🚀 go-pugleaf

Some (unnecessary) argumentation results from the fact that the
terminology that has been used in the wysiwyg/compiler discussion is
confusing, or just plain wrong.  Some people talk about compiler-type
formatters when they really mean declarative formatters.  I think
Brian Read is mostly arguing for decalarative formatters as opposed
to procedural ones, while some are arguing for or against interactive
vs. batch formatters and still others are arguing about wysiwyg,
wysi-almost-wyg, and wysi-not-wyg systems.  (If you don't know what
declarative vs. procedural is, read Furuta et. al.'s Cumputing Surveys
paper - Sept. 1982.)
   I would like an interactive, wysi-almost-wyg, declarative system
that makes the editing part painless.  [ With current declarative
systems like Scribe, when editing the document content, the markup
gets in the way and when editing the structure of the document, the
content gets in the way.]  At the same time I want access to a
variety of formatters so that I can format my document with any of
them.  And that's the system we are building.  Ask me about it by the
end of 1986, when my thesis is done :-)