Re: Emacs as word processor

[PJ Weisberg]

On Nov 23, 2013 5:44 AM, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <address@hidden>
> >> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 23:53:40 +0100

> >> What I'm asking, is what you do once the user specified a DTD containing
> >> elements such as: <xlorf>, <grlyb> and <ashur>?  How do you edit them?
> >
> > I have no idea what these are or why would the user need to edit them.
>
> Exactly my point.
>
> The user specified <xlorf> as a structuring element for his kind of
> documents, and you and emacs don't know what it means, and how it should
> represented in a WYSIWIG way and how it should be manipulated from a
> WYSIWIG view.
>
> Nonetheless, a structure editor can edit them, adding <xlorf> nodes and
> childrens, as specified by the user-supplied DTD.
>
> That's why it seems obvious to me, once we've specified that we allowed
> users to supply their own DTD, that we need to provide an explicit set
> of commands to edit the structure of the document, in additionnal to the
> usual text editing command set translated to usual structure editing.

In the context of a WYSIWYG word processor, why in god's name would the user be specifying a DTD?