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Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?

Subject: Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?
From: "Susan Hogarth" <hogarth -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:15:45 -0500

On 2/9/07, D. Michael McIntyre <michael -dot- mcintyre -at- rosegardenmusic -dot- com> wrote:

...
I do hope that happens though. One format, one standard, for all platforms,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all! But that's a FOSS commune
hippie talking. The proprietary world always seems to find a way to wreck
universal standards.

Competing standards is not just an artifact of 'the proprietary
world', though. Aren't there competing standards within the OS
community?

And *shouldn't* there be? It sounds nice to say that everyone should
be following the same standards, but what if different standards are
called for in different sitautions? What if someone devises a *better*
standard?

...
I want a universal XML schema that everyone can agree on. ...

We don't even have an *English* that everyone can agree on. And
honestly, I'm not sure that's a bad thing. I wouldn't want business
people and poets to speak or write the same way, and I woudln't
(neccessarily) want a poet to write the same way he speaks.

Universal standards are a pipe dream, like Esperanto. And you see how
well -that- caught on.

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References:
Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: Geoff Hart
RE: Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: Dan Dube
Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: ct
Re: Current trends in Authoring Tools?: From: D. Michael McIntyre

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