From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9911 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Automating a letter module style Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:23:57 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021125181735.027ece20@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021125175341.02d14330@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1038245137 13146 80.91.224.249 (25 Nov 2002 17:25:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:25:37 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18GMzG-0003Pq-00 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:25:34 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548CE10AEA; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:27:39 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896C810AE7 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:26:28 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAPIKw7K010692 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:20:59 +0100 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gAPHQQgg026369 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:26:26 +0100 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9911 At 12:10 PM 11/25/2002 -0500, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: >On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 11:58 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: > >>a user interface to processing tex docs, based on pdf, controlled by a >>tex-applet; think of entering your letter text and data in a form, >>pushing a button and getting a letter back (this is just one application, >>we also use it to make enveloppes and alike); click and point layout >>options, etc; works quite well; to tease you again, this is just part of >>a bigger game -) > >Hmm...interesting indeed! Just to prod a bit more, though, what kind of >UI, and entered into what kind "form"? I won't ask about the "bigger game" :-) i let tex generate a document with fields that a user can fill in; that way you get a platform independent interface; the submits this data to a servlet, which, based on the embedded request, takes some action; after a while a pdf doc is send back; the document is (yet) coded in tex (rather high level interface macros), the request specific scripts are coded in xml as is the whole environment in which this takes place; communication takes place in xml as well. [i may add an xml user interface to the tex part as well, when i'm in the mood] >This may or may not be relevant, but any chance as you work on this stuff >XML might enter the picture as an alternate coding approach? xml already has entered the picture since we use it for processing tex and xml docs Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------