Re: Lout and SGML

[Dr. Thomas F. Gordon]

I have written a SGML to Lout translator in Scheme, for the ISO 12083
"standard" document types (books and articles).  I've used it for
a book I've written, but it is not quite finished yet.  Watch comp.text.sgml
for an announcement, but I can't promise when I will find the time
to package this up for public release.

Tom Gordon


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>I'm interested about Lout used in SGML processing (actually formatting
>SGML documents). (Standard Generalized Markup Language is an ISO8879
>standard about logical document markup -see comp.text.sgml newsgroup).
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>So far I know about Typeset, by  address@hidden
>(Joerg Wittenberger) and Linux-SGML. Both are using lout as a backend.
>Are there any other people doing the same?
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>As a long term wish, I wish that Lout could accept SGML. Perhaps this
>can be done by reading the output from an SGML parser such as nsgmls
>(ftp.jclark.com:/pub/sp/). Since SGML is an ISO standard which is well
>established and quite used by now, I believe that such a feature would
>establish lout as a text formatter (and with such a feature Lout would
>have a definite and immediate advatange over groff or LaTeX).
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