RANSVESTIA

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Please forgive the lateness of this issue but there have been some changes in the production of TRANSVESTIA necessitating the long delay! On top of my work with Tri-Sigma Sorority (which has mulitiplied several times over), and, of course all the work with CHEVALIER PUBLICATIONS, I have my regular business to attend to.

Normally in the production of this magazine, the typography and paste-up work have been done professionally before sending the material to the printer and the bindery. However, I decided that I needed to have more control over the various details of publishing the magazine and thus I have purchased an IBM elec- tronic Composing machine which does the typography right here in my Tri-Sigma and Chevalier office. Naturally, machines like this are not cheap and, in fact, the machine that I am now using costs almost $9,000.00. But I can do the work here in the office and even set up the individual pages on sheets of thin cardboard in preparation for the printer. The last issue of TRANSVESTIA was done by a professional typographer (at $8.00 a single side) but I did do the paste-up work for that issue. I also did all the lettering at the top of each article or story. However, in this issue the typography, paste-up, and lettering have been all done by me and I believe that this is the best way to go in the future. The composing machine is somewhat complicated to use, especially in doing certain typographical details. I still have not mastered the machine although I took an instruction class all day last Wednesday in Fresno. I should have gone for three days but I

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