On 23-Oct-98 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>>>> "Jose" == Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>>> writes:
>>> You say that becuase you assume that you know what is the object
>>> called 'Quote' and the object called 'Section' and you know about
>>> some constraints, and you assume that these constraints will apply
>>> to *any* documentclass (we don't want to support only article).
>
> Jose> First, my interpretation of Allan statement was: there will be
> Jose> a text file, where the pre-parsed structure will be. LyX will
> Jose> simply load it in run-time, not compile-time, and from there
> Jose> using an API will know the document structure.
>
> That's not what I thought when I read his message... But if we can do
> this pre-parsing, why not write directly our structure description in
> the medium-level language, then?
As long as you can read that easily, that's fine.
I'm not a computer (I'm sure you know that ;) but every time I write
docbook and I don't know if some tag is enabled inside another instead of
reading the dtd I simply consult the html version of the reference manual for
docbook. There it says for each tag which elements are allowed and which are
disallowed anywhere inside that tag.
What I was trying to do was to replicate this human behaviour inside the
computer, at least it makes sense to me :). But I'm sure that are better
(more efficient) ways to do this with the computer.
This mechanism could also be optional.
> Hmm, I am really lost here. Allan, could you explain once more what
> you meant? Hmm, he can't: he must have gone to bed at this time...
Good dreams :)
> JMarc
Jos�
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Jos� Ab�lio de Oliveira Matos
Date: 23-Oct-98 : Time: 14:30:40 GMT
"Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing
that way."
