RE: New links

[abowhill@xxxxxxxxxx (Allan Bowhill)]

Dave,

Yeah, a fuller explanation would have been nice. If a picture is worth a
thousand words, than this applies to section 9 :)
It's nice to have a graphical representation of some of the more
abstract concepts. 

This is the ultimate pipe-dream, but what would be really cool is a
back-end to OpenJade that makes a working graphic 
(2D bitmap or 3D model) of parse and flow object trees.

Most people in this list probably already know this, but at one point in
time there was a utility called CostWish, an add-on to the CosT (SGML
transformation) extension to TCL/Tk. I could never get it to compile on
Linux or FreeBSD (libraries too old, too many dependencies and a poor
makefile), but apparantly (according to the website) it provided a UI to
define translations and do a little rendering of the document and
document tree. 

Another TCL/Tk utility came out as an add-on to CostWish that would draw
a colorized-node graph of the document parse tree in another TCL window.
The whole mess of programs was based on ESIS output from nsgmls.I don't
know if processing FOT output from Jade was being worked on or even
considered. About a year ago, all of these utilities and websites just
vanished.

--Allan


> ----Original Message-----
> From:	DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, June 22, 1999 7:31 AM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	RE: New links
> 
> abowhill@xxxxxxxxxx  wrote:
> >For the purposes of visualizing a parse tree, there's a very nice
> >graphic of a grove for a tiny document and DTD. 
> >
> >http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ht/grove.html
> >
> 
> Yep, Very nice. I only wish Henry had done more in
> terms of explaining groves. It helped me enough to
> want more :-)
> 
> DaveP
> 
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