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Re: Emacs as word processor
From: |
PJ Weisberg |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Nov 2013 00:13:45 -0800 |
On Nov 23, 2013 5:44 AM, "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> 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?
- Re: Emacs as word processor, (continued)
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Lennart Borgman, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Jambunathan K, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, John Yates, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/22
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor,
PJ Weisberg <=
- RE: Emacs as word processor, Drew Adams, 2013/11/24
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2013/11/25
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/20
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Allen S. Rout, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Tom, 2013/11/21
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/22