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[S2] SGML MANUALS: COMMENTARY AND INDICES FOR ISO 8879
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*All five volumes in this section are available for purchase from the
GCA collection "Information Technologies Publications and Resources,"
as well as from the named publishers or distributors. GCA addresses
are given in entry [105]. Publications [48] and [51] are also
available from the SGML Users' Group Bookstore and may be ordered from
the SGMLUG Secretary; see [106].
[47] Bingham, Harvey W. SGML Syntax Summary. Cambridge, MA:
Interleaf, 2-June-1988. 46 pages. The document supplies cross-
reference information which is not given or optimally accessible
in the ISO 8879 standard itself. The syntax summary covers the
primary ISO document (8879), Amendment 1 (Fall 1987) and
Amendment 1, Corrections (May 1988). Copies of the syntax
summary were mailed to subscribers of [TAG] with issue 1/4
(1988). Updates are (were?) available from Interleaf.
[48] Bryan, Martin. SGML: An Author's Guide to the Standard
Generalized Markup Language. Wokingham/Reading/New York:
Addison-Wesley, 1988. ISBN: 0-201-17535-5 (pbk); LC CALL NO:
QA76.73.S44 B79 1988. 380 pages. A highly detailed and useful
manual explaining and illustrating features of ISO 8879. The
book: (1) shows how to analyse the inherent structure of a
document; (2) illustrates a wide variety of markup tags; (3)
shows how to design your own tag set; (4) is copiously
illustrated with practical examples; (5) covers the full range
of SGML features. Technical and non-technical authors,
publishers, typesetters and users of desktop publishing systems
will find this book a valuable tutorial on the use of SGML and a
comprehensive reference to the standard. It assumes no prior
knowledge of computing or typography on the part of its readers.
[49] Goldfarb, Charles F. The SGML Handbook. Edited and with a
foreword by Yuri Rubinsky. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1990. ISBN: 0-19-853737-1. 688 pages. This volume contains
the full annotated text of ISO 8879 (with amendments), authored
by IBM Senior Systems Analyst and acknowledged "father of SGML,"
Charles Goldfarb. The book was itself produced from SGML input
using a DTD which is a variation of the "ISO.general" sample DTD
included in the annexes to ISO 8879. The SGML Handbook
includes: (1) the up-to-date amended full text of ISO 8879,
extensively annotated, cross-referenced, and indexed (2) a
detailed structured overview of SGML, covering every concept (3)
additional tutorial and reference material (4) a unique "push-
button access system" that provides paper hypertext links
between the standard, annotations, overview, and tutorials.
[50] Herwijnen, Eric van. Practical SGML. Dordrecht/Hingham, MA:
Wolters Kluwer Academic Publishers. 200 pages. ISBN: 0-7923-
0635-X. The book is designed as a "practical SGML survival-kit
for SGML users (especially authors) rather than developers," and
itself constitutes an experiment in SGML publishing. The book
provides a practical and painless introduction to the essentials
of SGML, and an overview of some SGML applications. See the
reviews by (1) Carol Van Ess-Dykema in Computational Linguistics
17/1 (March 1991) 110-116, and (2) Deborah A. Lapeyre in [TAG]
16 (October 1990) 12-14.
[51] Smith, Joan M.; Stutely, Robert S. SGML: The Users' Guide to
ISO 8879. Chichester/New York: Ellis Horwood/Halsted, 1988. 173
pages. ISBN: 0-7458-0221-4 (Ellis Horwood) and ISBN: 0-470-
21126-1 (Halsted). LC CALL NO: QA76.73.S44 S44 1988. The book
(1) supplies a list of some 200 syntax productions, in numerical
and alphabetical sequence; (2) gives a combined abbreviation
list; (3) includes highly useful subject indices to ISO 8879 and
its annexes (4) supplies graphic representations for the ISO
8879 character entities; (5) lists SGML keywords and reserved
names. An overview of the book may be found in the SGML Users'
Group Newsletter 9 (August 1988) 9.