From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 14 17:56:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA18428 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 May 1997 17:56:27 -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 RAA18423 for ; Wed, 14 May 1997 17:56:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA26110; Wed, 14 May 1997 19:55:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 19:55:13 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: Terry Lambert cc: Amancio Hasty , 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? In-Reply-To: <199705150040.RAA13777@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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