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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Proliferation of book print styles
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 14:46:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic0AQazyb7JAT=75cNCB=v4h=f9pTyis55X=9HmDjwT0dA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ0xCDGw6ay-06GofuwsiHLabvR6zn5rOXhrFRf6TO7+CLtNA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 6:22 AM Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:

> The standards work that created SGML went a bit overboard, to my taste.
> The only really serious adopters of SGML that I can think of were the US
> military, but there may have been others.
>
>
Bookmaster (an IBM product, and I think what they used for their published
docs in the 90s into the 2000s?) was SGML based, if I remember correctly.
Writing in it was kind of lovely, and the traintrack diagrams for command
syntax were exceptionally well-done.

It made nice-looking docs (e.g.
https://distribution.sinenomine.net/opensolaris/install2.pdf).

Adam

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2024-06-04 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-06-02  2:31 [TUHS] " Will Senn
2024-06-02  2:44 ` [TUHS] " Peter Yardley
2024-06-03 21:42   ` James Frew
2024-06-04  5:49     ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-04 22:54       ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-07  7:58         ` Peter Yardley
2024-06-02  4:03 ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-02  8:08   ` Marc Rochkind
2024-06-02 13:50     ` Will Senn
2024-06-02 21:21     ` Kevin Bowling
2024-06-02 13:13   ` Will Senn
2024-06-02 12:39 ` Douglas McIlroy
2024-06-02 12:45   ` arnold
2024-06-02 12:55   ` Will Senn
2024-06-02 14:31   ` Al Kossow
2024-06-03  9:53     ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-04  4:26       ` Dave Horsfall
2024-06-02 14:48   ` Stuff Received
2024-06-02 17:44     ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-02 15:21   ` Michael Kjörling
2024-06-02 20:22     ` Åke Nordin
2024-06-04 13:22   ` Marc Donner
2024-06-04 14:15     ` Larry McVoy
2024-06-04 14:48     ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-06-04 14:53     ` Warner Losh
2024-06-04 15:29       ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2024-06-05  0:13       ` Alexis
2024-06-07  7:32       ` arnold
2024-06-04 21:46     ` Adam Thornton [this message]

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