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Since SGML tags define only the relationhip of
the different parts of text to each other,
and not the way they will appear, ...
** What a distinction. In my book (and I mean that both
figuratively and literally), the way things appear is
how I express the relationship between them. It includes
not only header-levels but also a certain respect (at least
attempted) for the page as a unit, and an awareness of
the spatial interaction between text and illustrations.
It involves a lot of fudging-- a point less leading here, a
rewritten sentence there-- and many aesthetic value-judgements.
SGML, by preventing the writer from indulging in such fine-tuning,
values industrialization over creativity.
As McLuhan sighed (in Version 3.0 of his slogan):
the medium is the mass age.
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