by Michael J. Downes
On Tuesday afternoon, August 17, 1999, there
was a pause in the
afternoon program of regular presentations to extend special
recognition to Donald Arseneau. The
recognition took the form of a
framed Duane Bibby
original drawing
that had been commissioned by the TEX Users Group. The drawing was presented
by Michael Downes with some brief remarks, reproduced here
in an extremely free paraphrase.
Over the years many people have made substantial contributions to the
community of TEX users without receiving any financial compensation in
return. Donald Knuth himself, of course, to kick it all
off by giving TEX into the public domain, but TEX users around the world have
also benefited greatly from the efforts of people such as
Tomas Rokicki (dvips),
Eberhard Mattes (emTEX),
Thomas Esser (teTEX), the
members of the LaTEX team, and many others too numerous to name. The occasion
of holding a
TUG
meeting here at UBC,
however, seemed a propitious opportunity for extending some small recognition to
someone who lives right here in Vancouver who has helped many TEX users over the
years. He has not had any advance warning that we were planning to do this, but we
would like to present something to Donald Arseneau.
Donald's contributions to the TEX community fall into two categories: