Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

Peter Brown wrote:

> Maybe the guys (I do mean guys) who used to punch paper tape had it right in
> the first place. It won't be news to many on this list, but the whole idea
> of embedded codes goes back substantially before XyWrite (or ATEX). I
> remember entering "bell" codes on paper tape to drive an electromechanical
> phototypesetter during the night shift at a photocomposition job shop; the
> code to "turn off" earlier formatting and go back to the original default
> was "bell X", if memory serves. It wouldn't surprise me to learn the same
> ideas were used to format in teletyping and hot metal composition.
>

Hah and hah! My XyWrite stylesheet has code SSX/USX for, you guessed it, turn
off earlier formatting and go back to the original default. (SSX, md=nm,ip=5,0).

>
> In that context it's certainly amusing to hear HTML described as the latest
> new thing.
>

Described thus only by those who actually call lower Broadway "Silicon Alley."

>
> Peter Brown
>
> pbrown@xxxxxxxx
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Giering [SMTP:dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 10:32 PM
> > To:  xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject:   Re: Netscape, XyWrite, and the Media
> >
> > Do m'arigato komenazie, Rene'
> >  I couldn't have said it better -
> > Frank and NOTA BENE staff - are you listening???
> > DG
> >
> > "Yo Intl." wrote:
> > >
> > > At 12:08 PM 2/26/00 -0600, Richard Giering wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Its sad that they are so close to being what an
> > > >HTML editor should be, but (like your IBM example)
> > > >there appears to be nonone in either organization
> > > >willing to hear suggestions or to consider this
> > >
> > > I mentioned exactly this before, but KF, in one of his
> > > rare appearances, said that there are fundamental differences
> > > between the XY and HTML formats. I still do not understand
> > > why; to my non-programmer mind it seems that the 
> > > and  tags in XY4 are the same as the slash on/off
> > > codes in HTML. Maybe somebody more computer literate
> > > can explain?
> > >
> > > Seeing how everybody left and right suddenly learns HTML,
> > > which is so close to XYwrite in its philosophy, it seems to lake
> > > shame to me that TTG does not jump on the chance to create
> > > the world's best HTML editor.
> > > But if the boss says no, then that is it.
> > >
> > > -- Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 

--
Leslie Bialler, Columbia University Press
lb136@xxxxxxxx
212-666-1000 x7109 (phone) 212-316-3100 (fax)
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup