Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 22:29:56 +0300 From: "Andrew V. Stesin" <stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: To SGML gurus -- (fwd) ANNOUNCE: SDC 1.0 available Message-ID: <199607081929.WAA18917@office.elvisti.kiev.ua>
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From: Joerg Wittenberger <joerg.wittenberger@inf.tu-dresden.de> Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,comp.text Subject: ANNOUNCE: SDC 1.0 available Date: 2 Jul 1996 19:10:13 +0200 Organization: University of Technology Dresden Message-ID: <7p4tnqh98r.fsf@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> X-Url: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jw6 SDC version 1.0(beta) is available now. SDC is a well featured, free system aiming to make SGML suitable for day to day use. SDC compiles SGML documents into representations as PostScript, LaTeX, HTML, man pages, (emacs) info files and is a little RTF aware. The goal of SDC is to be author friendly, easy to use without the need of special editors and to hide as much of the backend as possible. Hence the required markup is minimized, mixed content type allow you to type text (almost) everywhere and get the desired meaning. There are no `special characters' but those special to SGML (< and &). With SDC it is really simple to write technical documentation, reports, books, letters, man pages, or prepare talks (with slides and hand outs). You can include some graphic (made with other tools, e.g., xfig, tgif or anything creating EPS-Files) or other special data representation (e.g., tlb/roff tables) and so on with ease. SDC allows you to convert from one DTD to another (and makes heavy use of internaly, e.g., when implying tags other DTD's require to type or when formating a manpage as a subdocument of something else). It's also not a big deal to use it with other DTD's than those supplied in the distribution. SDC's internals compare somewhat to STIL, but seem to require less knowledge of Scheme and less typing to write programs with. Whatever you do, while writing you never have to worry what the final result will look like. When done, you convert your writing into the desired target format by SDC and promised: it will look *at least* reasonable. Prior versions have been successfully used through the past three years. For detailed information have a look at: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jw6/doc/sdc/index.html it's also available by anonymous ftp from: ftp.inf.tu-dresden.de/pub/people/jerry/sdc-1.0beta.tar.gz -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. Phones/fax: +380 (44) { 244-0122, 276-0188, 271-3457, 271-3560 } "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.
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