Xref: utzoo comp.text:6515 comp.text.tex:190 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.text.tex Subject: Re: tex and sgml ? Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 90 09:36:02 GMT References: Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 29 In-reply-to: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu's message of 27 Feb 90 23:24:30 GMT >>>>> On 27 Feb 90 23:24:30 GMT, emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) said: > I'm interested in SGML from the perspective of its utility > in representing paper documents, as well as the searching > software (like PAT) that knows how to deal with this text I don't think PAT does anything of the kind, actually, unless you have a radically different version to me. PAT accesses pre-indexed text files very fast, but I see no understanding of SGML tags in there. the fact that it was developed for the sgml'ed OED is beside the point. > structure. Besides, my brain copes better with > this style than it does with \it{this style}, > just the way it works I guess. shame that \it{anything} will not actually work in TeX, isn't it :-} i'd have thought that \begin{it} nnnnnn \end{it} was probably a better notation. but thats just an aside. So far as I am concerned, any attempt to link TeX and SGML too closely would be a bad thing. SGML is designed to express very generalised ideas about the document; one has to get that document printed at some point, and converting it to a typesetting system like TeX is easy and convenient. but sgml should be convertable to *anything* Sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)