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Article #403desktop publishing vs. the old fashioned way
From: David E. Bernholdt
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 00:15
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1992 00:15
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This may sound a little funny, but it is not meant as a rhetorical question... Most of the talk on this group is about SGML for desktop publishing, online retrieval/searching of documents, etc. -- the common theme being electronic. 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? This is analagous to the recurring question on TeX newsgroups/mailing lists -- which publishers/journals/etc. will accept a TeX document? If the answer is that there _are_ publishers using SGML, then I wonder what their DTDs are like. Have they all adopted (say) the AAP stuff, or (like in the TeX world) does everyone have their own? Obviously it should be easier to standardize DTDs than TeX macro packages. You can stop laughing now, I'm done :-) -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365
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