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From: guy@guy.uucp (Guy Streeter)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.iso,comp.protocols.iso.dev-environ
Subject: Re: ODA applications
Keywords: ODA, ODIF, 8613
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Date: 16 Oct 89 15:14:58 GMT
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brian@ditmela.oz (Brian May) writes:
>anyone out there developing/ developed applications for ODA (ie conversion from
>TEX -> ODA -> TEX), or any other WPs or text formatters?

I don't quite see the point.  ODA is not a markup language.  There isn't
necessarily enough information even in the TeX input to make useful ODA
input.  LaTeX source might be translated a little easier.  The type of
information in ODA is "here is a title, here is a chapter header, here
is a paragraph."  The information in TeX and most other WPs is more like
"here put a character in this font, there put a character in that font."
I don't see how you could translate between the two.

Guy Streeter
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