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Beyond Pretty-Printing: Galley Concepts in Document Formatting Combinators

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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 1999)

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Galleys have been introduced by Jeff Kingston as one of the key concepts underlying his advanced document formatting system Lout. Although Lout is built on a lazy functional programming language, galley concepts are implemented as part of that language and defined only informally.

In this paper we present a first formalisation of document formatting combinators using galley concepts in the purely functional programming language Haskell.

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  1. Institut für Softwaretechnologie, Fakultät für Informatik, Universität der Bundeswehr München, D-85577, Neubiberg, Germany

    Wolfram Kahl

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  1. Department of Computer Science, New Mexico State University, Box 30001, New Science Hall (MS CS) Stewart Street, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA

    Gopal Gupta

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Kahl, W. (1998). Beyond Pretty-Printing: Galley Concepts in Document Formatting Combinators. In: Gupta, G. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1551. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49201-1_6

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