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VORTEX (Visually-ORiented TEX) is a TEX-based document preparation environment being developed at Berkeley. The system will have three major features: (1) Both source and target representations of a document will be maintained and displayed. Changes made to one representation will propagate to the other automatically. (2) It will reformat and redisplay a document incrementally. (3) A high degree of interactivity and a good user interface will be provided. Our approach is to derive an internal representation based on which transformations between source and target can be realized efficiently. This paper describes the objectives and motivations of the project. An outline of the internal representation as well as VORTEX's basic functionalities and user interface is presented.
This work has been sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant MCS-8311787 and by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DoD), ARPA Order No. 4871, monitored by Naval Electronic Systems Command, under Contract No. N00039-84-C-0089. Additional support was provided by the State of California MICRO program under grant number 532422-19900.
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Chen, P., Coker, J., Harrison, M.A., McCarrell, J.W., Procter, S. (1986). The VORTEX document preparation environment. In: Désarménien, J. (eds) TEX for Scientific Documentation. TeX 1986. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 236. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022691
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