<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 October 2010 12:25, Keith J. Schultz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keithjschultz@web.de">keithjschultz@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
TeX was developed as a subset of SGML or if you wish clone, variant, etc.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is completely wrong, and anachronistic. SGML was born long after TeX and LaTeX. </div><div><br>
</div><div>It is true that LaTeX's syntax owes a debt to Scribe (as Lamport says somewhere), and that </div><div>Scribe, Waterloo Script and similar systems were early forerunners of the concept of structure/content distinction that</div>
<div>was later also taken up by SGML. </div><div><br></div><div>But in any case, none of this applies to Knuth's plain TeX, which was developed independently as a software project </div><div>to typeset his own books.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Dominik</div></div>