Subject: RE: The DSSSList Digest V3 #50 From: MARK.WROTH@xxxxxxxxxxx (Wroth, Mark) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 13:41:48 -0700 |
I have two comments with regard to the various messages that concatenated into V3 #50. First, I for one would like to see OpenJade (or whatever it winds up named) continue to support SGML rather than migrate to XML only. This is selfish in that *I* use Jade on a document processing suite which can't be directly re-implemented in XML AFAIK (variant concrete syntax such that {a'} is a legal entity reference). It's also based on the observation that there look to be lots of XML processors at some point in the not too distant future; while supporting XML in OpenJade makes a lot of sense it would seem to be chasing a "market" that has many competitors. Secondly, the proposal to implement a not-so-simple-page-sequence makes a lot of sense to me. TeX in particular is capable of *much* more than simple-page-sequence (I'm still not persuaded that it can't do the whole page-sequence, although that may be a theoretical rather than a practical discussion --- I'm certainly not volunteering to write a general implementation). Perhaps an approach might be to have a TeX backend which emits macros which then require individual definition? I'd find that approach useful (but then, I know more about TeX than I do about DSSSL :-). Finally, I'd like to thank James for both his thoughtful (and thought-provoking) reply, and for a very useful tool as it stands. Mark DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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