RE: History of structured authoring tools

["Daniel Ng" <kjng -at- gprotechnologies -dot- com>]

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Rather interesting this, Interleaf/ Quicksilver product. Now the history
makes the future look so much clearer.

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From: WilliamFLawrence -at- eaton -dot- com [mailto:WilliamFLawrence -at- eaton -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 7:52 PM
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Subject: RE: History of structured authoring tools



Not to put too fine a point on it, but I recall when the first
Framemaker came out.  I was writing books on the emerging field of
desktop publishing in those days.

For some other interesting topics when browsing Wikipedia, take a look
at Ventura Publisher, Generalized Markup Language, Charles F. Goldfarb,
troff, Donald Knuth, and Scribe (markup language).  That will give you a
pretty good background in the history of technical publishing.  

Cheers,

Bill


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