From LJM@SLACVM.BITNET Sat Aug 29 03:32:07 1992 Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA16462; Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:32:07 +0200 Message-Id: <9208290132.AA16462@dkuug.dk> Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by vm.uni-c.dk (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 4632; Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:32:22 DNT Received: from SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU by vm.uni-c.dk (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 7079; Sat, 29 Aug 92 03:32:21 DNT Received: by SLACVM (Mailer R2.08 R208004) id 1353; Fri, 28 Aug 92 18:30:54 PST Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 17:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Len Moss" To: "SC22/WG5 Mailing List" Subject: Re: (SC22WG5.193) document processing X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 In-Reply-To: buckley@agb.RoyalRoads.ca -- 08/28/92 17:34 For the most part, I endorse Bert's list of requirements (though I don't entirely agree with his conclusions, since I'd put SGML ahead of LaTeX). However, I think there's another, hidden requirement implicit in his "invariability" requirement with which I do not agree. He mentions a sort of prerequisite that there should only be one "master" document which is maintained by a single individual or a small editing group. This I certainly agree with. However, he seems to also imply that only a single view of this master document will be made available electronically. I see no need for such a requirement, and in fact I doubt if the other requirements can be truly satisfied with a single view. I think a solution will inevitably involve at least two different views: an image of the master in its "native" format (e.g., a binary Frame or Word file, ascii with embedded SGML or LaTeX markup, etc.), and a universally-printable (and almost universally-viewable) format, i.e., PostScript. Additional views may also be desirable: a straight ascii version, the extracted syntax, a KWIC index of some sort, etc. I would expect that these views would be generated automatically from the native master, either by the editor or by others who happen to have the appropriate tools. As I said in an earlier posting, I'd want to have a good way to correlate at least some of these views, but I don't think the correlation has to be based on page and line breaks (which are notoriously difficult to preserve when shipping documents around between different processors, or even the same processor at different sites). -- Leonard J. Moss | My views don't necessarily Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, MS 97 | reflect those of SLAC, Stanford, CA 94309 | Stanford or the DOE