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From: sears@sun.uucp (Daniel Sears)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: SGML book
Keywords: Standard Generalized Markup Language
Message-ID: <68471@sun.uucp>
Date: 15 Sep 88 07:11:33 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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Salutations,

Well, it had to happen sometime.  The people who brought you ISO 8879
have come out with a book to help those who found the specification
difficult reading.  It's called "SGML: The User's Guide to ISO 8879"
and is published by John Wiley ($39.95 at Computer Literacy).  Such
a warm, human title.  I particularly like the clever use of the word
"user".  Anyway, the authors are Joan Smith, the president of the SGML
Users' Group and someone named Sculley.  The book is 175 pages long and,
this is the part that just kills me, it has a total of 39 short paragraphs.
The rest is just tables and a mammoth index to, what else, the SGML
specification itself.  To be generous, as I always am in matters concerning
SGML, I included the preface and the bios on the insides of the book cover
in this count.

--Dan
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Daniel Sears                Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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