Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-24 Thread Robby Findler
It is part of racket. The text% class does what he described. Robby On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Mathew Kurian wrote: > Hey guys...those were all excellent answers and helped greatly. > However, it seems that Matthew Flatt's descriptions were a bit more > consistent with what i had in mind.

Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-23 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Mathew Kurian wrote at 08/23/2010 09:26 PM: With this said, can anyone give me an example of the program implementing what Matthew Flatt had described. It does not necessarily have to fit exactly with the description, but something that points toward that direction. Have you seen the "Plugins

Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-23 Thread Mathew Kurian
Hey guys...those were all excellent answers and helped greatly. However, it seems that Matthew Flatt's descriptions were a bit more consistent with what i had in mind. With this said, can anyone give me an example of the program implementing what Matthew Flatt had described. It does not necessaril

Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-23 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 22 Aug 2010 21:58:36 -0500, Mathew Kurian wrote: > 1. In a text editor like Microsoft Word, in what form do they hold all the > text that a person types (a single large string or just an appendable > textbox that stores the data till the end)? > 2. If Dr.Racket holds text in a textbox-like

Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-22 Thread Mark Engelberg
I don't know how DrRacket is implemented, but you might want to look at this article for ideas about ways to represent strings in a manner that allows for efficient editing: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/reading/proceedings/spe91-95/spe/vol25/issue12/spe986.pdf

Re: [racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-22 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Mathew Kurian wrote at 08/22/2010 10:58 PM: 1. In a text editor like Microsoft Word, in what form do they hold all the text that a person types (a single large string or just an appendable textbox that stores the data till the end)? There are several different approaches for conventional tex

[racket] text formatting questions

2010-08-22 Thread Mathew Kurian
Hey guys, How are yall doing? Hope everybody is swell. Its been a while since i last posted a question, but i have few new questions popping up. Recently, I was trying to make a text editor type thing (i.e. Wordpad) and as usual I was bombarded with that same confusion and questions most amateur