Re: FM+SGML and multilanguage publication

[Chris Despopoulos <cud@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Emory said, re two languages side by side in Maker+SGML:

     Disconnected text flows definitely will not work,
     for the following reasons:

     1. Each new text flow must begin with an element
     that is valid at the
     highest level.

     2. On export to SGML, FM+SGML can only export the
     information in a single
     text flow.

I say this is patently untrue.  It is not difficult at all
to handle this case via an SGML API client.  Before you say
that's cheating, let me point out that SGML is inherently
vertical, and there are few if any real-world
implementations of Maker+SGML round trips that do not use
the SGML API.  (Technically speaking, none, because even the
vanilla export/import uses a minimal SGML API client, but
that's splitting hairs).  Given such an approach, you could
choose to mix the language versions in one SGML file, or you
could create two separate SGML files for each language.

Just my two 0.00€                             cud


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