Xref: utzoo comp.text.sgml:106 comp.text.tex:3263 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!jarthur!frigga.claremont.edu From: dhosek@frigga.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: What would it take to implement SGML in TeX? Message-ID: <8935@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 8 Oct 90 18:31:03 GMT References: <1990Sep24.174222.22487@terminator.cc.umich.edu> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@frigga.claremont.edu Followup-To: comp.text.sgml Organization: Quixote Lines: 19 In article <3745:Oct805:47:1890@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>, brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes... >Shouldn't it be possible to implement SGML in TeX? Among other things, >this would give SGML an opportunity for wide use---which it doesn't >really deserve, but that's a side issue. Oh sure. TeX is Turing-complete. It's possible to implement _anything_ in TeX (ask Andrew Marc Greene ;-). Whether it would be practical is a whole other issue. The general approach taken is to run an SGML parser which translates the markup into TeX commands. -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info