cfry@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (C.Fry - Inst. Computer Research) (02/16/89)
ICR presents a colloquium on
HiTeX Revisited
by
Dr. Anne Brueggemann-Klein
of
Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Freiburg, FRG
Abstract
Today scientific authors rely on a wide range of document pro-
cessing systems, both for internal communication and for provid-
ing publishers with camera-ready copy. Current systems free au-
thors from the burden of detailed typographic knowledge and let
them concentrate on the contents of their documents. These sys-
tems have led to the notion of descriptive markup systems and
standards for markup languages such as SGML. In principle, docu-
ments employing descriptive markup can be matched to different
design specifications that determine their graphical layout.
However, in practice little attention has been paid to how this
should be done, and how traditional design specifications provid-
ed by document designers can be easily implemented in existing
document processing systems.
HiTeX is a prototype system that we intend to develop during my
visit in Waterloo. Its aim is to help designers to implement do-
cument designs for formatters like TeX. This talk describes the
basic ideas of interfacing an SGML-like document specification
language with a design specification language and a special set
of TeX macros.
DATE: Wednesday, February 22, 1989
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
PLACE: DC 1302
Everyone is welcome. Refreshments served.