i landed at the memory page of sgml pioneer yuri rubinsky (1952-1996) the tribute list is like a "who's who". softquad is gone but its other two founders are still doing their work. david slocombe was last year at the xml conference in barna. his talk had the title there are no unstructured documents. hm. sorry can't really remember. i think i was too occupied by trying to understand mr newcomb. stan bevington is publishing books. someone wrote about him:

Stan Bevington, however, has always been a visionary who combines traditional printing methods with state-of-the-art technology. It is no accident that he has been involved in software development with the Toronto-based company SoftQuad since the 60's. He resurrected the press in 1997 with a new name, Coach House Books, and a new mandate, to publish high quality, limited edition books that were also available free online prior to publication in book form. While a print run for a newly published book might be only 300 copies, the virtual press receives between 4,000 and 8,000 visits per week