Received the introduction text from JT, and began figuring out how best to fit it into the structure of the volume. Initially, I discovered that we had some introduction-handling code from ACH which had been commented out, so I uncommented it and marked up the introduction as a <note> in the <notesStmt> part of the header, with id="introduction". This sort of worked (although I had to re-work the margins, because they were set for the columnar layout of ACH).

However, it was unsatisfactory in many ways because it didn't appear in the TOC. So I took another approach: I marked up the introduction as a complete TEI.2 file inside the teiCorpus.2, preceding all the others, and then created a new page flow section for it in the XSLT/FO. It now appears as a sort of mini article, between the Contributors info and the first article. It has a <classCode> value of "editorial", which excludes the author's name from the contributor list (I assume that's what JT would want), and it starts on a recto, and has no page number (so page numbering doesn't start till the third page of the first article, as in all previous issues).

I think this is the best approach, but I'm waiting for JT's approval of these decisions.

We still have to make decisions about the display of the title for the special issue, on the cover and in the front matter.