From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,HEADER_SPAM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 1032a1,1a91c683b7703121 X-Google-Attributes: gid1032a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,8f0e2b9422a6e2f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Martin Kew Subject: Re: AWEB; Enhanced Document Encoding Date: 1999/04/13 Message-ID: <7eu9tm$4nc$1@news.interlog.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 465721522 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <7bv5nl$8vc$1@plug.news.pipex.net> <7c5up1$gf7$1@news-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> <7c8tir$nt0$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <36ed4e1c.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> <7cooqo$mdf$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <36f04969.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> <36f1dd17.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> <36f29e53.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> <36f5c8d3.0@pfaff.ethz.ch> <7d8p8d$sj2$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <7eo0s5$a6h$1@news.interlog.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 NNTP-Posting-Time: 13 Apr 1999 02:24:54 GMT Organization: Vision Abell Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.programming.literate Date: 1999-04-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Patrick M�rissert-Coffini�res wrote: > ... Then Leslie Lamport made the very point that Sven Utcke is making: that pure > wysiwyg encouraged people to forget the structure of what they were doing, So I > thing LyX, with the wysiwyM idea is a wonderful approach. In a way it is a > compromise of course, since it is still possible to twist the structure, but at a > higher level, and this is in my mind analogous to high-level languages that do not > prevent totally the programmer from doing unnatural thins, just make it easier for > the willing programmer to resist the temptation of doing so. Patrick, I whole heartily agree and would like to extend the statement by saying that: The act of diminishing or removing the translation step from desired structure to concrete ASCII syntax (with the use of the wysiwyM concept). Places the author at a higher semantic level in a document's generation, i.e. the author does not have to think about hand translating the desired structure to the required LaTeX syntax, but can concentrate on the document's form and structure. -- Regards Martin Kew Vision Abell Pty Ltd Second Avenue, Technology Park Mawson Lakes SA 5095 Australia Tel +61 8 8300 4544 Fax +61 8 8349 7420 email Martin.Kew@vsl.com.au http://www.vsl.com.au