Thomas Guettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TG> On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:36:45PM +0100, Kai Weber wrote: KW> I just installed the task-sgml package for learning and using sgml. But KW> where do I start? There is no hint from where I should start learning KW> the sgml syntax and so on. TG> TG> Start learning XML, SGML is old and too complex. XML is a standard of TG> the w3c (www.w3c.org)
TeX is also "old and complex", but this doesn't stop lots of people from using it for all sorts of things. For that matter, so is the X Window System. Don't belittle stable, standardized software. One commonly used SGML DTD is the W3C's HyperText Markup Language, HTML. A very rough description of SGML syntax is "things that look sort of like HTML but with different things inside the angle brackets". There are a decent number of things you can do with SGML and the associated tools. I'd recommend looking at DocBook; the O'Reilly book is pretty good here, and gives a decent amount of insight into SGML in general. For something entirely and completely different, you might poke around at the files in http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/resume/, which contain my resume in SGML format with a homegrown DTD and DSSSL style sheet. Quick summary of things you can do, given an SGML document foo.sgml with an associated DSSSL style sheet foo.dsl: SGML->TeX: jade -t tex foo.sgml TeX->DVI: jadetex foo TeX->PDF: pdfjadetex foo SGML->RTF: jade -t rtf foo.sgml SGML to HTML is possible, too, but it generally requires a different style sheet. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell
