Paul Gilmartin wrote: >In the wider perspective, ASA carriage control was originally a form of >presentational markup targeted at a class of output devices, impact printers, >then preponderant, now dwindling.
Markup, yes, this is the correct word in these times of markup languages. The ASA cc was indeed a type of markup where you say, put text here, start new page there, overwrite a line there and there. It reminds me of the type of first column (AFAIK) where you tell the 3800 laser printer to use this or that font on this or that line. Any greybeards remembering this 3800 toy? ;-D >It would be chaotic to produce an instance of each report for each class of >output device (printer, 3278, GUI display, etc.) Semantic markup is the >necessary answer. It would likewise be chaotic to undertake conversion of each >report generator to generate reports with semantic markup. A likely better >place to do this is in a SYSOUT writer that filters ASA carriage control to a >semantic markup language such as HTML, or perhaps XML. Agreed 100%. Is there such software [1] ? I'm aware of XML on /zOS, but can you use it on a SYSOUT? > And it might be unreasonable to expect such a filter to generate proper > markup for intended tabular material in reports. (Does XMITIP, for example, > to this?) Interesting question! Thanks, I wonder what answer you will get? Thanks Paul for your kind comments. It is much appreciated! Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - It seemed to me that LRS/DRS can do this, but then, there is no actual printing in this case. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
