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From: thomas@gmdzi.gmd.de (Thomas Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml
Subject: Re: Looking for Simple Application
Message-ID: <4923@gmdzi.gmd.de>
Date: 14 Jun 91 14:37:15 GMT
References: <442@salt.bellcore.com>
Organization: GMD, St. Augustin, F.R. Germany
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From article <442@salt.bellcore.com>, by jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg):

> capability, we are interested in finding an already-existing SGML
> application that allows the specification of multi-font structured text.
> 
> Ideally, documents using the application would be very simple to parse &
> process: i.e., use the reference concrete syntax only (or is the core
> syntax even simpler?) & not require any complicated processing to
> 	

Well, I don't know whether it as simple as you would like, but we've
reconstructed most of LaTeX using SGML, and then use the Amsterdam
SGML parser to map documents back into LaTeX for printing.  This gives
us complete compatibility with the de facto standard in our field,
LaTeX, while allowing us to use SGML tools, such as Author/Editor, to
prepare documents.

LaTeX, and our SGML reconstruction of it, include a "letter" document
type which may be suitable for your purposes.  Let me know if your
interested in more information.

Thomas F. Gordon                    email: thomas@gmdzi.gmd.de
GMD / F3	                    phone: (+49 2241) 14-2665
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG