To Do

Papers

(We need both white papers and scientific publications)

• Topics
  • Overview
    • Comparison with other approaches
  • Requirements
    • Comparison with other approaches
  • Architecture
• Journals to be considered
  • Informatie
  • IEEE Computer
  • ACM Transactions on ...
  • SCP (for very formal things)
• Conferences to be considered

Research proposals

• STW
  • Concentrate on XML aspect?
    • talk to Gert van der Steen about potential utilizers
  • Some other killer app?
    • talk to other people in department for suggestions
    • joint proposal?
• Jacquard
  • DSLs?
  • Link Stratego--Proxima?
    • talk to Eelco Visser
• NWO Open Competition 2006
• Veni 2007

Web site

• Make more atractive and informative
  • White papers
  • Screen shots (current link is broken)
  • Posters
  • News
  • More documentation (manuals!)

PR

• Simple usable applications, available through web site
  • Folding outline editor?
  • AG editor
  • ...
• Accessible publications

Long-term strategy

• Open source?
  • Need some kind of user community
  • Therefore need some nice application

ProximaDocumentation project

• Graph support
• Multiple windows
• Simple word-processor editing
• File handling
• Undo

Prototype

(required-time estimates to be added)

• Architecture

• Evaluation
  • Document edit formalism

• Presentation
  • Matrix support
  • Menus
  • Excellent support for formatters
  • Special treatment of squiggly lines
  • Split window panes/multiple windows
  • Popups & Dialogs

• Parser
  • Support for showing parse errors
  • Using proxima for word-processor text
  • Add error correcting parser

• Scanner
  • Support for strings, different kinds of identifiers, etc.
  • AG-based scanner that uses regular expression description of tokens.

• Layout
  • Change management (dirty bits) in layout editing

• Generator
  • Rewrite generator and fix bugs

• Editing behavior
  • Volatile placeholders
  • Resting places
  • Automatic parsing/evaluation (instead of pressing F1&F2)
  • Integrate Document and Presentation foci
  • Document focus should cover ranges instead of only tree paths
  • Recover focus after transformations (store focus as extra state in layout nodes?)
  • Drag and drop

• Basic editor functionality
  • Search/replace

• Proxima.klad.Incrementality
  • Arranger
    • Only arrange modified parts of layout level. May require special fast row and column elements in presentation.
  • Layouter
    • Only rescan modified parts of presentation

• Diagram editing

• XML
  • Read/Write XML files
  • Handle DTD's (and Schemas?)
  • (Partial) support for invalid documents

• Build a more exciting example editor

• Future
  • Generalized paste
  • Ligatures (one symbol for "ff" & "fi"), Kerning (eg. reduced space between "VA")
  • Editing "dineetje"/"diner- tje" etc.
  • Cycles in presentation process (eg. page refs that keep changing)
  • Optimal table layout (table without width/height info formatted in minimal space)

-- MartijnSchrage - 26 Sep 2007