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From: jxr@thumper.bellcore.com (Jonathan Rosenberg)
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Subject: Re: Status and availability of Quill, REXX???
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Date: 24 Jun 91 21:35:22 GMT
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From: dml@esl.com (Denis Lynch)
Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml,comp.text
Subject: Status and availability of Quill, REXX???
Date: 24 Jun 91 17:06:20 GMT

> The latest issue of IEEE Computer Magazine has a very good article
> on a two-view text editor called Lilac. (The views are a WYSIWYG
> and a functional programming language, both of which can be edited
> and directly affect the other.)

> That article very briefly describes an editor called Quill, which
> is based on SGML and a format description language REXX.

> Can anybody tell me how to find out more about these things?

Quill is a research system built at IBM Almaden Research Center. 
Unfortunately, I can't find any references to it at the moment, but the
person to talk to is Donald Chamberlain.  Call information in Palo Alto
& get the number at IBM Research.

> Do they still exist? Are they available (commercially or otherwise)?
> Are they as interesting as they sound?

Quill is  a very neat system.

> Thanks for the help,

You're welcome.

> --Denis Lynch, ESL Inc.

JR