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To do this properly requires reversing the normal publication process. Too often people continue to write a document for printing on paper (e.g. a student handbook) and only when it is finished think of publishing it on the WWW (leaving someone with the nasty job of converting a Word document with no styles into HTML). Instead, we need systems in which publishing is first for the web, and you then just click on a button to run a program to convert it into output for printing. Incidentally, be wary of counting something as out of date. I get emails from around the world praising pages I wrote for my lecture notes 7 years ago. It turns out that these pages keep coming at the top of Google seaches, because they have so many citations (links) to them. A number of research collaborators and potential Ph.D. students first contacted me because an 'out of date' page interested them. Since they contact me directly, rather than going through a central communications office, and their market researchers do not send round questionaires asking about this, they probably count these pages as vanity publishing. -- Dr. David R. Newman, Queen's University Belfast, School of Management and Economics, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland (UK) Tel. (direct) +44 (0)28 9027 3643 (office) +44 (0)28 9033 5011 FAX: +44 (0)28 9033 5156 mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.qub.ac.uk/mgt/