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From: pedersen@philmtl.philips.ca (Paul Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: SGML: a different kind of markup
Summary: A standard for layout
Keywords: ODA, SGML
Message-ID: <1098@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 5 Mar 90 12:37:49 GMT
References: <1990Mar3.224625.2621@sq.sq.com>
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. -  St. Laurent  P.Q., Canada
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In article <1990Mar3.224625.2621@sq.sq.com> dns@sq.com (David Slocombe) writes:

> [a lot of stuff deleted..]

>There is, today, *no* standard method for encoding the way things
>are to *look* on the page.  SGML *is* a major achievement, because

> [more stuff deleted..]

I must object. There is such a standard ISO 8613 "Office Document Architecture"
or if you prefer CCITT Rec. T.41x "Open Document Architecture". In this 
standard, both the logical structure and the "layout structure" are part of
the interchanged document, including "styles" for presentation and selection
of layout.

While ODA (currently) cannot handle the complexity of layout hoped for in
DSSSL, it is quite suitable for normal "rectangular" layout.

Paul