On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 09:51:39PM +0200, Felix Breuer wrote: > But a lot of the > parameters for generating the data (e.g. function plots, graphs, > simplicial complexes, tilings of the plane...) should be entered > textually or through widgets instead of by "point-and-click"-means. Also > I might want to give the user a hierarchical view of the document - best > present by a tree view...
Capabilities such as 'output-dstruct' are exactly for this kind of things. The line between a "document" and "auxiliary data" may sometimes be a bit vague, and in some cases both approaches may be reasonable (e.g. browsers' bookmarks). One rule of thumb could be: is there any sense in representing the data as a menu system? If not, then it is a document and should be displayed on a canvas. -- Tuomo
