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+\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.
+\end{article}