costwish Home Page

costwish is a tool for postprocessing and rendering of SGML documents based on Joe English's impressive CoST tool. It's based on tcl/tk and runs on all UNIX boxes; I hope that with the tcl/tk port to MAC and PC it will soon be available there.

The costwish distribution contains all the material to build and/or install it, but there is also a lot of generic SGML information, especially aimed at those new to SGML. So even if you don't want to run costwish, I hope that the material here might be useful.

costwish

• costwish-1.0a.tar.gz (the whole of this tree tar'ed and compressed). Does NOT contain binaries of costwishexe.
• Costwish documentation. This contains not only instructions for building and running costwish, but also a lot of general examples and help for SGML.
• An overview
• The README
• A diagram of what CoST/costwish does
• Some screen shots of costwish.
• costwish WWW site(binaries should be obtainable here).

SGML resources in this distribution

• A list of common SGML errors and some attempts at explanation.
• A glossary of about 80 common SGML terms
• Some simple examples of SGML documents including some hints for newcomers.

A few key WWW resources

There is a huge amount about SGML on the WWW and most can be easily found from the links below.

• CoST home page(Joe English)
• WWW SGML resource(Robin Cover)

PeterMR
April 21 1996