Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:03:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Kevin Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Cc: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu>, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970616125019.16901Q-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970614184130.299A-100000@kevin.sunshine.net>
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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
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