Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: Document Abstraction (was: what is a word processor) Message-ID: Date: 28 Jul 89 03:13:12 GMT References: <20306@adm.BRL.MIL> <26558@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <18681@mimsy.UUCP> <8735@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <1438@l.cc.purdue.edu> <946@csv.viccol.edu.au> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 9 In-reply-to: dougcc@csv.viccol.edu.au's message of 26 Jul 89 04:02:30 GMT there was a recent tech report from DEC-SRC on a ``two view'' text processing system that does just what you describe: keep two views, one textual, the other graphical, in synch. You can change either one (I think) and have it reflected in the other. too bad that it's written in modula3 and only runs on Topaz [I asked]. -- Dirk Grunwald -- Univ. of Illinois (grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu)