"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <3d73eadf@news.povray.org> , "Pandora"
> <pan### [at] pandora-softwarecom> wrote:
>
> >     Enlighten us Thorston, what are *your* definitions of "layout",
> > "structure" and "content" ?
>
> For your futher reference from a source you seem to believe is always
right:
>


    Okay, for me the difference between what you seem call "layout" and
"structure" is one of a level of abstraction. You may have a structure tree,
thus :

Contents.
Section 1.
Section 2.
    Subsection 1.
    Subsection 2.
Section 3.

But, if we then take the down a level of abstraction we may get, something
like :

Contents.
    Content line 1.
    Content line 2.
    Content line 3.
Section 1.
    Column 1.
        Paragraph 1.
        Paragraph 2.
        ....
    Column 2.
        Paragraph 1.
        Image 1.
        Paragraph 2.
        Table 1.
        ....
and so on...

    So just where does "structure" stop and "layout" begin ? Are columns
"layout" or "structure" ? What about paragraphs ? or sentences ? What about
tables ?

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Software Engineer.
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