This paper is the later elaboration of a talk given at a
Conference on Editorial Problems in Toronto in 1997 under the
title “Why you should not teach your edition how to
swim”. A volume of conference proceedings was planned, for
which this written form of the material was prepared. It seems
unlikely now that that volume will ever appear, so I am making
this paper visible on the Web.
New Mexico, <date>20 March 2008</date>