On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 17:09:45 GMT Sebastian Rahtz said: >it was a joke. i was simplying that rendering of abstract things like >`quoted text' need not involve quote marks; and that SGML/XML markup >of abstract markup is much easier to parse than TeX.... > The relevant comparison in this case is with _LaTeX markup_ ( TeX could parse SGML/XML as easily as any other program :-) But, of course, LaTeX is more friendly to the user than HTML -- that's the penalty one has to pay ... Peter Peter Schmitt [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Institute of Mathematics Strudlhofgasse 4 University of Vienna A-1090 Wien Austria