Daniel P. Dern is retiring as editor-in-chief of INTERNET WORLD magazine. It all started ten years ago doing Defense Data Network user documentation at BBN ... Dern will return to freelance writing and the promotion of his book from McGraw-Hill. "Internet books make great holiday gifts and also good wrist rests." IW correspondence may be sent to Mecklermedia, the new name for Meckler Corp.: meckler@jvnc.net, (800) MECKLER, (800) 858-3144 Fax. [ddern@world.std.com, net-hap, 12/22/93.]

The Internet Letter is offering a free, 3-month trial subscription. Send your name, organization, and mailing address to netweek@access.digex.net, by 12/31/93. [Jayne Levin (helen@access.digex.net), net-hap, 12/1/93.]

The Internet Business Journal has a new Gopher archive. It offers the 11/93 issue, all issues (one, so far) of Michael Strangelove's occasional Internet Advertising Review, and soon directories of Internet service providers and electronic journals and newsletters. Link to gopher.fonorola.net. [mstrange@fonorola.net, net-hap, 12/22.] (Strangelove is publishing a $20 book on Internet advertising, with derived essays used as IBJ columns, press releases, and gopher bait. An effective strategy.)

Global Internet's Electronic Newsstand (Enews) is offering discounts to "electronic" customers. New titles on their Enews Gopher are Daniel Dern's "The Internet Guide for New Users" and Michael Fraase's "The Mac Internet Tour Guide." Link to gopher.internet.com ("Special Projects" section) to scan tables of contents and other excerpts. You can also telnet gopher.internet.com (login enews). Paul Vizza (vizza@enews.com), (800) 403-6397. [Lisa M. Losito (lisa@ss1.digex.net), net-hap, 12/14/93.] (What, no GIFs of the covers? :-)

LaTeX2e is the new _standard_ version of LaTeX, compatible with all LaTeX 2.09 documents in SLiTeX, AmSLaTeX, etc. It uses the NFSS2 enhanced font scheme, with style files to match previous LaTeX variants. Beta release lacking graphics inclusion extensions. FTP latex2e-test from /tex-archive/macros /latex/distribs on ftp.tex.ac.uk, ftp.shsu.edu, or ftp.uni-stuttgart.de. Report bugs to the LaTeX3 Project (latex-bugs@rus.uni-stuttgart.de). Documentation will be published in 1994. [Rainer Schoepf (schoepf@sc.zib-berlin.de), comp.text.tex, 12/22/93.]

Electronic Book Technologies, Inc. (Providence, RI) has announced a "Rainbow" format and software that will convert most proprietary word-processor formats to a canonical, well-documented SGML format. This insulates publishers from updates to commercial word-processing software. Rainbow SGML may then be converted into the richer SGML structures (or Document Type Definitions) required by proprietary publishing tools. EBT's DynaText, for instance, converts SGML texts to dynamic electronic books. FTP the Rainbow DTD and Rainbow Makers from pub/outgoing/rainbow on ftp.ebt.com, or contact rainbow@ebt.com to subscribe to update notifications. Kent Summers (kjs@ebt.com), (401) 421-9550, (401) 421-9551 Fax. [comp.newprod, 12/14/93.]