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From: fwl@aber.ac.uk (FREDERICK  LONG)
Subject: Re: AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding
Date: 1999/03/25
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Date: 1999-03-25T00:00:00+00:00
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"Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com> writes:
> However, there is, now more than ever, a need for a truly standard
> 'enhanced' document format, that would provide for the standard encoding of
> a document's 'logical' structure (paragraphs, headings, list items,
> (floating) table rows and columns, etc.).  

SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986).

> I think it would be incumbent on such a standard to have a reasonably
> efficient coding (for typical use), and I reckon it should be based on
> Unicode or ISO 10646 (regardless of actual character encoding).  It could
> take the opportunity to clear up the ambiguity surrounding the use of CR and
> LF (and SUB at the end), 

SGML (actually, SGML just depends on ISO 646).

> and redefine a lot of presently useless or
> ambiguous control characters (BS, HT, LF, VT, FF, CR, ESC, DEL, and maybe
> others) for useful purposes.

SGML.

I've said it three times, so it must be true.  :-)

(Sorry to c.l.a people, this has very little to do with Ada.)
[moderator note: it's also oblique to comp.programming.literate,
 but I've set follow-ups to go there]

	Fred Long.

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Dr Fred Long,                           Email: fwl@aber.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science,         Tel: +44 1970 622440
University of Wales, Penglais,          Fax: +44 1970 622455
Aberystwyth, SY23 3DB, UK.