From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Higher level document rendering and editing (Was From: "Federico G. Benavento" Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:36:21 -0200 In-Reply-To: <12912eb6-1818-48ff-90ba-b8d5718c3800@d4g2000prg.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3baf490e-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 >> I'd like to point out, though, that the P9 synthetic filesystem is a >> preferable abstraction to a specialised library and in this particular >> instance, I would present a complex, marked-up document specifically >> as a collection of files in such a synthetic filesystem. > that's what aux/olefs does with MS Office documents, doc2txt and xls2txt are scripts that mount the doc in /mnt/doc and use helper programs to read files in there. > Groovy. For some time already I am considering bundles of files and > directories as a method of structuring a complex document, and this by > no means is not new to the world, though. There is also structural > regular expressions, which can describe two-dimensional patterns (and > describe tables!).