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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 / Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...> was heard to say: | At 06:40 PM 2/18/2003 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: |>ndw@n... (Norman Walsh) writes: |> >And yet I've watched [writers] spend hours tinkering with formatting in |> >their WYSIWYG tools, despite the fact they've been told that all the |> >formatting is going to get discarded. |> |>A well-designed set of labeled styles can help a lot here, actually. I |>find that many of these writers really want their prose to _look_ like |>it will on the final printed page, and that desire can be used to lure |>them down the path of labeled structures. Character-level habits are |>much harder to break than paragraph-level habits, but there's occasional |>cause for hope | | In the markup community, we would like people to think more | abstractly. There's two problems we have to overcome: I think I see where you're going, but I'm not sure "abstraction" is exactly what's going on. I think markup is about concreteness: that's a filename, that's a command, that's a paragraph, and that's a footnote. Be seeing you, norm - -- Norman.Walsh@S... | We do not know what thoughts stirred in the XML Standards Architect | mind of the last of the mastodons, but we can Web Tech. and Standards | take it that they were nothing very Sun Microsystems, Inc. | remarkable. It is hardly likely that the last | man will have the mind of a Goethe. He will | die, and that will be the last stage of human | progress.--Anatole France -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.7 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE+U6dROyltUcwYWjsRAvRJAJ4hVhNTkPBgKFXH0EQcLNulfPciBQCeMU06 pjTppOUMvAMcKYbum3qVm0w= =cJz0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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