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From: mac@coos.dartmouth.edu (Alex Colvin)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Date: 25 Sep 1996 13:13:02 GMT
Message-ID: <52bb4v$ggj@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>

>>: 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.
>conceptually, i don't see why.  admittedly, i'm not familiar
>with the details of either HTML or PostScript, but i have

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.

--
	Alex Colvin
	alex.colvin@dartmouth.edu


