From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 16 11:03:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA19644 for chat-outgoing; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA19632 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA23621; Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:03:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:03:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Kevin Eliuk cc: Joel Ray Holveck , msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Kevin Eliuk wrote: > BTW do you have any suggestions on the better resources to learn SGML? http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html The first couple headings on the page have pointers many good on-line introductions and tutorials. On my bookshelf, the most heavily used SGML item is "Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup" by Eve Maler and Jeanne el Andaloussi. Next would be Goldfarb's "SGML Handbook" but with Maler's book, I only refer to Goldfarb for more esoteric things. The trouble with a lot of writing on SGML is that SGML is treated in isolation, or when treated in the context of an application, the treatment is at the "executive" level rather than a user or implementor level. SGML does not stand on its own--it is a standard aimed at making other tools more powerful by standardizing data and markup representation, so treating it in isolation leaves a lot of people with a feeling of "okay, now what?" -john