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TUGboat 2:3, November 1981
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Complete issue 2:3 as one pdf (5.3mb) 
Title page   1 
Addresses of officers, authors and others   2 
Official announcements   3 
 
General Delivery
Message from the Chairman 
  Michael Spivak  		 3-4 
General Delivery   3-7 
TUG Treasurer's report 
  Samuel B. Whidden  		 4 
The current state of things 
  Donald Knuth  		 5-6 
TUG Winter 1982 meeting, January 11–12, 1982, Cincinnati, Ohio 
  Tom Pierce  		 7 
 
Software
Pascal-coded TeX errata 
  Arthur Samuel  		 7-8 
The format of PXL files 
  David Fuchs  		 8-12 
 
Output Devices
Sample of output from an IDS-640 
  John Sauter  		 13 
Output device index 
  Rilla J. Thedford  		 14 
A Varian output driver in VAX/VMS Fortran 
  Jim Mooney  		 14-15 
Diabolic TeX 
  Timothy Murphy  		 15-21 
 
Site Reports
News from the home front (Stanford) 
  David Fuchs  		 21-22 
Site Reports   21-34 
TeX under the North Star 
  Michael Frisch  		 22-23 
A TUGboat tour: Excerpts from the TeXnician's log 
  Barbara Beeton  		 23-25 
TeX for the HP3000 
  Lance Carnes  		 25-26 
TeX for the IBM 370 
  Susan Plass  		 26-27 
TeX in Israel 
  Jeffrey S. Rosenschein  		 27-28 
TeX at the University of Michigan, summary of progress 
  David Rodgers  		 28-29 
VAX on UNIX 
  Robert Morris  		 29 
TeX at CalTech 
  Calvin Jackson  		 29-32 
The status of VAX/TeX at Brown 
  Janet Incerpi  		 32 
Enhancements of VAX/VMS TeX at Calma 
  John Blair  		 32-34 
VAX/VMS site report 
  Monte Nichols  		 32 
“Poor man's” TeX 
  John Sauter  		 34-35 
 
Fonts
Font update 
  Ronald Whitney  		 35 
 
Warnings & Limitations
Don't just \let TeX hang, \raise or \lower it 
  Barbara Beeton  		 35 
 
Macros
Editor's introduction 
  Lynne Price  		 36 
TUGboat macro index 
  Lynne Price  		 36-37 
Bubbles: A TeXtension in search of a TeXpert 
  Timothy Murphy  		 37-38 
Charting your grammar with TeX 
  Michael F. Plass  		 39-56 
Chemical notation using TeX 
  Monte Nichols, Barbara Beeton  		 57-58 
 
Problems
Balancing columns of text and translation (from Johnny Stovall)   58-59 
Problems 
  Lynne Price  		 58-65 
Input-dependent macro redefinition (from Mike Spivak)   59-60 
A macro that prints its name (from Anthony Siegman)   60-61 
Testing the equivalence of strings   61 
Problems from the TeXarcana class: Answers, and another problem   61-65 
 
Letters et alia
Letters et alia 
  J. M. Cole  		 66 
Formatting a book with TeX: Experiences and observations 
  Michael Sannella  		 66-74 
 
Miscellaneous
Instructions for submitting TUGboat articles on magnetic tape 
Membership application and order form 
 
Supplements
TeX and Metafont Errata 
TUG membership list 
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