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Proxima
---+++ 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)
     
-- Main.MartijnSchrage - 26 Sep 2007