John passed the editorship to me in 1988, along with the documents and the Basic program. I didn't have access to a machine with intelligent Basic, so re-wrote the program in SNOBOL (I'm just telling you what happened here, not claiming that it all makes sense - each decision step was probably reasonable at the time :-). The SNOBOL program then gradually got more sophisticated - it handled the numbering of the clauses and sub-clauses (always a nightmare with the ISO house-rules, though JTM follows a rule that was changed soon afterwards) and conversion of the cross-references from a symbolic form to numbers (so I could write things like (See <REF REFID=HOLDPROC>), but it printed as (See 2.3.2). After the first edtion had been sent for publication (in 1989), the remaining work was the amendment to the protocol standard to cover the Full Protocol. This had to be ballotted as a document of editing instructions but to be comprehensible, it also needed to be circulated as a change-marked text. I mangled the SGML (which had no direct relation to the ISO standards DTD by now), to handle this, and with the SNOBOL program and quite a lot of fiddling with Ventura settings, was able to produce the old text, the editing instruction form, the change-marked text or a clean merged text all from the same source file. (It got even more complicated when there were corrigenda involved as well as the amendments)
This arrangement was used for the publication of the second edition of JTM in 1992. (I was also using the SGML/SNOBOL/Ventura setup for the CCR standard but eventually gave it up and converted to Word)
The diagrams in the original standard were GEM files (I've forgotten what the application was called that wrote these - Gem, I think). Fortunately, CorelDraw can read these, and the only thing it loses are the arrow-heads. Although they are all line-drawings, I have written them out as gifs, to maximise the chance of readability. Some of them are rather large on the screen, but since they are all just black-and-white, they don't come out as very large files.
Then just a few extra things - linking buttons to chain through the sections, tables of contents, and the explanation of what JTM was, and here you are.
I wondered whether to make each document all one file, or split them up more. As it is, they are just the files as they were 10 years ago - split mostly for size, I think (remember, this was started on an IBM PC/XT - the SNOBOL program was developed on a 286).
So you can now go