Re: XYwrite on other markup (xxML) platforms

[Daniel Say say@xxxxxxxx]

" 
" >Unfortunately, that's not my call. Publishing houses want text they can
" >have some barely trained technician pull into an off-the-shelf DP program,
" >and they don't want to screw around with converting obsolete WP text to
" >Microsoft's latest version. I know Annie and Leslie have a raft of tricks
" >for importing XyWrite into DPs, but my customers don't use them (or care!).
" >Richard A. Sherer
"
" Doesn't RTF (still) work for most people?
"
" --Rene von Rentzell, Tokyo 
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	No. As explained at the Oz Internet Society, (still
	going on; Tim Berners-Lee's keynote speech was given
	wide coverage) Markup languages are undergoing a change.

	In the recent book "Document management for hypermedia
	design" by Piet A.M. Kommers (University of Twente,
	kommer@xxxxxxxx), Alcindo F. Ferrerir and Alex W. Kwak
	[ New York : Springer Verlag, 1998 ISBN 3-540-59483-3 ]
	RTF is falling by the wayside by requirements by governments
	for papers marked up in SGML which adds semantic information.
	Mr. Sherer uses ASK-SAM to find text; if SmartWords were, it
	too would add semantic tags.

	HTML, unbeloved by web users, is a derivative of ISO 8879.

	You will be viewing documents as linked ideas and terms in
	three-dimensions, many colours and musically.

	There is still flat linear text, but it has more sensory
	tags and links derived from it.

	Lotus Agenda was an early attempt to make automatic meaning
	from lexical links and sortings.