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Sight - A Tool For Building Multi-Media Structured-Document Interactive Editing And Formatting Applications, Robert F. Gordon Ph.D., George B. Leeman Jr, Christian L. Cesar, Mark A. Martin

Faculty Works: MCS (1984-2023)

SIGHT is a tool for building applications that edit and format multi-media structured documents. The media supported include text, line graphics, handwriting, images and audio. These information media are maintained in a single integrated hierarchical database. The document architecture models documents as trees in which nodes can be shared, i.e., as directed acyclic graphs. For each document there is a logical (or abstract) represention tree and one or more physical (or layout) representation trees. A physical representation is the result of applying the formatter to a logical representation. Both trees are separate but share document content data. The physical representation …