Re: For Carter Campbell

[Dorothy Day DAY@xxxxxxxx]

To K.:

>As far as HTML (and SGML) support is concerned we will undoubtedly be doing
>work in both areas. THe real issue is the timing vis a vis other initiatives.
>And that is not presently resolved. That is to say, at the moment those
>projects are not at the top of the stack.
> >K.

Considering the speed with which HTML/SGML are taking over
publishing and other venues of scholarly and corporate
communication, and the relatively small investment in time
required to produce a decent printer driver (and even keyboard)
to output HTML and SGML format,

   *this should be precisely at the top of the stack!*

Decent ascii editors for producing either kind of markup are
still scarce, but demand is *extremely* broad and deep, and
every company with its marketing and development ear to the
ground is putting out tools *now*. Xywrite is unmatched in its
potential usefulness to perform the marking up; don't let
another 3 months go by without releasing at least the printer
driver that would transform it into a market stealer.

A set of S/G macros to insert the most common tag pairs is an
hour's work. We can each do it ourselves, or get a uniform set
from TTG.

XyWin could even be tweaked to be a decent viewer of HTML and
SGML marked-up texts. Add postscript management, and you'll
munch Acrobat .PDF files as lunch hors d'oeuvre...

This really is important, and will take surprisingly little time
to produce simple tools that will do a lot. Then licence them to
NB, and get some nice royalties from that crowd.

Dorothy Day, Indiana University SLIS day@xxxxxxxx