Hi, Just to confuse the issue: I got message this from Roger Wappling, editor of Physica Scripta, on Aug 1 indicating that they were in the typesetting phase and hoped to get the proceedings out in late 2004. Given the common experience of poor communication with the people in charge, I can certainly believe the 2005 estimate is more realistic. I'm not at all sympathetic to their problem: their job is to publish work in a timely manner, and they have not done this. Communication with the editors has been terrible. I cannot understand why this journal was used instead of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, but I think we should learn from this experience and make sure it does not happen again. Future conference proceedings should be published in an IUCr journal. The IXS charter and by-laws should be changed to state this. Well, that's my opinion anyway. --Matt