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1 Introduction

I have looked at Bernd Krieg-Brükner's proposal for CASL syntax at

        http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/~agbkb/CoFI/CASL/syntax/syntax.0.2.45.ps

(hereafter referred to as BKB-CASL) and I am impressed with the work laid down, the thought put into the many details, and the care which lies behind many of the suggestions.

I have also read (most of) a book on SGML this Easter (Travis, Waldt: The SGML Implementation Guide, Springer 1996). See

        http://www.sgmlopen.org/sgml/docs/sgmldesc.htm

for a very brief introduction to SGML, and

        http://www.sil.org/sgml/publicSW.html
        ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/SGML/

for an overview of some free SGML related tools. These include parsers for SGML, normalisers (tools that will insert standard tokens where various shorthands have been used), and interfaces to many common document formatting tools, such as latex.

These readings motivated the following comments.

CoFI Note: T-1 ---- 7 April 1997.
Comments to Magne.Haveraaen@ii.uib.no