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Date:         Sat, 19 Dec 92 19:56:07 CET
From: Frank Mittelbach <MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
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Subject:      Re: parallel columns
Status: R


Some time ago I said in an answer to some query about parallel columns:

> On Sep 24, 10:28pm, frank wrote:
> >
> > finding a good input syntax for such tasks should be the first goal to
> > reach. i'm convinced that once that is done one could come up with an
> > implementation. so perhap this would be another task for the volunteer
> > list?

and a day later Dominik answered:

> You might want to have a look at the Text Encoding Initiative Guidlines
> which have defined SGML tag sets for many kinds of text: prose, verse,
> drama, spoken texts, letters and memoranda, dictionaries, lecical data,
> terminological data, language corpora & collections, etc., etc.
>
> Contact Lou Burnard <lou@vax.oxford.ac.uk> for further information
> and the availability of documentation.  Most docs are available
> via listserv at listserv@uicvm.bitnet.

I might want :-) and in fact I try to keep an eye on what's going on
in the TEI project. However, it is just not possible to everything
alone and so I would like to ask again for a volunteer who is willing
to look around for any proposal in other areas and come back with some
suggestions for a possible TeX syntax.

Frank