Last typewriter factory in the world shuts its doors

[Russell reiter]

IBM GML and then SGML were the standardized computer markup language
for many years. THis was at a time when there was no integrated text
processing, mostly just line editing. HTML and later XML became the
notable subsets of this language. Docbook switching from DSSSL to
XML/XSLT popularized this format as a documentation standard today.
XSLT has available templates for XSL formating objects, which can then
be used to transmute text into a variety of document formats. However,
sgml is the granddaddy language, albeit with a much more limited
destination object vocabulary and far less human
readable/understandable content.

Russell

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:19 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> By the way, what tools do professionals use nowdays?  TeX is the only
> tool I know, but I doubt if people use that.
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> William
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 07:48:04PM -0400, Russell reiter wrote:
>> More efficiently. You can produce a lot more type if your not fixing
>> some cock up you could have avoided.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:42 PM, Scott Allen <mlxxxp-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> > On 27 April 2011 19:25, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> >> [...] the qwerty keyboard was designed to slow the
>> >> operator down so as not to jam up the keys.
>> >
>> > This often quoted myth is not true. It was designed to reduce jamming
>> > so the operator could type FASTER.
>> > <http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html>
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