Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Path: utzoo!sq!lee
From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
Subject: Re: PS editor (mine)
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.025314.12511@sq.sq.com>
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
References: <1991May30.160658.18845@cs.mcgill.ca> <KENW.91Jun2084455@skyler.arc.ab.ca>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 02:53:14 GMT
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kenw@skyler.arc.ab.ca (Ken Wallewein) writes:
>  I've no idea whether your quest is difficult.  However, there was a
>column in a recent Macintosh magazine claiming that "editable PostScript"
>should -- and probably would -- become the standard interchange language of
>complex documents.  I thought it made sense.

It makes little or no sense at all to me!  Were they serious?

A PostScript document doesn't mark a heading, or distinguish between uses
of an italic font (keywords and emphasis, for example).  There's little
point in transmitting formatting information in most cases, but the
structural information is entirely lost.

Yes, you could define a new commenting convention to retain some of the
structure.

But what about ODA?  What about SGML?  Document interchange is the _purpose_
of SGML!

Liam


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