Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?

Subject: Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?
From: "D. Michael McIntyre" <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 18:41:58 -0500

On Friday 09 February 2007 4:15 pm, Susan Hogarth wrote:
> Competing standards is not just an artifact of 'the proprietary
> world', though. Aren't there competing standards within the OS
> community?

On some levels, yes, but there is much better interoperability, because the
standards are open. So yes, I'll settle for open standards if I can't have
my pipe dream.

You raise good arguments about not wanting one English for bankers and poets,
but I think I would say we *do* have *one* English, and it's just flexible
enough to do every job it needs to do.

I suppose I would then have to extend that one step further, and say that,
indeed, English == XML in this respect. It's an enabler, not a means in of
itself, and everything depends on the context in which you use the thing.

TouchÃ. A point well made.

> Universal standards are a pipe dream, like Esperanto. And you see how
> well -that- caught on.

Jes, sed mi amas Esperanton malgraÅ tio! :D

(Which probably doesn't seem surprising to you about now, does it?)

(For the people who have had better things to do than waste time with
Esperanto, I was trying to say "Yes, but I love Esperanto anyway!")

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References:
Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: Geoff Hart
Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: D. Michael McIntyre
Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: Susan Hogarth

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