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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: What would it take to implement SGML in TeX?
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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.

Just for fun I implemented (with Nico Poppelier) a simple DTD
in TeX. Not translating: just changing the syntax of TeX
a bit and writing clever macros. Of course it was a *simple* DTD,
but still.

This is not the way to do it, however. TeX being the weird 
programming language it is, you'd better write a translator in
C or Pascal or so.

>---Dan

Victor