RE: XyWrites 4 and 5 (was: RE: Dataviz and xyW)

["Frank Kenneth B." KBF@xxxxxxxx]

You're right that such an enhancement would probably be relatively easy, but
I'm not sure what it would accomplish. If we didn't attempt to process any
of the commands I doubt that the text without any visible tags would mean
very much.

All of the visible structure of an HTML document, as well as any hyperlinks,
graphics, etc., is determined by the tags. If we suppress the tags and
don't process them (and don't of course have any of our commands in the
file) I suspect the file would be a mess to look at. Just switch back and
forth between a reasonably complex HTML file in one window, and a copy of
that same file in another window where you have done a search and replace to
remove all the tags, and see what it looks like.

What do others think?

K.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Giering [mailto:dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 1999 1:23 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: XyWrites 4 and 5 (was: RE: Dataviz and xyW)


Ref to Ken Frank's answer on this subject:

Hi Ken:
 Thanks for your comments ... this is not to
start or continue a "great debate", BUT I believe
a single enhancement - which I can't see as being
so technologically difficult - would be an
additional display mode ONLY. The mode would be
the same as Draft mode, but with ALL angle
bracketed commands (including the end command)
buried within a square similar to the XYWrite
commands being embedded in a triangle.
 If, as I assume, this is a relatively simple
(cost and technological) enhancement), it should
GO A LONG WAY to answering the question of whether
there is a market out there and, if there is,
justify investment OR NOT. Without some action
such as this everything we say on our end and you
say on your end is equally supposition.
 No need to decipher links, bolds, underlines,
tables, lists, et al. These could come later
AFTER the investment is or is not justified.
Thanks for letting me spout off!
Dick Giering

"Frank Kenneth B." wrote:
>
> I don't want to start up a whole debate, but it's worth making the
following > points:
>
> 1. Making XyWrite into a HTML editor is anything but a minor enhancement.
> "strip" ...