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- Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1994 11:04:18 +0100
- From: Gerd Castan <castan@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- To: gem-list@world.std.com
- Message-Id: <0097FA46.98061820.19213@cip.physik.uni-stuttgart.de>
- Subject: Re: Proposal v5
- Precedence: bulk
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-
- Hello all,
-
- >I was discussing block operations with a good friend of mine who is a
- >professor in the Computer Science department of the University of South
- >Florida.
- >
- >We discussed the two systems of handling text blocks. The big-cursor
- >system, and the one where the block is independant of the cursor.
- When we talk about text blocks, we should have in mind, that text blocks
- can be discontinuous!
- papyrus handles text blocks this way. It is very straight forward and it
- makes text handling very easy.
- An example: in the font selector you can say:
- "mark all passages with font=times, but don't consider font face or size"
- Now you have a discontinuous block and you can copy it or cange font to
- swiss (and - if you want - leave the face information (bold, italic...)
- as it is).
- This works even with speedo.
-
- And now a proposal for the style of the proposal (call it meta proposal):
- It should contain the information _why_ something is proposed as it is and
- what we have to consider when we talk about it.
- And it should contain alternative proposals.
-
- In the case of block operations: Have discontinuous blocks in mind.
-
- Gerd
-