\title{Electronic Publishing Out of the Playpen!}
The theme of this BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group conference will be `the
future of Electronic Publishing in the real world'. Partly for economic reasons,
partly because there is a lack of confidence in the ability of some Electronic
Publishing products to provide cost-effective solutions and partly because some
practitioners are so blinkered that they cannot see beyond their own pet software,
there is currently something of a crisis in certain areas of Electronic Publishing.

{\sl Electronic Publishing Out of the Playpen!\/} is intended to provide a platform
for discussion on how Electronic Publishing can be, and is being, used in practical
applications in a number of organisations, in the hope that some light can be shed on
aspects of this crisis and on future developments and applications in the field.
Moreover, by involving speakers from elsewhere in Europe, the intention is to view 
this in the context of the Open European Market of 1992.

Invited speakers (to be confirmed) will include:
\item{}Jacques Andr\'e of the University of
Rennes, one of the initiators of the DIDOT project to coordinate
training in numerical typography.
\item{}David Fawthrop, who has developed the algorithms and
programs for the hyphenation of
nearly 40 languages, used in the Hyphenologist
programs.
\item{}Nico Poppelier of Elsevier, a nuclear physicist who is now working
on author submission of manuscripts using \TeX\ and conversion of these
and other word processing formats to \SGML.
\item{}Eric van Herwijnen of CERN, author of {\sl Practical
SGML}.

Contributed papers on related and other
relevant topics are welcomed. The proceedings will not be published and
therefore only a title and abstract are required in advance. Talks
concerned with practical experience will be particularly welcome.
If you wish to submit a paper, please send a title and abstract to: 
{\obeylines
{\sl Electronic Publishing Out of the Playpen!}
BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group
30 Edgerton Road
Huddersfield HD3 3AD
}

The conference will take place at Exeter College, Oxford on March 21st--22nd, 1991.
If you are not a member of
the BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group and would like details of the conference and/or details of Group Membership,
please write to the above address.