> John Palmer ([log in to unmask]) writes:
>
> > [1] in the short and medium term it is easier to get authors to write
> > LaTeX than to write SGML;
>
> and about a million times easier again to get them to write in Word,
> as 99% of them probably do :-}
>
> > and [2] if SGML is ever to have the
> > acceptability with authors that LaTeX already has
>
> authors in an extremely limited environment
It is possible to fool ourselves into thinking that we are writing
LaTeX when we are really writing SGML.
The notion of "document class" that J\"org proposes could be essentially
an SGML language (formally "application") disguised as LaTeX. (But I
do not know if that is what he has in mind.)
> > publishers will
> > need to agree on a common DTD;
> Docbook and TEI not good enough?
Is the dockbook model for "author" adequate? Some things like this
may be both more and less than what we would want.