Dannie, SGML is a strong contender for the markup language for books to
be embossed in braille.
There is a committee studying this matter that includes representatives
from the publishing industry.
More on this, when futher information is available.
On Sat, 26 Nov 1994, Dannie Gregoire wrote:
> > Many technical manuals are rendered useless by showing key caps
> > instead of using key names. In these manuals you find instructions
> > like "Press the [picture] key."
>
> Perhaps the publishing industry can take a lesson from the Internet. The
> Net through the use of HTML allows for the presentation of graphics if so
> desired. Alternate text explaining the graphics are presented in place
> of the images. Perhaps publishing software could include a similar
> feature.
>
> At time of writing, the author could incorporate both the "Press the
> [picture] key" and "Press the ANY key" into the document. This would
> make it very easy for the support both versions or the text. Full
> digrams and images can be given similar descriptions. Such support would
> be rediculously easy for desktop publishing software companies to include
> in their products.
>
> This is however still does not solve the problem of authors who do indeed
> frivously spread images throughout their texts. It does offer a possible
> solution for many types of documentation.
>
> --
> Dannie J Gregoire
> dannie@iglou.com
>
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