Newsgroups: comp.text Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Subject: Re: Curious about SGML In-Reply-To: stevea@locus.com's message of 4 Aug 90 00:53:29 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. References: <14468@oolong.la.locus.com> Date: 9 Aug 90 14:14:33 Lines: 34 In article <14468@oolong.la.locus.com> stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson) writes: All this talk about SGML has piqued my curiousity. I would like to see a 20 line hunk of an SGML document. It would also help if an equivalent section of a troff or LaTeX document were included. If the SGML tags were commented, that would help, too. If you can FTP to sgml.math.lsa.umich.edu, I have two sample documents, both listing what's available in the Oxford Text Archives. Get /pub/sgml/otalist-format and /pub/sgml/otalist-sgml and see the differences. You can get either of these from LISTSERV@BROWNVM, say "SEND OTALIST SGML" or "SEND OTALIST FORMAT". I don't have any reasonable hope of keeping these two up to date, so consider them as sample. The top of a UN*X man page would be a good candidate, I suppose. One of the constraints for doing a man page with SGML markup is that it would have to be sufficiently restrained to allow it to produce the necessary 'nroff -man' output. Looking at my BSD man pages, they were quite regular, so it looked doable. I don't know if any Unix vendors (HP?) are keeping their man pages in some other more abstract format, or whether there's a designated troff hacker to make sure they all go right. Curiously, -Steve --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept comp.text.sgml ISO 8879 SGML, structured documents, markup languages yes votes to sgml-yes@math.lsa.umich.edu no votes to sgml-no@math.lsa.umich.edu