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Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??

• To: AndrewWatt2000@a...
• Subject: Re: Future of XSL-FO at W3C??
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:48:00 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: jcowan@r..., xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <16d.14390509.2ae1689e@a...> from "AndrewWatt2000@a..." at Oct 18, 2002 09:37:34 AM

AndrewWatt2000@a... scripsit:

> I am reminded of what Marie Antoinette so nearly said: "The pedants are 
> revolting!". :)

I thought it was "Let them eat brioche!"  After all, it's only a small
matter of liaison that separates _les heros de la revolution francaise_
from _les zeros_.  And I could have gone all Johnsonian on him and come
out with "A man who would make so poor a pun would not scruple to pick
my pocket."  In fact, I praised the pun.  No true pedant would do that.

No, it was just another public-service meme-stomping, along with the
notions that there once was a group called "the Vikings" and the Great
Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax.  Oh yes, and *why* King Canute ordered the tide
to stop coming in.

-- 
John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
        --Brian K. Reid

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