The Languages of Thot

• The document model of Thot
  • The logical structure of documents
  • Generic and specific structures
  • Logical structure and physical structure
  • Document structures and object structures
• The S language
  • Document meta-structure
    • The basic types
    • Constructed elements
    • Logical structure constructors
      • Aggregate and List
      • Choice, Schema, and Unit
      • Reference and Inclusion
      • Mark pairs
      • Restrictions and Extensions
      • Summary
    • Associated Elements
    • Attributes
    • Discussion of the model
  • The definition language for generic structures
    • Writing Conventions
    • Extension schemas
    • The general organization of structure schemas
    • The default presentation
    • Global Attributes
    • Parameters
    • Structured elements
    • Structure definitions
      • List
      • Aggregate
      • Choice
      • Reference
      • Mark pairs
    • Imports
    • Extension rules
    • Associated elements
    • Units
    • Skeleton elements
    • Exceptions
  • Some examples
    • A class of documents: articles
    • A class of objects: mathematical formulas
• The P Language
  • Document presentation
    • Two levels of presentation
    • Boxes
    • Views and visibility
    • Pages
    • Numbering
    • Presentation parameters
  • Presentation description language
    • The organization of a presentation schema
    • Views
    • Print Views
    • Counters
    • Presentation constants
    • Variables
    • Default presentation rules
    • Presentation and page layout boxes
    • Presentation of structured elements
    • Logical attribute presentation
    • Value transmission rules
    • Presentation rules
    • Conditions applying to presentation rules
      • Conditions based on the logical position of the element
      • Conditions on references
      • Conditions on logical attributes
      • Conditions on page breaks
      • Conditions on the element's content
      • Conditions on counters
    • A presentation rule
    • Box axes
    • Distance units
    • Relative positions
    • Box extents
      • Fixed extents
      • Relative extents
      • Elastic extents
    • Overflow
    • Inheritance
    • Line breaking
      • Line spacing
      • First line indentation
      • Alignment
      • Justification
      • Hyphenation
      • Avoiding line breaking
    • Page breaking and line breaking conditions
    • Visibility
    • Character style parameters
      • Character size
      • Font and character style
      • Underlining
    • Stacking order
    • Line style
    • Line thickness
    • Fill pattern
    • Colors
    • Background color and border
    • Background pictures
    • Presentation box content
    • Presentation box creation
    • Page layout
    • Box copies
• The T language
  • Document translation
    • Translation principles
    • Translation procedure
  • Translation definition language
    • Organization of a translation schema
    • Line length
    • Buffers
    • Counters
    • Constants
    • Variables
    • Translating structure elements
    • Conditional rules
      • Conditions based on the logical position of the element
      • Conditions on references
      • Conditions on the parameters
      • Conditions on the alphabets
      • Conditions on page breaks
      • Conditions on the element's content
      • Conditions on the presence of comments
      • Conditions on the presence of specific presentation rules
      • Conditions on the presence of logical attributes
      • Conditions on logical attributes
      • Conditions on specific presentation rules
    • Translation rules
    • The Create rule
    • The Write rule
    • The Read rule
    • The Include rule
    • The Get rule
    • The Copy rule
    • The Use rule
    • The Remove rule
    • The NoTranslation rule
    • The NoLineBreak rule
    • The ChangeMainFile rule
    • The RemoveFile rule
    • The Set and Add rules
    • The Indent rule
    • Rule application order
    • Translation of logical attributes
    • Translation of specific presentations
    • Recoding of characters, symbols and graphics
• Language grammars
  • The M meta-language
  • The S language
  • The P language
  • The T language
• Character coding
  • Characters
  • Symbols
  • Graphical elements