Posted by TaliesinSoft on 02/16/07 16:04

On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:38:43 -0600, Dave Balderstone wrote (in article
<150220072338430009%dave@N_O_T_T_H_I_Sbalderstone.ca>):

[responding to my request for definitions for "markup" and "page description"
languages]

> HTML as a markup language describes parameters for a multitude of possible
> interpreters rendering a page, based on what can be fairly vague
> instructions, so that an instruction like 'font size="-2"' will display
> different absolute results depending on the client doing the
> interpretation (IE/Safari/Firefox/Omniweb/etc).
>
> Postscript, OTOH, is a specific description language based on a known and
> consistent interpreter, where an instruction such as '90 rotate 0 -612
> translate' will do *exactly* the same thing no matter where it is
> interpreted (HP/Agfa/Harlequin/etc), and display *exactly* the same result.

Thanks! Maybe you ought to start writing for Wikipedia! :-)

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James Leo Ryan ..... Austin, Texas ..... taliesinsoft@mac.com

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