Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:55:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970514194942.311y-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199705150040.RAA13777@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 14 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Hypertext Markup Language is a Document Type defined by
> a Simple Graphic Markup Language Document Type Description
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Standard Generalized Markup Language actually. ISO 8879:1986 for
standards buffs. :)
> You could define a DTD for RTF, and edit RTF files.
>
> You could define a DTD for WordPerfect files, and edit WordPerfect
> files.
>
> You could define a DTD for Word for Windows (if you could puzzle out
> the file format), and edit MS Word files.
In practice, you couldn't make a DTD to edit these files in their
native format, but you could write a DTD that faithfully
represents every minute detail such that these formats could be
round-trip converted through SGML without any loss of data or
markup in the process. That is something you cannot say about
using, say, a WordPerfect file in MS Word.
-john
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