- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 19:51:41 +0200
- To: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>, Martin J Duerst <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>, www-international@w3.org
- Cc: rosenne@NetVision.net.il
Chris Lilley writes: > On Oct 18, 12:00am, Keld J|rn Simonsen wrote: > > > But why not just do as the standard prescribes [...] > > Then you are following international standards. > > > > By the way, the text of 10646 with the latest addenda is available > > in MS word format > > Is it just me that finds that funny? So many ISO WG seem to use MS Word > for document interchange. The definition, I believe, is 'what some verson > of MS Word produces on some platform'. Yet ISO does have a standard or > two about portable documents ... > > As long as the proposed definition of an ISO HTML does not settle on > 'what some version of HTML Assistant for Word emits on some platform' > things will work out OK in the end, I suppose. ISO/IEC JTC1 is shifting towards using its own standards, such as SGML and also HTML. But it takes some time. Keld
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