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Subject:SGML - Tell me about it. From:Thomas Krueger <tjk -at- CSD4 -dot- CSD -dot- UWM -dot- EDU> Date:Thu, 23 Sep 1993 18:12:33 GMT
I would like some information about this new wunderkind, SGML. In the STC
Journal, there were a lot of articles on it, and some sample code. I was
shocked, amazed, incredulous to find so many articles commenting on how new
and exciting and wonderful this thing is... when all it is, as far as I can
tell, is a rehash of roff and LaTeX, in various ways. Does anyone have
experience with it, and with roff or LaTeX, and can tell me if that's so?
Here I am, fresh out of college, looking diligently for my first writing
job, and I want to make sure I have the skills I need. So, If you could,
please tell me:
* What documentation exists for SGML?
* What does it currently run on?
* Who is currently supporting it?
* Why did all those writers in the Journal wax so enthusiastically about
it when people have been formatting their text in that general method
since the mid-70s? (roff is from circa 1977, I believe.)
Advice, of course, is welcome.
- Tom
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Thomas Krueger UW-Milwaukee Engineering Electronics Shop
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