Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

Interdoc Status Report

History

Requirements and Exclusions

A peek at the language

Tomorrow’s meeting

And then ...

Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

Interdoc History

The N2 problem

Press

Interpress

SISB

CSL involvement

Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

Requirements and Exclusions

An interchange standard must:

Use a universal character set
(graphic subset of ISO 646/ASCII)

Provide an acceptably efficient encoding

Be open-ended

Preserve document structure

Preserve document form

Provide faithful transcriptions

Simplify limited-fidelity rendition

Interdoc is not:

A file format

A standard for editing

A mechanism for combining documents

A substitute for other corporate standards

Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

An Interdoc Definition

1Laurel60= ’
2time@! from@! subject@! to@! BodyNodes@! cc@!
3LAURELMSG$
4CR = <#13#> TAB = <#9#>
5justified←F
6font.family=Times font.size=10
7margins.left←2540 margins.right←19050
8leading.x←1 leading.y←1 -- overridable default leadings --
9PrintForm=
10 ’{ TEXT$
11 <Date: > time@ TAB
12 <From: > from@ CR
13 <Subject: > subject@ CR
14 <To: > to@
15 leading.y←6
16 BodyNodes@
17 <cc: > cc@
18 }’
19Heading = ’LAURELHEADING$
20Sub←’TEXT$ LAURELFIELD$’ ’
21Body = ’Sub←’para BodyNodes!’’
’

Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

An Interdoc Script

22Interdoc/Interchange/1.0--standard heading --
23{Laurel60 -- Invoke Laurel def’ns --
24 {Heading%-- Invoke heading style --
25 {time!<18 June 1981 9:18 am PDT (Thursday)>}
26 {from! AUTHENTICATED$ <Mitchell.PA>}
27 {subject!<A Sample Document Syntax>}
28 {to!<Horning.PA>}
29 {cc!<Mitchell, Interdoc.PA>}
30 }
31 {Body%-- Invoke body style --
32 {<text of paragraph1>}
33 {<text of paragraph2>}
34 {<text of paragraph3>}
35 }
36}

Interdoc DealerSeptember 23, 1981

An Interdoc Script—Machine-style

Interdoc/Interchange/1.0 {Laurel60{h%{ti!<18 June 1981 9:18 am PDT (Thursday)>}{f! AUTH$ <Mitchell.PA>}
{s!<A Sample Document Syntax>}{to!<Horning.PA>}{c!
<Mitchell, Interdoc.PA>}}{b%{<text of paragraph1>}{<text of paragraph2>}{<text of paragraph3>}}}