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BS DD181(1991) : 1991

Superseded
Superseded

A superseded Standard is one, which is fully replaced by another Standard, which is a new edition of the same Standard.

TECHNIQUES FOR USING STANDARD GENERALIZED MARKUP LANGUAGE (SGML)
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

15-08-1999

Language(s)

English

Published date

01-01-1991

Committees responsible
Foreword
Techniques
0. Introduction
1. Scope and field of application
2. References
3. Definitions
4. Document analysis for the creation of a document
     type definition
5. General document
6. Letter and memorandum
7. Spreadsheet
8. Mathematics
9. Tables
10. Integration of computer graphics metafiles
11. Japanese
12. Linguistic application - Scandinavian runes
13. European multi-lingual document
14. The use of short references
15. Mixing test in languages written from left to right
     and from right to left
Figures
1. Sample pages from the body of an International
     Standard
2. Sample title page
3. Overall structure of the basic document
4. Structure of the h2 element
5. Structure of the phrase (%m.ph), paragraph (%m.p),
     and paragraph sequence (%m.pseq) models
6. Structure of the section subelements
7. Structure of all phrases
8. Structure of all paragraph/section subelements
9. Structure of all floating elements
10. Overall structure of a spreadsheet
11. Structure of a formula in a spreadsheet
12. Japanese: horizontal typesetting (text written from
     left to right)
13. Japanese: vertical typesetting (text written from
     top to bottom)
14. Japanese: source document

This Technical Report complements ISO 8879 by providing additional tutorial information, intended as an extension, modification, or interpretation of ISO 8879. The SGML language contains a number of components, some of which are optional features. The tutorial information covers the main components of the language only. Includes notes on the analysis of a document prior to the writing of a formal document type definition, and a series of examples. Covers references, definitions, letter and memorandum, spreadsheet, mathematics, tables, integration of computer graphics metafiles, Japanese, Scandinavian Runes, European Multi-lingual Document, the use of short references and mixing text in languages written from left to right and from right to left.

Committee
IST/18
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
120
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded

Standards Relationship
ISO/IEC TR 9573:1988 Identical

ISO 9069:1988 Information processing SGML support facilities SGML Document Interchange Format (SDIF)
ISO/IEC 4873:1991 Information technology ISO 8-bit code for information interchange Structure and rules for implementation
ISO/IEC 2022:1994 Information technology Character code structure and extension techniques
ISO/IEC 8859-6:1999 Information technology 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet
ISO/IEC 9070:1991 Information technology SGML support facilities Registration procedures for public text owner identifiers
ISO 8879:1986 Information processing Text and office systems Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
ISO/IEC 6937:2001 Information technology Coded graphic character set for text communication Latin alphabet
ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 8632-4:1999 Information technology Computer graphics Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information Part 4: Clear text encoding
ISO/IEC 8632-2:1992 Information technology — Computer graphics — Metafile for the storage and transfer of picture description information — Part 2: Character encoding

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