Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> writes: > strange. I use software based on standards every day of my life, and I > don't own any of them. how is your copy of ASCII? For the most part I think that it does not make sense for me to rely on a standard that is "owned" because I then have the concern that it could be changed in an unfair way. It's probably reasonable to trust ISO. If you want the SGML standard, a nicely annotated copy of it is in Goldfarb's _SGML Handbook_ and it's probably impractical to think about asking for the creation of a web-served version. (I don't about revisions of the standard in regard to possible revisions of the book.) The book has a readable tutorial. As for the rest it's like the Unix manual. Mostly, it's more than you want to know, but you may want to have it. Its price, as I recall, is roughly the same order of magnitude as the ISO thing. You can survive without it if you go to "comp.text.sgml" and to Robin Cover's web site on SGML. -- Bill