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In article <37239@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu>, bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) writes...
> 
>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
I know that ACS is using SGML to produce Chem. & Eng. News.  A fellow named
Richard Love has given presentations re: SGML at recent ACS meetings.  Their
objective is to use the DTD to convert the text of C&EN to an 
online-searchable version of the journal.  R. Love seems to be a big proponent 
of SGML, and they are promoting it as a std. for submitted MS, so perhaps he 
might have some ideas about DTD's that he would share w/ you.

Sorry, I don't have an address for Love, but believe he is in Wash. D.C. @ 
ACS.