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>>>>> On 27 Feb 90 23:24:30 GMT, emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) said:
 > I'm interested in SGML from the perspective of its utility
 > in representing paper documents, as well as the searching
 > software (like PAT) that knows how to deal with this text
I don't think PAT does anything of the kind, actually, unless you have
a radically different version to me. PAT accesses pre-indexed
text files very fast, but I see no understanding of SGML tags in
there. the fact that it was developed for the sgml'ed OED is beside the point.

 > structure.  Besides, my brain copes better with <italic>
 > this style </italic> than it does with \it{this style},
 > just the way it works I guess.
shame that \it{anything} will not actually work in TeX, isn't it :-}

i'd have thought that \begin{it}   nnnnnn \end{it} was probably a
better notation. but thats just an aside.

So far as I am concerned, any attempt to link TeX and SGML too closely
would be a bad thing. SGML is designed to express very generalised
ideas about the document; one has to get that document printed at some
point, and converting it to a typesetting system like TeX is easy and
convenient. but sgml should be convertable to *anything*

Sebastian

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