*************************************************************** ****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ******************* *************************************************************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * *************************************************************** SGML TUTORIALS FEATURED ======================= The following excerpts come from the 1 May 1993 issue of *Technical Communication.* Contact information for Society for Technical Communications, its publisher, is at the end of this message. "The problem Technology for electronic document processing has whetted our appetites for more and more flexible communication. No longer is it enough to create picture-perfect documents from our very own desktops and to process them using What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) programs. We now want widely dispersed groups to create documents collectively. We want to reuse information, to include parts of old documents created for different purposes and audiences. We want to store our documents in databases, to retrieve from them selectively, and to output them in more than one format, not always limited to print... SGML as a solution Making documents interchangeable so that information creation, management, retrieval, printing, and display functions can be performed using the hardware and software best suited for each task is the rationale beind SGML...." -"Introducing Today's SGML" Elizabeth Gilmore, Passage Systems "This article addresses the key issues in large-scale, one-time conversions of legacy data to SGML, Standard General[ized] Markup Language. It is based on experience in converting databases to SGML as well as to other electronic publishing systems. SGML makes it easier to maintain data and to present it in new ways by providing a methodical and flexible approach to modeling information... This article points out potential pitfalls and suggests an outline for a conversion plan. This plan is particularly important to technical writers, who are often left with the task of cleaning up the mess of a poorly planned conversion as they start revising a manual that's due out next week." -"Getting Your Data in SGML" Mark Gross, Data Conversion Laboratory The last article in this Special Section presents a case history of 5 SGML developers who, at SGML '92, were asked to create different Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for "The New Yorker" magazine. The article ends with a brief dictionary of common SGML terms and concepts. -"SGML and the New Yorker Magazine," Hally Ahearn, Oster & Associates Contact info for this publication: Technical Communication Society for Technical Communications 815 15th Street N.W. Washington, DC 20005 (202) 737-0035 ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 947 Walnut Street * * Boulder, CO 80302 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************