At 10:06 AM 8/31/99 -0400, William F. Hammond wrote: >Don't you really want an SGML language (formally, "application") that >admits down-translation to LaTeX? There's absolutely no reason why >you cannot have a markup user interface (MUI) for it that has the look >and feel of LaTeX. > >The point is that not only do you get the down-translation for print >in LaTeX but also you can write (in the programming language of your >choice) translators to whatever other formats you wish to reach. (Of >course, very clever things in this direction have been done using TeX, >the program, but I suspect that there is a limit to this approach.) > > -- Bill Maybe Springer is learning from Elsevier Sciences mistakes. They focused on SGML for years --- and look what happened to *their* share prices :0! -- Y&Y, Inc. mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.YandY.com (M)