At 12:10 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
a user interface to processing tex docs, based on pdf, controlled by a tex-applet; think of entering your letter text and data in a form, pushing a button and getting a letter back (this is just one application, we also use it to make enveloppes and alike); click and point layout options, etc; works quite well; to tease you again, this is just part of a bigger game -)
Hmm...interesting indeed! Just to prod a bit more, though, what kind of UI, and entered into what kind "form"? I won't ask about the "bigger game" :-)
i let tex generate a document with fields that a user can fill in; that way you get a platform independent interface; the submits this data to a servlet, which, based on the embedded request, takes some action; after a while a pdf doc is send back; the document is (yet) coded in tex (rather high level interface macros), the request specific scripts are coded in xml as is the whole environment in which this takes place; communication takes place in xml as well. [i may add an xml user interface to the tex part as well, when i'm in the mood]
This may or may not be relevant, but any chance as you work on this stuff XML might enter the picture as an alternate coding approach?
xml already has entered the picture since we use it for processing tex and xml docs Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------