From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!ucbvax!C70:editor-people Newsgroups: fa.editor-p Title: editor-formatter query Article-I.D.: ucb.1652 Posted: Sat Jul 31 03:23:58 1982 Received: Sun Aug 1 01:02:15 1982 >From decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!alee@Berkeley Sat Jul 31 03:10:31 1982 It was suggested to me that this query may be of interest to editor-p. It has been circulated around USENET under various netgroups. If possible, could replies be sent to me directly? I would like to get some feedback about work that is being done on interactive editor-formatters. Specifically, I am interested in views on a number of issues which I have listed below. 1) There have been a number of articles discussing the interface of several of these interactive editor-formatters (abbreviated as i.e-f) which are currently under development at various academic and research institutions. I am especially interested in those that are being designed for office workstations although this should not deter response to more general i.e-f. Can people out there give me some ideas about progress in these and other i.e-f (e.g. ETUDE (MIT), PEN (Yale), POLITE (IBM), STAR (Xerox)) since last year. 2) Many of the above i.e-f utilize a hierarchical data structure which is central to edit, format, and display operations. I would like to know whether other data structures (e.g. graph) have been considered in other systems. If so, which ones and why? Systems using hiearchical data structures: how difficult are they to implement and what kind of response times or performance times are you getting? 3) Most literature that I have read has been relatively high-level. I would like to get some pointers to literature concerning redisplay techniques, formatting schemes, representation, and window management for high resolution bit mapped displays. Views and experiences with designing, developing, and using these i.e-f systems will also be appreciated. Also, pointers to more recent articles (this year) describing abovementioned i.e-f and others will also be appreciated. I have just recently become interested in i.e-f and apologize for my lack of knowledge. Hopefully, this will help me to become aware of recent developments. Please respond by mailing directly to me (path is provided). If there are enough respondents or interest, I will post a summary as well as a bibliography of papers I get. Thank you ucbvax!decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!alee (I think!!!)