TUGboat 17(3), September 1996


Addresses                                                       239

From the President
    Michel Goossens                                             241
    Barbara Beeton
        Editorial Comments                                      242
        TeX Live: a CD-ROM for Unix;
        CTAN update; The new  ltugboat.cls;
        Frequently asked questions about TeX;
        Books about TeX, books prepared in TeX, 
        and other bibliographies; TeX output 
        from a Web browser ---  Techexplorer

Software & Tools
    Petr Sojka, Han The Thanh and Jirí Zlatuska
        The joy of TeX2PDF ---  Acrobatics with an 
        alternative to DVI format                               244
    Sergey Lesenko
        The DVIPDF Program                                      252


TeX tensions
    Jonathan Fine
        Editing .dvi files, or Visual TeX                       255

Philology
    Irina A. Makhovaya
        TeX in Russia: ab ovo, or, About
        the TeXnical evolution in Russia                        259


Graphics
    Sebastian Rahtz
        LaTeX,  dvips, EPS and the web...                       264
    Kees van der Laan
        Graphics and TeX -- A reappraisal of MF/MetaPost/PS     269


Book Reviews
    David Thompson
        Stanley Sawyer and Steven Krantz,
        A TeX Primer for Scientists                             280
    Wlodek Bzyl
        David Salomon,
        The Advanced TeXbook                                    281

Tutorials
    Robin Fairbairns
        The new (LaTeX2e) TUGboat macros                         282
    Keith Reckdahl
        Using EPS graphics in LaTeX2e documents, Part 2: 
        Floating figures, boxed figures, captions, and math
        in figures                                              288

Macros
    Jordi Saludes
        Fast and secure multiple-option tests                   310
    Peter Schmitt
        A puzzling TeX macro                                    319

LaTeX
    David Carlisle
        A LaTeX tour, Part 2:
        The tools and graphics distributions                    321

News & Announcements
         Calendar                                               326
    Mimi Burbank
        Production notes                                        327
        Future issues                                           327

TUG Business
        Election notice and ballot                              240
        TUG'97 Call for Papers                                  328
        Institutional members                                   329

Forms
        TUG membership application                              330

Advertisements
        TeX consulting and production services                  331



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