Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 01:05:50 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Thot (WYSIWIG editor) for you? Message-ID: <199705140805.BAA03496@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 23:57:36 PDT." <33796260.1A2C@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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I am not sure where you are coming from ;however, you are free to write a ports wrapper for Thot and Amaya. As for the thot library, yeap it is a good thing to have around . It is nice to have such a library written in C as supposed to C++. How much of that library am I going to use ? I don't know is not clear to me . At lot depends on the architecture of the program. If we use Glyphs , I supposed that we can use a lot of the library given that the Glyph structure allows us to abstract objects: characters, lines, columns, pages, documents. For sure the algorithms used in Thot are worth looking into. What I am pitching is for is that if Thot is good we can start advertising it and hopefully standardize our internal documentation based on its format. Internal documentation meaning things like : reports, articles, etc... >From The Desk Of "Pedro F. Giffuni" : > Sure it must be tested in scope and stability, but that shouldn't stop > us from porting it, or at least submitting patches to INRIA. > If it is not what we (you) expect form it, we can do what Amaya does and > use Thot's library to implement a "better" tool. > Amaya is valuable for it's own reasons: I PR'd sometime ago that Arena > signalled "Bad HTML" on at least one page of our documentation project. > Having an standard tool (even if it's beta) is very important. > > Pedro. > > > Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > > Before even on deciding on a separate CDrom distribution , it is more > > appropriate to decide whether thot is useful or not. On the surface > > it looks really good , I just have to use thot more extensively over > > here to determine is goodness. > > > > Cheers, > > Amancio > >
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