A joint meeting of the BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group and the UK TeX Users Group held on February 15th, at the Brunei Building of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Following last January's successful meeting on Portable Documents we revisit the topic, pushing the logic further to consider what added value we can derive from our portable electronic documents. By this time we take it as axiomatic that anything which is to be worthwhile will also be structured. SGML is therefore firmly embedded into the day's programme. Newcomers include Framemaker, with what should be an excellent commercial SGML editor, and Euromath.
Document portability is only the first step.
The talk covered issues of interlinking, digital libraries and the Future of Publishing, with reference to the Figit initiative. Think of all those legacy documents that need to be added to the corporate database. Java, the Krakatoa of the Web . Henry will points us in the right direction to see the worthwhile potential. Euromath comes out from the shadows at last and talks to the world.