From: "(see below)" <news@findlayw.plus.com>
Subject: Re: Generating PDFs with Ada
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 14:25:53 +0000
Date: 2011-01-16T14:25:53+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C958B071.4551%news@findlayw.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: olao885lpaij$.1273idj6ytssc$.dlg@40tude.net
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 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.
--
Bill Findlay
with blueyonder.co.uk;
use surname & forename;
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-09 1:00 Generating PDFs with Ada R. Tyler Croy
2011-01-09 9:29 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-10 2:29 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-10 3:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-10 10:19 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-10 17:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-15 13:55 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 14:51 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-15 15:20 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 17:55 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 3:13 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-16 3:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-09 9:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-09 11:28 ` leonid
2011-01-09 15:36 ` Gautier write-only
2011-01-10 18:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 1:50 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-11 8:51 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-11 15:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 18:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 20:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 20:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-01-11 22:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 22:14 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:22 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-11 22:32 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:38 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 1:37 ` Shark8
2011-01-12 9:42 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-12 22:53 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 8:29 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-11 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 9:36 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-12 13:02 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-12 14:16 ` Pascal Obry
2011-01-12 9:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-01-12 9:44 ` sjw
2011-01-12 10:44 ` Manuel Collado
2011-01-12 13:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-12 10:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-12 21:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2011-01-12 21:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-12 23:14 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 8:33 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-13 9:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-13 20:40 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-13 22:34 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-14 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-13 23:59 ` Edward Fish
2011-01-15 15:04 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-15 17:45 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-15 23:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-16 2:49 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-16 3:21 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 11:59 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-16 12:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 14:25 ` (see below) [this message]
2011-01-16 16:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 20:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 15:33 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-16 16:44 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-16 21:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 20:34 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 1:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-16 2:49 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-16 12:27 ` Elias Salomão Helou Neto
2011-01-16 19:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-01-12 21:06 ` Florian Weimer
2011-01-12 14:14 ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
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