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- From: avg@rodan.UU.NET (Vadim Antonov)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
- Subject: Re: Language tagging
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 17:07:30 -0500
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- In article <PREECE.93Jan6092809@predator.urbana.mcd.mot.com> preece@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Scott E. Preece) writes:
- >There is an important additional approach:
- >
- > Text is represented as a sequence of text objects, each of which
- > has its own locale and cultural tagging.
-
- Agreed, though it is a variation of "register switching" approach
- using some control characters. I'd like to see a standard way to
- create balanced-parenthesis textual structures; thouhg it will
- surely be incompatible with most of the modern text processing
- tools.
-
- --vadim
-