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From: coats@mcnc.org (Carlie Coats)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: MCNC, RTP, NC
Date: 25 Sep 1996 15:56:39 GMT
Message-ID: <52bknn$75i@inxs.ncren.net>

In article <52bb4v$ggj@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>,
: [various writers] wrote:
:>>: aren't there software tools that can convert PostScript into HTML?
:>>: if not, someone could make some dough creating such a tool.
:>>Actually, that's pretty much impossible.
:
:it's very similar to translating machine language to C.
:
:PostScript describes layout, where HTML (SGML) describes structure.
:Your browser has all sorts of options to allow you to control the layout
:of the HTML structure.
:
:It's not clear that every layout can be described in HTML, much as C can't
:exploit every instruction.

Actually, it's _very_ clear that no standard HTML adequately
describes equation-layout.  Nor does the extended HTML dialect 
supported by any of the more popular browsers.


