Proposed change to issue driver file format               DCW; 1/22/05
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As part of my promise to Lance to look (after the first issue) at how to
have the Ask Nelly questions be subtitles to the Ask Nelly
title line in the TOC, I am thinking about the following (which
also provides other needed generality we have been discussing).

In the issue driver file, the default line for a paper, article,
or whatever, will stay the same:

piece|html-for-title|author-list|directory-name-for-paper

This means not too much typing in lots of cases.
However, I will let the author-list optionally be blank in
which case no author will be listed below the title in the TOC
(e.g., for the Ask Nelly case).  Then, rather than adding more
position fields, there can optionally be labeled fields in
any order, using continuation lines as necessary to fit in all the
fields, e.g.,

piece|html-for-title|author-list|directory-name-for-paper|=label1=xxx|\
      =label2=yyyy|=label3=zzzz

where I will convert two positional fields we already have to
be labeled fields, i.e.,
=bibtitle= for titles in TeX for pracjourn.bib
=asciittitle= for plain titles so html commands in title field don't mess up the sort

and I will add some more such fields, e.g.,
=subtitle= for subtitles, which will go on successive lines in the TOC after the
                    author line if any

and later, as necessary, I can add
=bibauthor= for author in TeX for bibtex entries
=sortauthor= for sorting on author, e.g., in author index

If the main author field is empty so there is no author in the TOC,
=bibauthor= and =sortauthor= can still be used to put something in author fields of
bibtex file, e.g., Editors or Anonymous, or for the author index.

Thus, the Ask Nelly line in the driver file could be, or instance,

piece|Ask Nelly||asknelly|\
      =subtitle=What is ConTeXt?|\
      =subtitle=What is LaTeX3?|\
      =subtitle=Why should a college student use LaTeX?|\
      =subtitle=How do I make temporary margin notes?|\
      =bibauthor=Prac\TeX{} Journal Editors|=sortauthor=The Editors

Finally, a | at the end of a line will have the same effect as |\ at the
end of the line, which may be a little less error prone than always
requiring the \.