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From: jos@cs.vu.nl (Jos Warmer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Text Movement Problems....
Message-ID: <3406@vlot.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 28 Sep 89 08:53:33 GMT
References: <1989Sep9.020234.14411@expert.com> <1276@gmdzi.UUCP> <1989Sep14.003142.2944@expert.com>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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dfickes@expert.com (David Fickes) writes:

>In article <1276@gmdzi.UUCP> thomas@gmdzi.UUCP (Thomas Gordon) writes:
>>From article <1989Sep9.020234.14411@expert.com>, by dfickes@expert.com (David Fickes):
>>> Simply put we are receiving a lot of submissions to the 
>>> magazine through email and on disk in various formats. >> ...
>>use the Amsterdam SGML Parser, or Sobemap's Markit to translate into
>>the formatter of your choice. 

>Except for the on problem that SGML is not supported by the
>final page layout software.... hmmmm... unless there is an
>intermediate step that I could take... SGML -> DCA -> QuarkExpress...

SGML documents can be converted to any other format you want.
At least the Amsterdam SGML Parser can do this (I am one of the authors)
and probably most other SGML parser too.
An SGML parser without this possibility is much less useful.

		     Jos Warmer
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