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Subject:      Re: Standard journal macros
Status: R

At 10:41 AM 1999-09-06 -0400, you wrote:
> > >The point is that not only do you get the down-translation for print
> > >in LaTeX but also you can write (in the programming language of your
> > >choice) translators to whatever other formats you wish to reach.  (Of
> > >course, very clever things in this direction have been done using TeX,
> > >the program, but I suspect that there is a limit to this approach.)
> >
> > Maybe Springer is learning from Elsevier Sciences mistakes.  They focused
> > on SGML for years --- and look what happened to *their* share prices :0!
> > --
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>
>Is the writer who I think he is?

Yes, sorry, I forgot to switch persona (i.e. Eudora signature file) when
I got on the machine.

>Those translators could even be written in lisp.   :-)

As in
http://cseng.awl.com/bookpage.taf?ISBN=0-201-08319-1&ptype=0&catid=&navmin=&
ctype=author&catpage=&seriesid=
:-)

>In fact, I may even go that way myself eventually.

Regards, Berthold.


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