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From: cso@organ.cis.ohio-state.edu (Conleth O'Connell)
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Subject: Re: SGML: a different kind of markup (Was: Why learn Tex?)
Keywords: SGML, markup languages, troff, TeX, GenCode, typesetting
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Date: 4 Mar 90 21:41:51 GMT
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In article <1990Mar4.045813.14391@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>|SGML is not a "markup language" in the same sense as troff and TeX
>|are:  there is historical justification for the use of the term
>|"markup" in SGML, but it *does* cause much confusion.
>
>Coombs, in his CACM article on markup languages of about two years ago
>calls these descriptive markup and procedural markup respectively.
>
>I wish I had the reference online. I also wish there was a standard for
>machine readable references and that journals would use this standard
>so that we could run our light pens over the strips and thousands of
>readers worldwide would not have to key these in manually.

The Coombs reference is:
   author ="J.H. Coombs and A.H. Renear and S.J. DeRose",
   title  ="Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing",
   year   ="1987",
   month  ="November",
   journal="Communications of the ACM",
   volume ="30",
   number ="11",
   pages  ="933-947",

Hope this helps,
Con
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