Generating presentation constraints from rhetorical structure
HYPERTEXT '00 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM on Hypertext and hypermedia
A constraint extension to scalable vector graphics
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on World Wide Web
The Cassowary linear arithmetic constraint solving algorithm
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
A presentation language for controlling the formatting process in multimedia presentations
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Document engineering
Toward a Graphical Approach to Multimedia Document Design
ICDCSW '03 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Adaptive grid-based document layout
ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers
Creating personalized documents: an optimization approach
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM symposium on Document engineering
Evaluation of visual balance for automated layout
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
A framework for structure, layout & function in documents
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering
Hierarchical Layouts for Photo Libraries
IEEE MultiMedia
Review of automatic document formatting
Proceedings of the 9th ACM symposium on Document engineering
A model-driven methodology to the content layout problem in web applications
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB)
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Existing layout languages provide support for geometric properties allowing - and in a sense forcing - users to give a complete geometric description of the desired output: if the characteristics of the output medium change, the layout of the whole document has to be reworked completely, as the properties set by the user are no longer appropriate for the modified context. In this paper we propose a different paradigm which allows users to produce layouts by describing their topological and abstract properties, rather than geometric ones. We first define and detail topological properties as abstract relationships between the document components, independent from the output characteristics, and then describe an XML-based layout language based on these concepts, called TALL. A running engine able to transform topological layouts into actual PDF files, based on XSLT and the DDF framework, is presented as well.