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We describe the design and implementation of an extensible document formatter whose architecture consists of components for formatting tasks and of a framework for managing the components.
The system aims to facilitate a seamless integration of new formatting functions, presentation media, and interaction methods. It works on so-called design structures that represent a generically-coded document after a design specification has been applied. A design structure is a hierarchy of highly specialized interacting layout objects, each of which encapsulates a formatting task. In order to use an instance of a layout object class in a design structure, the layout object class has to be plugged into the formatter framework.
The formatter framework accepts any layout object class that adheres to a welldefined interface specification.
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Bretthauer, T., Brüggemann-Klein, A., Hermann, S., Klein, R. (1998). A component architecture for cross-media formatters. In: Hersch, R.D., André, J., Brown, H. (eds) Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography. RIDT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1375. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053290
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