From: tim@michelob.wustl.edu (Tim Rand) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: Mark-It Parser Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 20:43:23 -0600 Organization: St. Louis Unix Users Group Message-ID: \ References: <4d3ioa$7g$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com> In article <4d3ioa$7g$1@mhafc.production.compuserve.com>, Raymond H. Stachowiak <74453.1747@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >I think this was answered some time ago, but I need the info now. >Does anyone know who if the Mark-it parser is being supported, >what rev/release its at, who to contact, and if it is being >marketed in the US (if so, contact info). Ray, Markit is supported by SEMA in Belgium: >Jacques Deseyne \ >SGML Product Manager > > SEMA Group Belgium > Stallestraat 96 > B-1180 Brussels > > Tel. +{32}2 333 53 24 > Fax. +{32}2 333 53 22 > > info-markit@sema.be > support-markit@sema.be > info-sgml@sema.be I am not aware that they have a US Distributor or support at this time. Jacques also has written me: >We are going to announce version 2.4 of Mark-It at the Boston SGML '95 >Conference. >Mark-It is available in the following packages : > > * PC/DOS/Windows package (a DOS, extended DOS and a Windows version of >Mark-It > [executable version] and Write-It) > * Packages with Mark-It [executable version] and Write-It for Unix >workstations > (Sun/SunOS or Solaris, HP-UX, IBM RS-6000, DEC Alpha/Digital Unix, SCO >Unix, > DG Aviion, Linux, ...) > * Mark-It [executable version] for Vax/VMS and Siemens BS2000 > > * Mark-It static library for Unix workstations > * Mark-It static library for DOS > * Mark-It Dynamic Link Library (DLL) for Windows 3.x, Win '95 and Win NT I hope this helps. Tim -- Tim Rand \ Checked regularly All messages will get a response. No black holes here! From: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Charles B. Robey) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: Docbook-2.3, psgml, and external modules Date: 14 Jan 1996 02:22:17 GMT Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park, MD Message-ID: <4d9pcp$5u5@mojo.eng.umd.edu> I am trying to get a psgml environment going for the docbook. I have the 2.3 version, and I installed psgml. The sgml mode seems to come up, but emacs seems to refuse to parse the example docs, because a large list of external entities are missing. These aren't character entities, they are the modules that are listed in the dbpool.mod, like author.module. Am I doing something wrong here, or is part of the docbook missing in my installation of it? -- ============================================================================ Chuck Robey chuckr@eng.umd.edu -- I run FreeBSD on n3lxx and Journey2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Dilbert Zone is Dilbert's new WWW home! The area features never-before-seen original sketches of Dilbert, a photo tour of Scott Adams' studio, Dilbert Trivia and memorabilia, high school photos and much more!: \ From: b35mtv@nontri.ku.ac.th (Montri Viroontanavong) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: What is NOTATION in SGML? Date: 14 Jan 1996 04:20:42 GMT Organization: Kasetsart University InterNetNews Site Message-ID: <4da0aq$ds7@mis.cpc.ku.ac.th> From: b35mtv@nontri.ku.ac.th (Montri Viroontanavong) Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml Subject: What is NOTATION in SGML? Date: 14 Jan 1996 04:21:21 GMT Organization: Kasetsart University InterNetNews Site Message-ID: <4da0c1$ds7@mis.cpc.ku.ac.th> What is NOTATION in SGML? From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html,comp.text.sgml Subject: Re: Building consensus on HTML??? Date: 14 Jan 1996 11:33:56 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800 Message-ID: <4dbeq4$c42@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <4d5r04$e98@Venus.mcs.com> In article <4d5r04$e98@Venus.mcs.com>, Jorn Barger \ wrote: > >I've only just returned to this group (comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html) >after some months' absence... but it sure seems like there's a >serious failure-to-communicate, here! > >Probably the reason for this is that HTML was thrown together as a >simple *usable* hack for handling an unbelievably complex problem-- a >problem so complex *nobody* really has the answers, yet, by a long >shot... > >And that complex problem, expressed simplistically, is: > > How do we enable the nicest possible display of documents, > in a world where a huge range of display devices are in use? . . . >So what's really needed. I think, is a list of tags, starting with the >simplest and working towards the most obscure, with an explanation, >for each, of its unexpected behaviors in various browsers, and how >best to work around them... even if this involves the dreaded >Netscapism. > >And it's just not acceptable to ignore designers' practical needs, in >this regard, trying to impose a 'what-you-oughta-do' standard that >doesn't result in ***the nicest possible esthetics for the most >possible viewers***. . . . That's one possible dimension of an answer. I've got another. This is a bit surprising, as my temperament inclines toward fault-finding, but I see this as one question that has a good (partial) answer, at least for the practice of individuals and their organizations. The answer is SGML (see \, which I haven't updated yet, but am likely to do within the week). What folks should do is author in SGML, making full use of the latter's ability to structure content and presentation aspects, and then use any of the proven, available technologies to render SGML (before or during HTTP service, or even on the client-side). This does not *solve* the problem, but it decouples HTML presentation issues from the concerns of an author, liberates authors to make best use of their efforts, and encourages the kind of free experimentation that will be ne- cessary before we can agree on what's to become of HTML. This reads like propaganda from an SGML vendor. I am laughably far from having a financial stake in any of them; I just think there's a right way to see this issue, and it happens to be close to theirs. -- Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird@NeoSoft.com +1 713 623 8000 #227 +1 713 996 8546 FAX Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.text.tex,comp.text.sgml,comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html From: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) Subject: Re: WYSIWYG Math and Latex (was MATH and SGML) Message-ID: <1996Jan14.192722.17922@sq.com> Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada References: <820460899snz@sciword.demon.co.uk> <4caljf$f3r@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4cc6m1$l8o@news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 19:27:22 GMT Jens Pfeiffer \ wrote: > Why the hell do people always start advertising!?!? No need to swear. > I'd really appreciate if you had something reasonable to say to this thread, > but please stop silly postings! I think that if you looked at the URL that was given (http://www.ktalk.com/), you'd see why it was relevant. A Windows front end to TeX, and software tht lets you use TeX mathematics together with Microsoft Word and/or Word Perfect is something people were asking about. (I'm not sure it's particularly relevant to SGML, but I see that at least part of this thread is cross-posted to other groups than comp.text.sgml.) Lee -- Liam Quin, SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801 lee@sq.com \ HexSweeper NeWS game;OPEN LOOK+XView+mf-fonts FAQs;lq-text unix text retrieval