft Joliet extensions.
The \acro{CD} is available free of charge to members of \ukt\ and to
non-members at \pounds2.  

Complete DOS, Windows 32 and Macintosh implementations are also
available as packages on the \acro{CD}; floppy disk sets will now be
supplied only on special request.

\section{Future meetings of \ukt}
The next meeting for members of \ukt{} will be in Oxford, on Monday
18th May.  The title is \textit{Multiple use of
digital documents}.  It will discuss some of the problems and opportunities
involved in using the same source file for several purposes.  We hope
to go from the everyday and mundane, namely the production of journals
and books from author supplied compuscripts, to the advanced and
esoteric, namely using \TeX{} as an adjunct to electronic publishing. 
We also hope to take in technical documentation along the way.

Plans are also afoot for the meeting associated to the AGM.  This
   will be in Cambridge, on Monday 21 September.  The title is
\textit{\TeX{} in its diversity}.  If you have done something with
\TeX{} that you think others might be interested in hearing about,
please let the organisers know, because they are looking for
speakers.  In addition, if there is sufficient interest, workshops
and training will be organised for the next day.

Finally, both in Oxford and Cambridge there are tentative plans to
hold a least a trial local meeting for \TeX{} users.  If you are
interested please contact Kim Roberts or Jonathan Fine respectively.

The May meeting is being organised by Kim Roberts, Roy Everett and
Jonathan Fine.  The September meeting is being organised by Robin
Fairbairns, Martyn Johnson and Jonathan Fine .  For further information
please contact one of these people, or visit the \ukt{} Web site.  In
addition, with this issue there should be some flyers.

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