stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson) (08/04/90)
All this talk about SGML has piqued my curiousity. I would like to see a 20 line hunk of an SGML document. It would also help if an equivalent section of a troff or LaTeX document were included. If the SGML tags were commented, that would help, too. The top of a UN*X man page would be a good candidate, I suppose. Curiously, -Steve
emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (08/09/90)
In article <14468@oolong.la.locus.com> stevea@locus.com (Steve Anderson) writes:
All this talk about SGML has piqued my curiousity. I would like to
see a 20 line hunk of an SGML document. It would also help if an
equivalent section of a troff or LaTeX document were included.
If the SGML tags were commented, that would help, too.
If you can FTP to sgml.math.lsa.umich.edu, I have two sample
documents, both listing what's available in the Oxford Text Archives.
Get /pub/sgml/otalist-format and /pub/sgml/otalist-sgml and see the
differences.
You can get either of these from LISTSERV@BROWNVM, say "SEND OTALIST SGML"
or "SEND OTALIST FORMAT". I don't have any reasonable hope of keeping
these two up to date, so consider them as sample.
The top of a UN*X man page would be a good candidate, I suppose.
One of the constraints for doing a man page with SGML markup is that
it would have to be sufficiently restrained to allow it to produce the
necessary 'nroff -man' output. Looking at my BSD man pages, they were
quite regular, so it looked doable. I don't know if any Unix vendors
(HP?) are keeping their man pages in some other more abstract format, or
whether there's a designated troff hacker to make sure they all go right.
Curiously,
-Steve
--Ed
Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept <emv@math.lsa.umich.edu>
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