Designing A Functional Document Processor
summary
Claims a functional document processor that auto-derives editors from templates and tries to satisfy the trilemma of convenience, customizability, and data/representation separation. Shows a research prototype called tail that exposes a data schema and a layout schema, generates form-based editors, renders live updates, and lets layout changes swap representations without touching data. Built demo works but UI is immature; templating is currently naive with no nested templates yet; GitHub repo linked.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Functional document processors
- 1:03Documents and substructures
- 3:57Document creation and editing
- 7:29Form-based editing and templates
- 10:57Nested templates and structure trees
- 13:05Cross-paradigm editors
- 14:30Introducing Tail
- 15:37Live demo of Tail
- 17:24Tail’s template system future
- 18:26Open source and community
- 19:11Q&A
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