Internals of VORTEX: The Source Editor

Abstract

VORTEX[2] is a source-based interactive document preparation, system built on the TEX typesetting language[4], which allows some of the functions of direct-manipulation systems as well. This report describes the editor portion of the prototype system as currently implemented. VORTEX is an interactive system based on TEX. TEX allows finer control and produces higher quality typesetting than the other systems commonly available on UNIX. VORTEX makes these features more accessible through integration with a powerful editor, an incremental TEX processor and a what-you-see-is-what-you-get output displayer. The first version of VORTEX is nearly finished and has shown us what problems our early assumptions and the design have produced. This document describes the internals of the system from the point of view of the VORTEX source editor (the user interface). Since VORTEX is written in three separate pieces, this paper does not describe the architecture of the entire system. However, it does document most of the interfaces within the system.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 04, 1988
Accession Number
ADA619794

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