At 09:01 15/02/97 -0500, you wrote:

>The point is the manual wouldn't be distributed in SGML format. The
>Linux HOWTO
>series is written in SGML, but it is available to everyone in ASCII,
>HTML, LaTeX, 
>DVI, Postscript, RTF, etc. That's the advantage of SGML. The author
>writes in a 
>document meta-language that supports constructs that can be rendered in
>any 
>format. That's why it's an ISO standard (ISO 8879:1986). It's even
>possible to 
>handle things like audio files. In the HTML version it would be "Click
>here to 
>listen to example 1" and in the printed forms "Listen to example 1."

That's fine - as long as someone makes sure an up to date rendered version
of the SGML is available on a server where everyone can get at it! 

Is this process automated? Do you tell the server 'I want RTF' and out
comes an RTF version - I mean over FTP, since (and someone please correct
me if I'm wrong) there's no SGML rendering software available for Wintel?

And can it handle something like the Windows help file format? *That* would
be useful...

R.