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- From: drraymon@daisy.waterloo.edu (Darrell Raymond)
- Subject: Re: Markup
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:41:05 GMT
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- When I gave the example:
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- >now is the time <use-troff-not-SGML> for all good men
-
- Eliot said:
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- >The element <use-troff-not-SGML> is not a valid SGML tag
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- Which may be true, but is irrelevant. I was presenting an example
- to illustrate a general definition of markup, not one limited to
- descriptive markup or SGML markup.
-
- >That Darrell used this example suggests that he has made the
- >common confusion of SGML with procedural formatting languages
- >like TROFF and DCF/Script.
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- I don't suffer from this confusion. However, even if I did, it's
- not important, since the example was intended to illustrate a definition
- of markup that includes both descriptive and procedural forms.
-
- -Darrell.
-