\title{Editorial: what's this issue all about?}
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Your committee has long aimed to ensure that the \acro{UK} makes a
valuable contribution to the world of \TeX: for example, it is
possible to claim that the \acro{UK} \TeX{} archive led the world in
comprehensive provision, and members of your committee continue to
take active part in maintaining the internationally-linked \acro{CTAN}
system of archives.

The idea of maintaining the \acro{UK}'s profile motivated us to
produce the `Frequently Asked Questions' (\FAQ) issues that appeared
as `Christmas Editions' of Baskerville for 1994 and 1995.  At the time
that we decided to prepare the 1994 \FAQ{}, we had noted the
great value of the \acro{NTG}'s 4All\TeX{} which had at the time just
been released.  We knew then that we could not hope to produce a
\CDROM{} in the short term, but we agreed at the time that a similar
disc, targeted at Unix\textsuperscript{TM} systems would be a useful thing
to have.  The rest is history (and is well explained in the
documentation of the \CDROM{}, that constitutes the only `article' of
this issue of \BV).

Members will recall that we offered the first version of this \CDROM{}
to them, for sale.  Considering the economics of the matter, and given
an assurance that useful software for other platforms (notably
Microsoft- and \acro{OS}/2-based \acro{PC}s and Macintoshes) could be
included on the disc, your committee decided to circulate every member
with a copy in lieu of two issues of \BV.

I would welcome feedback from members on their views of the value of
the offering, and what (if anything) we might do to improve it.  I
continue to maintain the \FAQ{}: would members welcome its
republication, perhaps as Baskerville Vol.~7 No.~6\Dash nominally the
1997 Christmas edition?

As I mentioned in a brief `post-editorial' in Baskerville Vol.~6
No.~4, the extreme lateness of that issue was almost exclusively my
fault.  As a result, this double issue is following very closely on
the heels of the last, and Vol.~7 No.~1 is also in an advanced stage
of preparation.  We maintain the fond hope that we will have brought
ourselves up-to-date before the end of 1997, but~\dots\ we continue to
rely, to a large extent, on external sources of articles for \BV.
Please do submit them to Sebastian Rahtz, as mentioned in the banner
line of each issue of \BV!
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