From walt@netcom.com Sat Oct 23 07:33:51 1993 Received: from netcom.netcom.com by dkuug.dk with SMTP id AA18415 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4j for ); Sat, 23 Oct 1993 22:32:11 +0100 Received: by netcom.netcom.com (5.65/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id AA01668; Sat, 23 Oct 93 14:33:51 -0700 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 93 14:33:51 -0700 From: walt@netcom.com (Walt Brainerd) Message-Id: <9310232133.AA01668@netcom.netcom.com> To: SC22WG5@dkuug.dk Subject: ISO 1539 is in Frame format X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 I have converted ISO 1539 to Frame format. I have sent a tape to Kurt and assume it will be available on the server soon. I have not checked the results. I regard that as the job of the X3J3 editorial committee, but I wanted to make it available to everyone as soon as possible. Of course, as you find things wrong, keep a list. Members of the editorial committee: please indicate if you can do some careful proofing before the ABQ meeting and I will divide up the work. Every equation had to be reentered by hand and each table had to be converted individually, although the text was used in most cases. These are places (more) likely to contain errors. Except for the Table of Contents, I have not done the files created "automatically". It is reasonable to create the first part of Annex D and F. The other parts use tools outside of Frame (the Unix tool ptx for Annex E and my own program for the cross reference in Annex D). I just plain goofed when doing the conversion and messed up the markers that produce the index (Annex F). It may be possible to reconstruct it with some effort. I have assumed that these kinds of things can be done more easily when we get the Frame version that deals with SGML (we can go from Frame to SGML, apply some conversion, then back to Frame). I don't have that version, so will wait on these projects until we see where we want to go from here. I have incorporated the modified changes voted this summer by WG5 and sent me by Rich Maine. I am sure there are plenty of mistakes and I am sure they can all be corrected when found. I made the following changes on purpose; they can be changed back if desired, of course. 1. page 154: The "w" in "Iw" has been italicized. 2. I put a period at the end of 13.13.17. 3. I put the entries in Table C.1 in alphabetical order, simply because this saved me a lot of time (I already had a Frame version of the table in that form). I would certainly be happy to give you some more detailed impressions of Frame someday. My basic objection is that it is not "programmable"; many things are "ad hoc"--if there isn't a button to push that does just what you want, it is hard to do it. But it cerainly will produce a good document and allow bigger and better things in the future (such as hypertext links). Let me know if you have questions about what you see.