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RE: Co-operating with Architectural Forms

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• Subject: RE: Co-operating with Architectural Forms
• From: Frank Richards <frichards@s...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:08:29 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <m37kpym99c.fsf@d...>

>>>Can someone please explain what, exactly, are the
operative esthetic values that cause the AF solution to
be perceived as ugly?  I simply don't see it, and I've
never seen it.
<<<

Well, like HyTime and ISO 8879 itself, AFs were presented to the world in
horrible English (combining a poorly drafted statute with a needlessly
convoluted academic paper) in a vocabulary based largely on tertiary
meanings and backward senses of words. But other than that, like HyTime and
SGML, they're cool.

Frank

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