SGML to PDF (or at least LaTeX)

[Jerzy Karczmarczuk]

Idris S Hamid :
> 
> Dear folks:
> I would like to convert some sgml documents to PDF. Does anyone know of a
> program that can convert sgml source to LaTeX source? From there I can add
> the commands needed to create pdflatex document. Looking at sgml source
> tells me that it must not be too hard to do....
> 
> thanks
> Idris

I think that you should start searching here:

http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/publicSW.html#conversion

You will find here a plethora of tools, e.g. the package of Jörg
Wittenberger

http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~jw6/doc/typeset/

You will need Scheme to run it (sdc).

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Another interesting initiative:

http://www.sgmltools.org/


Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Caen, France.

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PS. [Different topic]
    Answering to a posting which asked about dynamic fonts, I mildly
    suggested that somebody might format Arabic lines manually from
    right to left. (Actually one of my students did that a few years 
    ago...) We got then three very competent comments, and their
    authors pointed out that what I have said was crazy...
    Indeed. Please, please... I am not *as* crazy as that. I wanted
    *only* to point out that the multilinguistic documents rendering
    cannot be reduced to font problems. I am sorry for the useless
    trivialities.