RE: [XP] langages scientifique, substitution automatique

[Robert Keeble <RKeeble@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry Bouche [mailto:Thierry.Bouche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 3:21 AM
> To: typographie@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [XP] langages scientifique, substitution automatique
> 
> 
> » Pour moi, la substitution et la recherche, c'est le même problème. 
> 
> Pas pour moi ! la substitution doit laisser le texte sous-jacent tel
> quel et ne s'appliquer que sur les sorties graphiques en fonction d'un
> certain nombre de réglages, le recherche-remplace modifie le texte
> sous-jacent.

I think if style sheets are made more sophisticated, you would both be
happy. Suppose style sheets included the smarts to apply rules like:
"Wherever a word ends in the letter 'e', show swash variant 'e' #3";
"Wherever the word 'etc' appears, show glyphic variant #1 for et cetera"
...
(I'm not suggesting the rules should should look like this, or use natural
language, or *anything* about an implementation; these are just for the sake
of argument.)

The underlying text is unchanged because the presentation is created at
runtime. And all the usual benefits of style sheets -- minimal overhead in
document size, easy to change, copy, or append, no search/replace needed
when you modify a style sheet, etc, etc, blah blah blah. If you need more
convincing arguments, read about XML and XSL.


Robert Keeble
Quark, Inc.

*As a footnote, most of the things XP4 search/replace ("Find/Change" in
Quark-speak) are styling, not content.
[ text / style sheet / font / font size / type style (bold, etc) ]