Lout ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/lout/index.php?title=Main_Page ) has a very interesting design for text layout. It is in fact a DSL for page layout, and a quirky but powerful one at that. Even so he has a good discussion of handling regions of text and larger structures such as pages and documents.
The Design and Implementation of the Lout Document Formatting Language http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.36.9234 The author Jeffrey Kingston is slowly working on a successor called Nonpareil, for which he is designing a suitable functional language on top of which to build the new page layout language. You might find some inspiring ideas in his work. Monty _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
