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From: atkins@caveman (Steve Atkins)
Subject: Re: Publishing Scholarly Work on the Web -- opinions?
Organization: AMD
Date: 25 Sep 1996 14:51:04 GMT
Message-ID: <ATKINS.96Sep25095104@caveman>


>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Colvin <mac@coos.dartmouth.edu> writes:

    Alex> it's very similar to translating machine language to C.

    Alex> PostScript describes layout, where HTML (SGML) describes
    Alex> structure.  Your browser has all sorts of options to allow
    Alex> you to control the layout of the HTML structure.

    Alex> It's not clear that every layout can be described in HTML,
    Alex> much as C can't exploit every instruction.

Quite true, though as long as the meaning is conveyed that's all that's important.

This is way off topic for most of the groups it's in. Followups set.

Cheers,
  Steve
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