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Date:    Thu, 27 Sep 90 19:04:48 A

To:      emv@math.lsa.umich.edu

From:    Lou Burnard <lou@ws.oxford.ac.uk>


Someone on this list asked for suggestions for further reading on SGML.
There follows a brief (100 lines) Reading List on SGML, in SGML.
It is extracted from the recently published Guidelines for the 
Encoding and Interchange of Machine Readable Texts of the Text
Encoding Initiative.

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			|imprint|citn.detail|comment)"                  >
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<!-- This is the short SGML Reading list referred to in section 3.1       -->

<LIST.CITN>
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>Barnard, David et al </author>
<TITLE.piece>SGML Based Markup for literary texts </title.piece>
<TITLE>Computers and the Humanities</title>
<PUBL.DATE>1988</publ.date>
<CITN.DETAIL>vol 22 pp 265-76</citn.detail>
<COMMENT>Pioneering attempt to represent literary structures using  SGML.</comment>
</citn.struct>
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>Barron, David</author>
<TITLE.piece> Why use SGML?
<TITLE>Electronic Publishing
<PUBL.DATE>April 1989
<CITN.DETAIL> vol 2(1) pp 3-24 
<COMMENT>Well-written brief overview of SGML in context of
other developments in electronic text handling
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>Bryan, Martin
<TITLE>SGML: an author's guide to the Standard Generalized Markup Language
<PUBLISHER>Addison-Wesley
<PUBL.DATE>1988
<COMMENT>Detailed text book giving full treatment of the
standard, but primarily from the publishing perspective.
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>Coombs, James H. et al
<TITLE.piece>Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing
<TITLE>  Communications of the ACM
<PUBL.DATE>November 1987
<CITN.DETAIL>Vol 30 no 11 ppp 933-47
<COMMENT>Classic polemic in favour of descriptive over
procedural markup presented from the scholarly perspective
<citn.struct>
<author><CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>International Organisation for Standardisation
<TITLE>ISO 8879: Information processing - Text and office
systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
<PUBL.DATE>1986
<COMMENT>Annexes A and B to the Standard provide a formal
but readable summary of its most important features.
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>International Organisation for Standardisation
<TITLE>ISO/TR 9573: Information processing - SGML support
facilities - Techniques for using SGML
<PUBL.DATE>1988
<COMMENT>Tutorial discussion of main features of the standard with some interesting 
examples 
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<EDITOR>McCarty, Willard
<TITLE.piece>[Humanist's Markup Topic files] [computer files]
<TITLE> Humanist Electronic Discussion Group
<PUBL.DATE>March-May 1989
<CITN.DETAIL>Files MARKUP TOPIC-1 to MARKUP TOPIC-6
<COMMENT>Contain a wealth of informed and uninformed comment and speculation 
about markup in general and SGML in particular. Available from ListServ
@ BROWNVM.EARN
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>van Herwijnen, Eric
<TITLE>Practical SGML
<PUBLISHER>Wolters Kluwer
<PUBL.DATE>1990 (June)
<COMMENT>General purpose introductory textbook
<CITN.STRUCT>
<AUTHOR>Warmer, J. and S. van Egmond
<TITLE.piece>The implementation of the Amsterdam SGML parser
<TITLE> Electronic Publishing
<PUBL.DATE>July 1989
<CITN.DETAIL> vol 2 (2), pp65-90
COMMENT>Discusses some of technical problems in implementing an SGML compiler 
using standard LL(1) parser-generator techniques
<CITN.STRUCT>         
<AUTHOR>Wu, Gilbert S.K.
<TITLE>SGML theory and practice (British Library research paper  68)
<PUBL.DATE>1989
<COMMENT>Section 3 is a good 30 page summary of the most salient features
of the standard
</list.citn>
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Lou Burnard
Associate Editor, Text Encoding Initiative
Oxford University Computing Service                     LOU@UK.AC.OX.VAX
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