jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg) (06/13/91)
Hello, As part of a standardization effort for a kind of multimedia e-mail capability, we are interested in finding an already-existing SGML application that allows the specification of multi-font structured text. In other words, we would love to find an application that allows the specification of plain text, with the ability to specify some simple formatting things like font characteristics (e.g., fixed/variable width, size), line formatting (fill/no fill, centering, left/right flush). Ideally, documents using the application would be very simple to parse & process: i.e., use the reference concrete syntax only (or is the core syntax even simpler?) & not require any complicated processing to determine the style at a point in the document (no complicated styule sheet inheritance, e.g.). Any one know of any appropriate applications? Jonathan Rosenberg
thomas@gmdzi.gmd.de (Thomas Gordon) (06/14/91)
From article <442@salt.bellcore.com>, by jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg): > capability, we are interested in finding an already-existing SGML > application that allows the specification of multi-font structured text. > > Ideally, documents using the application would be very simple to parse & > process: i.e., use the reference concrete syntax only (or is the core > syntax even simpler?) & not require any complicated processing to > Well, I don't know whether it as simple as you would like, but we've reconstructed most of LaTeX using SGML, and then use the Amsterdam SGML parser to map documents back into LaTeX for printing. This gives us complete compatibility with the de facto standard in our field, LaTeX, while allowing us to use SGML tools, such as Author/Editor, to prepare documents. LaTeX, and our SGML reconstruction of it, include a "letter" document type which may be suitable for your purposes. Let me know if your interested in more information. Thomas F. Gordon email: thomas@gmdzi.gmd.de GMD / F3 phone: (+49 2241) 14-2665 Schloss Birlinghoven D-5205 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG