Commentary 4O Further Context for "What is Text, Really?" Steven J. DeRose INSO Corporation, Boston, MA 02116, sjd@eps.inso.com David G. Durand Elli Mylonas Allen H. Renear Introduction Before addressing the specific responses to "What is Text, Really?",we would like to clarify the context of the article's production. The respondents all note the early publication date of 1990, but in fact the artide grew out of a series of presentations we gave in 1986 and 1987. There had been a steady evolution of mainframe text processing systems from pure formatting languages (such as Script and nroff) to more structured text-representation languages such as Waterloo GML, Scribe, and LaTeX.We considered SGML'sapproval as a standard in 1986 as the codification of these advances and as a way their benefits could become widely available.At the same time, we saw the headlong rush to WYSIWYGformatting systems like MacWriteand the early versions of Microsoft Word. While these systems had vasdy superior user.interaction facilities, they utterly lacked support for any form of text sLucture. Our article was a reaction to this regression in the area of document representation in the 1980s. Since then, the fundamental utility of the notions we were advocating has been further
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Further context for “What is text, really?”
DeRose, Steven J.
Follow ACM SIGDOC Asterisk Journal of Computer Documentation
, Volume 21 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1997
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