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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Building GCC
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:23:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79854fa2b750b211cc6d3a8582aac166@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <71fd6cec90c740459a336a7cc3048b9f@quanstro.net>

>> 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.

How far away is abaco from all this?  My impression is that it at
least aims in that direction.  Thing is, it always struck me that
abaco and acme ought to be blended, not constructed independently of
each other.

But I must confess that I'm still too scared to look under the larger
Plan 9 applications, I accept them as they come.

++L


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-24 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 124+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-20 20:08 [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 20:57 ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-20 21:05   ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 22:22     ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-20 23:41       ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:44         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-20 23:47           ` benavento
2008-01-20 23:50             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:09               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 14:39                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 15:01                 ` Kernel Panic
2008-01-21 16:02                 ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-21 20:54                   ` Steve Simon
2008-01-21 21:58                     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:47                     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-21 22:59                       ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-21 23:25                       ` Fazlul Shahriar
2008-01-21 23:31                         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22  0:39                           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 12:15                       ` Russ Cox
2008-01-22 12:38                         ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-22 13:09                           ` lucio
2008-01-22 15:03                           ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 15:37                             ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-23  9:35                               ` [9fans] " pavlovetsky
2008-01-23 11:15                                 ` Harri Haataja
2008-01-24  9:41                                   ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 10:05                                     ` Steve Simon
2008-01-24 10:44                                       ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:05                                         ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 15:14                                           ` benavento
2008-01-24 15:51                                         ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:12                                           ` benavento
2008-01-25  9:55                                         ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-24 16:55                                       ` Uriel
2008-01-24 11:19                                     ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 11:24                                       ` Christopher Nielsen
2008-01-24 11:48                                         ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 12:46                                           ` mattmobile
2008-01-24 13:23                                             ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 15:37                                       ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04                                         ` ron minnich
2008-01-24 18:06                                           ` andrey mirtchovski
2008-01-24 18:15                                             ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:19                                           ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:38                                             ` Paulo Pocinho
2008-01-24 18:44                                               ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:01                                               ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:50                                       ` Joel C. Salomon
2008-01-24 19:04                                         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:52                                           ` Russ Cox
2008-01-25  9:56                                             ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2008-01-25 12:19                                               ` Martin Neubauer
2008-01-24 13:38                                     ` tlaronde
2008-01-23 14:17                                 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 16:13                                   ` ron minnich
2008-01-23 16:57                                     ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-23 17:36                                     ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-23 18:26                                       ` Uriel
2008-01-24  9:59                                   ` sqweek
2008-01-24 17:21                                     ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:04                                       ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 18:21                                         ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 18:37                                           ` lucio
2008-01-24 22:16                                             ` Gary Wright
2008-01-25  2:47                                             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25  3:21                                               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25  6:08                                               ` lucio
2008-01-24 18:52                                           ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:09                                             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:27                                               ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-24 19:38                                                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 21:26                                                   ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2008-01-25  9:55                                                 ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 14:14                                                   ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 14:26                                                     ` Brantley Coile
2008-01-25 17:49                                                       ` Bakul Shah
2008-01-25 18:09                                                         ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:29                                                           ` John Floren
2008-01-25 19:12                                                             ` lucio
2008-01-25 19:38                                                             ` Bakul Shah
2008-01-25 20:04                                                               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-01-26  2:28                                                             ` dave.l
2008-01-26  3:08                                                               ` John Floren
2008-01-26  3:17                                                                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-28  3:11                                                                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-28  3:34                                                                   ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-25 18:32                                                           ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:15                                                         ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25 18:30                                                           ` lucio
2008-01-25 18:17                                                         ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-25 18:19                                                         ` John Floren
2008-01-25 14:35                                                     ` [9fans] importing web browsers (was Building GCC) Charles Forsyth
2008-01-25 14:45                                                       ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 17:50                                                         ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:47                                                           ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-26 15:50                                                             ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-25 16:17                                                     ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 18:04                                                     ` lucio
2008-01-26 15:29                                                       ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-24 19:13                                             ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-24 19:18                                             ` lucio
2008-01-24 19:26                                               ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-25  9:56                                             ` pavlovetsky
2008-01-25 11:21                                               ` lucio
2008-01-25 14:07                                                 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-25 18:43                                                   ` [9fans] Higher level document rendering and editing (Was: Building GCC) lucio
2008-01-28 10:04                                                   ` [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was pavlovetsky
2008-01-28 10:36                                                     ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-01-24 18:23                                         ` lucio [this message]
2008-01-25 10:00                                         ` [9fans] Re: Building GCC pavlovetsky
2008-01-22 17:15                           ` [9fans] " Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:19                             ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 18:28                               ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-01-22 18:37                                 ` Iruata Souza
2008-01-22 13:26                         ` John Stalker
2008-01-22 16:35                         ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:00                           ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:07                             ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:18                               ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2008-01-22 17:25                               ` ron minnich
2008-01-22 17:46                                 ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:07                           ` erik quanstrom
2008-01-22 17:15                             ` ron minnich

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