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+\centerline{\bf SGML Users' Group Meeting}
+\medskip
+\noindent
+A meeting of the {\sc sgml} Users' Group took
+place at the British Standards Institution in London time
+on January 11th, 1988. It was informative with software demonstrations
+taking place at the back of the room in the break periods.
+
+{\sc sobemap} products were presented by Joan Smith and
+Jean-Pierre Gaspart, introducing new releases of the
+full features parser, as well as new products
+destined to enter the marketplace. Among these were
+an interactive editor intended as an authoring tool,
+a formatter, and a graphical editor. This last product would enable document
+type definitions ({\sc dtd}s) to be represented graphically,
+and also {\sc sgml} databases. In this way hypertext
+applications would become possible. If you have an {\sc ibm}
+or compatible pc, and are at a university (or other educational
+institution), {\sc sobemap} will make the parser
+available free of charge for teaching or basic research.
+More details of this offer are given in the next article.
+
+
+Martin Bryan of Quorum followed with
+a very practical look at {\sc sgml} from typesetting markup
+through to {\sc sgml} itself, listing
+the advantages of going to {\sc sgml}. His advice was to
+take a simple
+starting point, using no more than twenty tags to markup a manual, treating
+tables, figures, and other exotic elements as externals.
+The main advantage of {\sc sgml} was its rigour, checking the document
+against its previously formulated description.
+
+Elsevier is already taking the {\sc sgml} route. Jan Bleeker
+described a study carried out prior to their
+adoption of the standard. A start has been made with bibliographic data and
+abstracts, and there are plans for electronic document delivery and
+making the publication process electronic, in addition to the
+availability of information through a database host for the provision of secondary
+services.
+
+A parser under consideration by Elsevier was that developed at the
+Free University of Amsterdam. The author of this, Jos Warmer, spoke
+of its capabilities --- it is for basic {\sc sgml} and has been tailored
+to the Elsevier {\sc dtd}. Next on his wish list is an interactive
+editor, within a two-year timescale.
+
+Mike Cowlishaw of {\sc ibm} rounded off the day with a very professional
+presentation of {\sc lexx}, the structured editor developed whilst
+he was seconded to the New Oxford English Dictionary project. The
+examples were illustrated in glorious technicolour as
+he gave a slide show on the capabilities of the editor. The snag is
+that you need a blue mainframe for this product.
+
+The next meeting of the Group is April 11th, again
+at the {\sc bsi} in London. All are welcome.
+
+\rightline{\sl Joan Smith}
+