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...inundated if you hook up to the following
advocacy list:
TEI-L -at- UICVM -dot- UIC -dot- EDU
"TEI" is the Text Encoding Initiative, a study/advocacy
group that has immersed it/themselves in the SGML
topic. Now, there isn't a lot of interaction on the
list (I've been there about two months...), but they
have an overwhelming ftp archive at:
SGML -at- UK -dot- AC -dot- EXETER
-- where there's stuff like:
* IBMIDDOC (the BookManager follow-on that IBM
has purportedly planned...)
* ISO8879 (SGML ISO standard -- look for something
called the (nicely done) Annotated Bibl. and List
of Resources
* COURSES (Univ./College courses covering SGML)
* CoST (the Copenhagen SGML Tool for translation of
SGML-based stuff
* HyTime (A standard and, I think, available SGML
encoding tool that is giving IBM BookManager envelopers
a nervous disorder...
...plus oodles of stuff you'll never need to know.
And sorry about the missing closing ")" thingies up
there, but I get SO excited...excuse me, have to go away.
Jack Shaw (I guess...)
jsh -at- software-ag -dot- de
Somewhere in deepest, darkest Germany (it rains a lot
here)
