jonah@csri.toronto.edu (Jeff Lee) (01/27/89)
I am looking for some descriptive information on SGML. In particular, one of the following documents would be most helpful: American national Standars Institute, Information Processing--Text and Office Systems-- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), ISO 8879-1986(E), ANSI, New York, 1986. Association of American Publishers, Standar for Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup, Electronic Manuscript Series, Association of Ammerican Publishres, Washington, D.C., Feb 1986. If you have either of these, or a reasonable substitute, or know where I could find it, please let me know. j.
ludo@sq.uucp (Ludo VanVooren) (01/27/89)
In article <8901262340.AA05602@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> jonah@csri.toronto.edu (Jeff Lee) writes: >I am looking for some descriptive information on SGML. > > .....[Stuff Deleted]....... > >If you have either of these, or a reasonable substitute, or >know where I could find it, please let me know. > I would recommend that you contact the Graphic Communications Association. They are regrouping *all* the publications on SGML. The contact at GCA is : Vivian Sanchez Graphic Communications Association 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 604 Arlington, VA 22209-2085 USA Tel : (703)841-8160 The books that you are looking for are available at GCA or directly from AAP. The address for AAP is : Association of American Publishers 2005 Massachussets Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036 USA Tel : (202)232-3335 Here is some information about these publications. - ISO 8879 Standard Generalized MarkUp Language. (If you don't know SGML, it is very important that you DO NOT start by reading the standard itself. This publication does not provide clear introduction or explanations about SGML. However, it is required if you intend to do any development using SGML.) - Standard for Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup (The AAP standard in detail (i.e. the Document Type Declarations), including a very useful tutorial on SGML, how to read Document Type Declarations, and the explanation of *these* Document Type Declarations in particular. For programmers.) Some other good publications you may be interested in are : - Author's Guide to Electronic Manuscript Preparation and MarkUp (This AAP book is for writers, not programmers: a good example of what exactly a user in a SGML environment has to be told, as distinct from what a programmer maintaining that environment has to know. A more detailed version of this Guide exists: "Reference Manual on Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup".) - SGML: The User's Guide to ISO 8879 (This is an excellent tool if you have to work with the Standard itself. This book contains 8 different index to ISO 8879, as well as a glossary. Knowing that the Standard does NOT have any of that, it makes you win a lot of time when you look for a particular information.) - SGML: An Author's Guide to the SGML (This 352 pages book from Addison Wesley is available in the Bookshops. It is a detailed and practical user's guide to the author using SGML to prepare manuscripts or other documents for output to typesetters or laser printers. No prior knowledge of computing or typography is assumed. It is a suitable text for courses on generic coding and SGML within a printing or publishing course, and will appeal to technical and academic authors, publishers, printers and company in-house users of desktop publishing systems.) I hope this information will be helpfull to you. Ludo. <SIGNATURE>--------------------------------------------------------------------- Ludo Van Vooren email : sq!ludo SoftQuad Inc. 720 Spadina Av. Tel : (416)963-8337 Toronto M5S2T9 --------------------------------------------------------------------</SIGNATURE>