Re: document analysis

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From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1987 16:23

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From: David Boyes <dboyes@uoregon%tektronix.tek.com>
Date: 17 Jun 87 02:51:05 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR

>> Instead of treating a document as a 1-dimensional stream of characters
>> ...  I'd like to see some common general-purpose high-level
>>  'document-programming' language evolving, ...
>
>     There is the ANSI Standardized Generalized Markup Language, which allows
>you to  describe a document in a way which relates to its content rather 

You also might want to check out University of Waterloo's SCRIPT/GML or
IBM DCF/GML implementations. Both are fairly good, if a bit artificial.
The facility that they define could easily be ported to just about any
text formatter -- I'm going to see what can be done with making a
TeX-GML on that basis...someday when I have time...8-).

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