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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: need descriptions
Keywords: sqml cal
Message-ID: <1988Nov16.234857.2372@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 88 04:48:57 GMT
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|There is an ISO standard SGML (Standard Graphics Markup Language) which
|isn't exactly a printer description level, but a metalanguage in which
|one can describe many different kinds of output languages.  You can buy
|SGML from ANSI in New York.

Er, isn't this Standard Generalized Markup Language? As I understand,
it is a system for defining conventions to be used for the transmission
of marked-up documents. For instance, a tag like <q> can be defined to
mean "start of quoted text". It is not a typesetting language. A SGML
document can be turned into formatter input via a translator. SGML
definitions are intended to be at a higher level of abstraction than
formatter directives.

I shouldn't say more because I'm not an expert. The experts are on
comp.text.