\title{Editorial}
\begin{article}
\section{Portable documents meeting}
Most of the articles in this issue are based on talks given at the
\ukt's successful \emph{Portable Documents} meeting on January 19th at
the Bridewell Theatre, Fleet Street. We are very grateful to Jonathan
Fine for his hard work in transcribing the panel session, and to him,
Malcolm Clark and Carol Hewlett for working so hard to make the day a
success. Jonathan also provided the following summary of the papers:

\emph{Why Use SGML?} by David Barron
gives an overview of why portable documents are
important, and the value of SGML.
\emph{Formatting SGML Manuscripts} by Jonathan Fine
first describes some typographic problems, and then describes a new
\TeX\ macro package which will typeset directly from SGML document
instances.
\emph{HTML \& \TeX} by Peter Flynn
gives an overview, from the HTML document side, of the rapidly
expanding World Wide Web, and expresses opinion as to its future.
\emph{The Inside Story of Life at Wiley} by Geeti Granger is just
that.  It provides a valuable insight into the real-world problems
and solutions that arise in a busy production department.
\emph{Theory into Practice \ldots\ at Elsevier Science} by Martin Key
describes the progress they have made towards holding all new journal
articles in standard electronic form.
\emph{Questions and Answers}, prepared for publication by Jonathan Fine,
is an edited version of the lively and informative Panel Discussion
which closed the Bridewell meeting.
\emph{SGML and \LaTeX} by Horst Szillat
compares the two, and argues that there is a need to manipulate the data
during the conversion process.  (This paper was not presented at
Bridewell.)

\section{Bits and pieces}
Readers will already have noticed that this issue of \BV\ has been
expanded to make room for all the Bridwell papers, as well as the
usual more traditional \TeX\ fare. Thankfully, almost no room is left
for editorial comment. But we do need room to pass on a correction
from Arthur Smith about the Hyper\TeX\ project described in \BV\ 4.5;
the mailing lists have changed:
\begin{quote}
I am currently maintaining two mailing lists based at
\FTP|snorri.chem.washington.edu|: hypertex-announce is for
major announcements of new software or macros, and hypetex-dev
is for detailed discussions of the development of Hyper\TeX. Send e-mail
to \Email|majordomo@snorri.chem.washington.edu| with subscription and
information requests, or contact me directly
(\Email|asmith@mammoth.chem.washington.edu|).
\end{quote}
and to pass on important news from Peter Abbott.  Firstly,
\emph{Thinking in Postscript} by Glenn Reid is out of print and
Addison-Wesley say unlikely to be reprinted.  So don't order it.
Secondly, Peter has negotiated group licences for the shareware
products OzTeX version 1.8; DVIPS, \MF\ and the Alpha text
editor for Macintosh; and the Eddi4\TeX\ \TeX\ shell and editor for DOS.
Contact Peter for details if you want to take advantage of these licences;
they are only available to individual \ukt\ members.
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