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Article #6927Re: SGML: a different kind of markup (Was: Why learn Tex?)
From: Conleth O'Connell
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 21:41
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 1990 21:41
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In article <1990Mar4.045813.14391@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes: >|SGML is not a "markup language" in the same sense as troff and TeX >|are: there is historical justification for the use of the term >|"markup" in SGML, but it *does* cause much confusion. > >Coombs, in his CACM article on markup languages of about two years ago >calls these descriptive markup and procedural markup respectively. > >I wish I had the reference online. I also wish there was a standard for >machine readable references and that journals would use this standard >so that we could run our light pens over the strips and thousands of >readers worldwide would not have to key these in manually. The Coombs reference is: author ="J.H. Coombs and A.H. Renear and S.J. DeRose", title ="Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing", year ="1987", month ="November", journal="Communications of the ACM", volume ="30", number ="11", pages ="933-947", Hope this helps, Con -=- Conleth S. O'Connell Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University cso@cis.ohio-state.edu 2036 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH USA 43210-1277
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!organ.cis.ohio-state.edu!cso From: cso@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu (Conleth O'Connell) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: SGML: a different kind of markup (Was: Why learn Tex?) Keywords: SGML, markup languages, troff, TeX, GenCode, typesetting Message-ID: <77845@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 4 Mar 90 21:41:51 GMT References: <1990Mar3.224625.2621@sq.sq.com> <1990Mar4.045813.14391@cs.rochester.edu> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Conleth O'Connell <cso@cis.ohio-state.edu> Followup-To: comp.text Distribution: comp Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 29