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|Thu 28.11.96, Richard Cognot <cognot@ensg.u-nancy.fr>

[portability of Tex and SGML]

If I sounded like resisting the TeX, that's not what I intended.
I don't know it, so I can't judge it well, but after reading as an
outsider, about the SGML and it's potential, I have got a
strong impression that at least one should serously
consider if it's better alternative.

|
|     Jari> The SGML is becomming an enterprise/company standard in
|     Jari> documentation and the Emacs should also keep in the nerve of
|     Jari> the time.
|
| That may be the case, although I have yet to see any of  our
| industrial contacts use it (most of them either use M$ products
| or... TeX/LaTeX...).

Yes, that's propably true now. Buet we can seek alternatives if
they give more promises in the long term: there already is
SGML grep programs etc, is there similar tools for TeX derivates that
don't require emacs?

| Needless to say I don't agree there. I have not encountered yet a
| "killer-functionnality" that would make me change from my "old" TeX
| system.

The SGML promises a lot, and it's highly driven by ISO standardisation
organization and even w3C has expressed that SGML is the most
thrilled standard where they're heading. The SGML is now propably
the most supported standadrd in the world among ISO.

All those are quotes from the SGML home pages I posted some time ago.
I don't think we can say same about any other text system.

| No flames intended though.

yup, I didn't take it that way.

| The fact is if that you need SGML
| documents, it is always possible to use an *existing* filter to create
| them from texinfo. Now if you volunteer to write the SGML2texinfo or,
| even better from my pov, SGML2LaTeX filter, then OK, that would suit
| me. ;-)

That's my point. There already is such filters.
see the pointer:

    http://www.sil.org/sgml/publicSW.html

   * format: Thomas Gordon's QWERTZ SGML -> LaTeX formatting package
   * SGML2TeX - SGML-to-TeX converter
   * tei2latex - TEILITE to LaTeX2e

and I suspect more is to come. As I'm new to SGML I'm not
capable of writing such DTD's. Tomohiko seems to be quite familiar
with SGML.

/jari

