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In article <29321.9009301330@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> S.P.Q.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:

   question: why do SGMLers type their tags in upper case? is it in some
   way suggested by the standards?

I may consider myself an "SGMLer", and I never type my tags in upper
case.  In Burnard's sample, start-tags were in upper-case, end-tags in
lower case.  I found this more confusing than helpful.  Besides, the
use of dots in the tag names did NOT make it very readable.  At one
point, the text violated its own DTD, something like

	<citn.struct>
	<author><CITN.STRUCT>

The use of explicit end-tags where omittable was not consistent, and I
found the entire thing totally useless.  It seems it was not the
product of the TEI, after all, now.  I'm happy to see that.

I frequently distribute text in SGML format when I think the reader
will have any use of the structuring, otherwise, I run the text off
and send an ASCII version or a nicely laid out paper.  Basically,
"have any use of" means being able to process the stuff, index with
it, or gain a better understanding of the contents when read at a
terminal.  Sort of like when it's more important to send information
than representation.

PS: Are S.P.Q.R your real initials?  Any links to the Empire?  :-)

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