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Greg Noel Date: Thu Jul 1, 1999 3:06 am Subject: Re: Typing Left-Handed SignWriting | ||||||||||||
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Trevor Jenkins wrote: >Just a quick correction to Greg's otherwise excellent discussion of Unicode >and SGML. My correction is "SGML is about structure, not about display". >Whilst that may a subtle distinction it is very important. This is a good point. I don't know that 'structure' is quite the right word, but it's much closer to the spirit. ('Control' and 'discipline' are other words that occur to me, but they're not right, either. I'm reminded of _chi_, the Oriental center-of-balance, which combines structure, control, discipline, speed, and balance. Good XML is like that.) I originally had a paragraph that babbled about decomposing content into a parse tree and binding nodes to concrete expressions, trying to get to this point. (Yeah, I have a degree in Mathematics. How did you guess?) It didn't make sense, even to me, so I replaced it with the typesetting example. Hopefully, some of the flavor got across. Hope this helps, -- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru | ||||||||||||
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