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bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) wrote:
> Do publishing houses (the kind that generate paper output :-) use SGML
> yet?  Obviously they're going to use some kind of markup language when
> they put the document into production.  Is it likely to be SGML?  Will
> it ever be?  Can you ask a publisher for their book/journal/whatever
> DTD in order to write your document using it?

My guess: NO.

Source for guess: The most recent issue of MicroTimes (a free biweekly
newspaper focussed on the computer industry and available (only?) in
Silicon Valley) has a longish interview with (name?) Seybold.  It's
an interesting interview with lots of interesting things said, but 
there are two telling points:

	1. The paper pushers do not see how they can sell a purely
	   electronic version of a book.  That is, they see their job
	   primarily as pushing paper, not pushing information.

	2. The publishing houses are (*STILL*!) generally using
	   proprietary document systems.

He said there were exceptions to both, fortunately ..


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