Electronic Publishing, Vol. 8(2 3), 125--138 (june September 1995)

Stichting Mathematisch Centrum. Informatica, 1982

A Document Formatting system is presented which provides a highly structured user interface. In particular, the system incorporates an elaborate error detection-and recovery mechanism, whereas format directives are implemented by the user in a high-level language, instead of in the rather low-level macro languages generally used for this purpose. Furthermore, a systematic way of dealing with problems, like the avoidance of 'widows' etc. is discussed, as well as a concatenation mechanism for 2-dimensional strings. Finally, all major design decisions taken for this system, are extensively motivated.

Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering - DocEng '03, 2003

In this paper, we present a framework for coupling an existing formatting system such as SMIL [7] and Madeus [13] with a formatting control system XEF [10]. This framework allows the coupling process to be performed at two levels: 1) the language level, which is concerned with how to link the control features of XEF and the elements of an existing formatting system, and 2) the formatter level, which deals with the creation of a new formatter by formatter composition. The overall objective is to provide more powerful and flexible formatting services to cover new needs such adaptive and/or generated presentations.

Electronic …, 1991

Structured documents such as those developed for SGML, GML or L A T E X usually contain a combination of text and tags. Since various types of documents require tags with different placement, the creator of a document must learn and retain a large amount of knowledge. Rita consists of an editor and user interface which are controlled by a grammar or description of a document type and its tags, and which guide the user in preparing a document, thus avoiding the problems of tags being used or placed incorrectly. The user interface contains a display which is almost WYSIWYG so that the appearance of the document can be examined while it is being prepared. This paper describes Rita, its user interface and some of its internal structure and algorithms, and relates anecdotal user experiences. Comparisons are also made with other commercial and experimental systems. KEY WORDS Document manipulation Finite state automata User interfaces Incomplete documents Structured documents Syntax-directed editing Partial documents

Proceedings of the First International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, 2004

Each structured document can be represented by means of XML and an associated DTD. The goal of this article is to present a formal model of a structured document, and to make a representation of a document described by the model with a conceptual graph and a related DTD. Researches made over structural documents are oriented to the modeling of documents, either from the point of view of operations over a document or, 257

Machine graphics & vision, 2000

The paper is aimed at presentingof several views to automatic synthesis of structured D drawings We view the subject from di erent standpoints document con guration knowledge repres entation and document management Our case study is in the domain of con guration of electroplating lines As a result of the con guration process a set of technical drawings is produced We present an approach and a software system SyntheCAD to the preparation of technical drawings for generating layouts automatically rather than building interactively We treat SyntheCAD as a combination of two tasks con guration as in arti cial intelligence and document preparation The method combines basic concepts of the component oriented approach to con guration and generic coding introduced in document preparation

Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Document engineering - DocEng '09, 2009

We review the literature on automatic document formatting with an emphasis on recent work in the field. One common way to frame document formatting is as a constrained optimization problem where decision variables encode element placement, constraints enforce required geometric relationships, and the objective function measures layout quality. We present existing research using this framework, describing the kind of optimization problem being solved and the basic optimization techniques used to solve it. Our review focuses on the formatting of primarily textual documents, including both micro-and macro-typographic concerns. We also cover techniques for automatic table layout. Related problems such as widget and diagram layout, as well as temporal layout issues that arise in multimedia documents are outside the scope of this review.

1990

Description/Abstract We present a powerful grammar-based paradigm for electronic document markup: coordinated definite clause translation grammars. This markup is of a declarative character, being, in effect, a collection of constraints on the logical and ...

2001

The integration of the text, graphic, audio, video and animation on the desktop promises to fundamentally challenge the old models of the printed document as the basis for information exchange. A multimedia document is a specification activity that can be used to coordinate the presentation runtime of the media objects. Several language that support the multimedia document exist today, for example HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Interaction Language). HTML is an SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) based standard document model that defines syntax to enrich text pages with structural and layout information. The dynamic modification to structure, layout and content of an HTML document are allowed using a scripting language which is known as DHTML (Dynamic HyperText Markup Language). SMIL is the web format for multimedia document, which is based on XML (extensible Markup Language). Driven by the use of the text markup tags in the multimedia do...

Proceedings of Smart Graphics, 2001

Layout refers to the process of determining the sizes and positions of the visual objects that are part of an information presentation. Automated layout refers to the use of a computer program to automate either all or part of the layout process. This field of research lies at the crossroads between artificial intelligence and human computer interaction. Automated layout of presentations is becoming increasingly important as the amount of data that we need to present rapidly overtakes our ability to present it manually. We survey and ...

2005

Documents are typically marked up to enable rendering and to facilitate reuse. However, retargetting a document often requires pervasive changes to the markup. Power et al. have proposed a new level of representation called document structure which captures just those aspects of graphical organisation that are significant for conveying meaning. These document structures can be generated automatically from rhetorical structures, abstract representations of the meaning of a text. The mapping is highly indeterminate, being governed by a large number of interacting constraints. We present a constraint programming approach to the problem, and report on early experiments with an implementation in Prolog.