TEMPEST: A Template Editor for Structured Text

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Title: en_US TEMPEST: A Template Editor for Structured Text
Creator: en_US Sterpe, Peter J.
Date: 2004-10-20T20:10:17Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:10:17Z
Date Issued: en_US 1985-06-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-843
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6951
Abstract: en_US TEMPEST is a full-screen text editor that incorporates a structural paradigm in addition to the more traditional textual paradigm provided by most editors. While the textual paradigm treats the text as a sequence of characters, the structural paradigm treats it as a collection of named blocks which the user can define, group, and manipulate. Blocks can be defined to correspond to the structural features of he text, thereby providing more meaningful objects to operate on than characters of lines. The structural representation of the text is kept in the background, giving TEMPEST the appearance of a typical text editor. The structural and textual interfaces coexist equally, however, so one can always operate on the text from wither point of view. TEMPEST's representation scheme provides no semantic understanding of structure. This approach sacrifices depth, but affords a broad range of applicability and requires very little computational overhead. A prototype has been implemented to illustrate the feasibility and potential areas of application of the central ideas. It was developed and runs on an IBM Personal Computer.
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-843

Item sets: AI Technical Reports (1964 - 2004)