Flexible Text Display with Lector

  • Authors:
  • Darrell R. Raymond

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • Computer - Special issue on sharing: high performance at low cost
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

Lector, an X11 application for flexible text interaction, is described. Lector was originally devised as a simple, rapid formatter for the display of online text databases. It was then discovered that Lector exhibited useful capabilities for a wide range of text applications. The ways in which Lector distinguishes between content and tags in descriptively marked-up text and achieves flexible interaction are discussed. Its applications as a text previewer, database browser, code prettyprinter, and menu utility are also discussed.