Re: Thot, Amaya, SOURCE presentation

In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:58:55 +0400."
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> >The problem is to manage the same information as a structure information
> and as
> >a simple text. This is a general problem for structured editors like Amaya.
> 
> >
> >Another problem is to be sure that the generated HTML code is correct. It's
> possible
> >if Amaya controls the structure manipulation, but not if it is under the
> user control.
> 
> Yes, this is a common problem for structured editors. But I've heard about
> such thing as variable hybrid editor. And I've looked at some papers about
> MultiView and TextView. But I'm not good in Thot for a while. So the
> questions are:
> 1. Is there any interest in working in this direction?

Of course yes.

> 2. Is it possible to implement this issue "on top" of Thot (i.e. completely
> on application level (on level of Amaya for example), without changing
> Thot's source code).

I think yes, because any application can control any Thot editing action.
I think it's easier to work at that level, but perhaps it should be more
efficient to work inside the Thot toolkit.

> 3. Is it possible to implement this issue "inside" of Thot (i.e. without
> changing an application).

> Excuse my possible offtopic, but this is quite interesting.
> 
> PS: It seems that Thot mailing list does not exist.

Regards
  Irene.

Received on Monday, 12 October 1998 06:35:13 UTC