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From: jqj@cornell.UUCP (J Q Johnson)
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Subject: Re: embedded-command text systems
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 08:49:40 EST
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In article <338@bdaemon.UUCP> carl@bdaemon.UUCP (carl) writes:
>In support of Brian's contention, could anyone point me (us) to a WYSIWG
>tool that will produce the table on page 17 of Lesk's 'tbl' paper?
>
>Carl Brandauer

See Beach, Richard J., @b[Setting Tables and Illustrations with Style].
PhD. Dissertation, University of Waterloo, 1985.  Beach describes his work
at Xerox PARC extending wysiwyg systems (Tioga) to support more graphical
style attributes, and in particular to support composition of complex tables.

I don't know how to obtain a copy of the thesis, I'm afraid; maybe U.
Microfilms or mail to U. of Waterloo Dept. of Computer Science.  The particular
system isn't wildly impressive, though it does handle the Lesk example.
But Beach has good general discussion and references.