From: bagwill@swe.ncsl.nist.gov (Bob Bagwill) Subject: Re: Let's write a wordprocessor. Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 15:05:30 GMT
Here's what is already being worked on:
With the TCL/Tk canvas widget you can tag text and set appearance
attributes. You can do a PostScript dump of the contents of the
canvas. Joe Wang <joe@athena.mit.edu> is working on a WWW HTML editor
for his TkWWW browser. This allows you to set tags for text (like
<TITLE> or <ADDRESS>) and will write out text with the appropriate HTML
SGML tags. Gary Houston <ghouston@stats.govt.nz> has written a SGML
formatter, that will read several SGML DTDs, the marked-up text, and
output ASCII (like nroff), LaTex, or RTF. I believe he's added
support for HTML in his formatter.
So there you go. A rudimentary WYSIWYG editor that will print
PostScript directly, and outputs text with standard markups
that can be formatted in ASCII, LaTeX, or RTF. If you don't
like SGML, you could replace with HTML markups in the editor
with LaTeX, or the high-level macro language of your choice.