pop@cs.umass.edu (Robin Popplestone) (06/13/90)
Pantechnicon, or `Lets suppose the Inmost Secrets of Emacs, Tex and
Hypercard Lie Open to Programmers'.
Robin J. Popplestone
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 01003 USA
pop@cs.umass.edu
ABSTRACT
This paper describes the development of an environment, Pantechnicon, which
provides for the active display of information predominantly in the typeset
paradigm familiar to users of TEX. Pantechnicon provides an editing
environment which allows users to compose a document in a manner similar to
EMACS, but extended by the ability to compose technical matter such as
mathematics, tables or figures using a technical keyboard which appears in a
window and is mouse-activated. The internal form of the document is
manipulable by programmers in Common Lisp, ML, POP-11 and Prolog, running
under the POPLOG system. Functions written in these languages can be
associated with a displayed object as scripts, making the document active with
Hypertext like qualities. The system is designed so that the incremental
operations associated with editing have O(log n) time complexity, so that
it scales appropriately to treat large documents.
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