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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:04:13 -0500
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
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> Given a rendering engine with a powerful and hopefully flexible input
> language, one may be able to write compilers or interpreters for the
> more popular brands.  Or am I missing the wood for the trees?
> 

i think you're right on the mark.  suppose that acme and rio were built
on "liblayout" and not libframe.  liblayout provides a basic boxes-n-glue
view of the world; acme/rio export /dev/layout.  a box could contain an image or a
text frame.  then acme could display things like images along with text,
static html content (given an educated htmlfmt), etc.

- erik