Re: What would it take to implement SGML in TeX?

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From: Hosek, Donald A.
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 1990 18:31

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In article <3745:Oct805:47:1890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes...
>Shouldn't it be possible to implement SGML in TeX? Among other things,
>this would give SGML an opportunity for wide use---which it doesn't
>really deserve, but that's a side issue.

Oh sure. TeX is Turing-complete. It's possible to implement
_anything_ in TeX (ask Andrew Marc Greene ;-). Whether it would
be practical is a whole other issue. The general approach taken
is to run an SGML parser which translates the markup into TeX
commands.

-dh

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