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- From: var@bawooner.esd.sgi.com (Victor Riley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.apps
- Subject: Re: Insight....adding your own documents
- Keywords: InSight SGML online documentation
- Message-ID: <uogp2nk@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 18:43:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.200343.20281@texhrc.uucp> <ul4ckqk@zuni.esd.sgi.com> <1993Jan10.215534.7994@bitrot.in-berlin.de>
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- In article <1993Jan10.215534.7994@bitrot.in-berlin.de>,
- thomas@bitrot.in-berlin.de (Thomas Driemeyer) writes:
- |> The format of the SGML documents should be published and accessible
- |> though, so that everyone can add books without having to use external
- |> service bureaus. If the format is closed, Insight might suffer the same
- |> fate as the license server.
-
- As Andrew also said in his followup, SGML is an international standard
- If you would like the SGML standard it is ISO 8879 and can be ordered
- from any member body of the ISO. For a very good reference look at
- "The SGML Handbook" by Charles Goldfarb. Charles was the editor of the
- SGML standard.
-
- Now if you are refering to us publishing our DTD (Document Type Definition)
- then give us a chance. We just released the first version and are already
- working on the second version. We will release the DTD and other tools
- at a later date. For those not familiar with SGML, the DTD defines the
- structure of a document, not the content of the document. Our books are
- instances of our DTD.
-
- |> Wouldn't it be great if everything - third-party software manuals, TeX
- |> manuals, Webster's (I can dream, can I?), even /usr/man, and of course
- |> the jargon file :-) - would be available as InSight books? Let's hope
- |> legal obstacles won't prevent that.
-
- We hope to see alot of 3rd party manuals and man pages and other books
- available within InSight over the next several years.
-
- |> BTW, is there a way to show the pictures directly in the document, the
- |> way NeXT's digital librarian does it, rather than to hide them in an
- |> icon? Optionally, maybe?
-
- Yes, in version 2 of the product.
-
- Victor Riley
- InSight Engineer
-