Re: Architectural Forms, separation of formatting and loose-leaf management

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

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