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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
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Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:43:22 +0100
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:25:53 +0000, (see below) wrote:

> On 16/01/2011 12:57, in article olao885lpaij$.1273idj6ytssc$.dlg@40tude.net,
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:59:18 +0000, Simon Wright wrote:
>> 
>>> Suppose we decide to have books with chapters with paragraphs. Are we
>>> going to say
>>> 
>>> <book>
>>>   <chapter>
>>>     <paragraph>
>> 
>> Let's not. Documents have no such structure. When imposed on, this
>> structure makes usage of the documents very difficult. ...
> 
> There was a fad in the '70s for program editors that worked on the basis of
> a similar structure, but derived from the syntax of the programming
> language.

I don't care much about the internal representation of the documents. In
particular because I don't think that document should be programmed (TeX
was all wrong idea).

> I never used any of them for more than half an hour because the
> kinds of things one wants to do when doing serious editing of source code
> simply do not respect the boundaries of syntactic constructs.

Yes, I think the point is important. There is another example of this.
Visual X-Tools is the worst ever IDE made, for this reason.

(For those lucky, who never heard about it, X-tools render the source code
in a way that visualize the program control structure. E.g. then-part of an
if-statement on the left and the else-part of the right, a sort of textual
block-diagrams.)

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de