****************** WELCOME TO SGML NEWSWIRE ****************** * * * To subscribe, send mail to sgmlinfo@avalanche.com. * * * * To receive a current table of contents and instructions * * for ordering back issues, specify "send toc" * * in the message body. * * * * (Please pass along to interested colleagues) * * * ************************************************************** ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING: PUBLISH WITHOUT PAPER ============================================ The current issue of PC Magazine features what is perhaps the computer trade press' most comprehensive guide to electronic publishing as it relates to hypertext publishing, SGML and HTML. In this lengthy cover story you will find handy charts describing the what, what for, how much, etc. of the tools available for portable documents, hypertext publishing, SGML and HTML. Articles and sidebars of particular interest include "Tag Masters," "Edit Trails," "HTML: Nothing but Net," "SGML: It's Still a la Carte," and "The Web Untangled." Excerpts: "New technologies are changing the way we package, deliver, and interact with electronic information... Today's electronic publishing tools are more like a primordial soup than a well-defined product category. We even refer to most of the categories by their underlying technologies rather than by their functions: Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), portable document software, and hypertext publishing. This mass of algorithmic amino acids has a single goal: to create publications that can be viewed, navigated, annotated, and distributed via CD-ROM, over a network, or through an on-line service. Much like groupware, these building blocks have overlapping capabilities, and vendors combine them in various ways trying to hit on a formula that results in a viable set of tools." PC Magazine, "Electronic Publishing; Publish Without Paper," Lori Grunin, Pauline Ores, James Karney, Rick Ayre, Kevin Reichard et al., 7 February 1995. SGML IN FEDERAL COMPUTER WEEK ============================= "The Pentagon's Continuous Acquisition and LifeCycle Support (CALS) program has been criticized recently on Capitol Hill, and some of its funding has been cut. But the Standard Generalized Markup Language, or SGML, first boosted by the CALS program, is taking on a life of its own..." Federal Computer Week, "SGML Broadens Appeal from DOD Base," Charlotte Adams, 5 December 1994. See sidebar, "New SGML products more user-friendly." THE A-TO-Z OF GETTING SET UP ON THE WEB ======================================= An article in the current issue of NewMedia Magazine includes to-the-point counsel and information about how to set up your Web site, creating a home page, multimedia on the Web, and new developments in HTML, as well as charts on Web browsers and HTML editors, a Web glossary, suggested online resources, and screen shots. "There's been a daydream in your brain of late: a scintillating, cutting-edge home page that will pull in countless Internet wayfarers like bees to honey. But you're confronted by the sour reality of selling the idea to your boss, who wants to see your plan complete with cost analysis. Even chanting "TCP/IP" over and over again doesn't help. Relax. Here's a complete overview of what's involved in getting up on the World Wide Web." New Media Magazine, "Publishing on the World Wide Web," Richard Wiggins, February 1995. ************************************************************** * SGML NEWSWIRE LIST MANAGER * * * * Linda Turner * * Corporate Communications * * Avalanche * * 4999 Pearl East Circle * * Suite 100 * * Boulder, CO 80301 * * sgmlinfo@avalanche.com * * linda@avalanche.com * * Vox: (303) 449-5032 * * Fax: (303) 449-3246 * **************************************************************