[comp.text.tex] SGML and TeX

eanv20@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Woods) (11/21/90)

Hmmm. Sorry to be jumping on bandwagons right here, but I've recently
been hearing a lot about SGML (The Standard Generalized Mark-up
Language). Apparently this new standard allows style independent
description of documents, which can then be marked up by any typesetting
package. Is there any possibility that TeX implementations to deal with
SGML documents will be forthcoming?


                                        ...John

A4422DAE@AWIUNI11.BITNET (Konrad Neuwirth) (11/26/90)

I know of one SGML to LaTeX interface, and that comes with
$^mu$^TeX{} by ArborText. They include one program with their
product that does that interfacing and it even comes with
documentation, but for reasonable SGML editing you should use
an editor that helps you with SGML (or so I was told once).
Anyway, I do not know how complete that program is, what features
it does (not) support and so on . . . it's just that I've found
that program on our evaluation copy. Hope this helps.

//konrad

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