On 20 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > On 20 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > > > > > Does anyone know of a DFSG-free program that works something like > > > > Adobe PageMaker? > > > > > > > > I'm kind of hoping there aren't any, because I want to write one. :-) > > > > Please, if you do, consider basing your tool on SGML. It would be most > > usefull to see a layout/editor that can work with generic content! > > That's an idea. I'm planning to write it this way: > > 1. Design a script-like language that can be used to fully specify how > an output page should look. This will be the equivalent of TeX for > desktop publishing. This step I am partway through with--but I'm > still seeking ideas.
Hm, something like that is already done. Look at the DSSSL spec, it can completely specifiy the formatting of SGML documents (http://www.sil.org/sgml) > 2. Write a program that translates this output language into > PostScript. This will be, I think, the easiest part of the whole > project--PostScript is well designed for DTP. This isn't done, if you could write a DSSSL engine for postscript you would be worshiped as a god :> Unfortunately the above may not be well suited to an interactive formatting system like pagemaker. But if you could design an interactive DSSSL generator.. Well, lets just say -very cool- :> > Can someone point me to the SGML language specification? I know next > to nothing about SGML.. Strange you should ask, I'm just finishing up a reasearch paper on the subject here is the bibliography: Berners-Lee, T., & Connolly, D. "RFC: 1866 Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0" (Nov/1995) ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1866.txt (19 Nov/1997) Bosak, J., & Connolly, D. "W3C Activity: SGML, XML, and Structured Document Interchange" (10 Jun/1997) http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity.html (19 Nov/1997) Burnard, L. "What is SGML and How Does It Help?" (19 Feb/1996) http://sable.ox.ac.uk/ota/teiedw25/ (19 Nov/1997) Cover, R. "The SGML/XML Web Page." (1 Nov. 1997) http://www.sil.org/sgml (20 Nov/1997) Davenport Group. "The Davenport Group" (13 Nov/1997) http://www.ora.com/davenport/ (20 Nov/1997) Debian Documentation Project. "Debian Documentation Project" (13 Nov/1997) http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-doc/ (19 Nov/1997) Kimber, W. "SGML: SGML and HyTime" (9 Jan/1997) http://www.sil.org/sgml/hytimeKimber9701.html (20 Nov/1997) Naggum, E. "SGML: Erik Naggum's Brief Description" (7 Feb/1995) http://www.sil.org/sgml/naggumWhat.html (19 Nov/1997) SGML Users' Group. "SGML Users' Group History." (11 Jun/1990) http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgmlhist0.html (18 Nov/1997) Schwarz, C. (1995). Linux Journal "Flexible Formatting with Linuxdoc-SGML", July 1995 Issue. Reprint at http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/debian-doc/linuxdoc-sgml.ps (18 Nov/1997) W3 Consortium. "W3C - The World Wide Web Consortium" (10 Nov/1997) http://www.w3.org/ (19 Nov/1997) Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
