Subject: Re: Architectural Forms, separation of formatting and loose-leaf management From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 06 May 1998 09:22:07 -0400 |
You have a very good understanding of how things should "fit together" according to the SGML/HyTime view of the world! > Jordi Mulet wrote: > Can architectural forms model this meta-database schema to control > the three database from a top structure? Architectural > forms can store all the information about processing. I'm not sure. I don't quite understand this question, so I'll pass on it. > How difficult would be to build a similar system ? It would be a lot of C++ code for parsing PDFs, building a grove and so forth. I think that without giving away any secrets I can mention that TechnoTeacher is building infrastructure to make these kinds of projects easier. > It will be necessary to define property sets and grove plans for the > Layout scheme and Page scheme, doesn't ? Is there any working experience > on this topic ? ( PDF, Quark, FrameMaker,...) If anyone has defined grove plans for a layout-based language, it would be Peter Newcomb at TechnoTeacher, but he may not have got around to doing so yet. (so many grove plans, so little time) Paul Prescod - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Perpetually obsolescing and thus losing all data and programs every 10 years (the current pattern) is no way to run an information economy or a civilization." - Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10124.html DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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