TABLES: MODELING, EDITING, AND FORMATTING

Xinxin Wang and I began investigating tables in 1991. We chose this topic because, within the realm of typesetting, tabular typesetting appears to be the most difficult.

  • [Journal Articles:]
    1. Xinxin Wang and Derick Wood, An Abstract Model for Tables, TUGBoat 14(3), (1993), 231-237. Here is a preliminary version.

  • [Conference Presentations:]
    1. Xinxin Wang and Derick Wood, A Conceptual Model for Tables, Principles of Digital Document Processing, PODDP '98, E. Munson, C. Nicholas and D. Wood (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1481, (1998), 10-23.
    2. Xinxin Wang and Derick Wood, XTABLE: A tabular editor and formatter, (1996), Proceedings of Electronic Publishing 1996 (EP 96), appeared in a special issue of Electronic Publishing - Origination, Dissemination and Design 8, 167-179, 1995. A preliminary version is available as Technical Report HKUST-CS96-29.
    3. Xinxin Wang and Derick Wood, Tabular Formatting Problems, Principles of Document Processing, PODP '96, C. Nicholas and D. Wood (Eds.), Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1293, (1997), 171-181. A preliminary version is available as Technical Report HKUST-CS96-28.
    4. Xinxin Wang and Derick Wood, Tabular Abstraction for Tabular Editing and Formatting, Third International Conference for Young Computer Scientists, 1993. Here is a preliminary version---and the only version!

  • [Books and Chapters in Books:]
    1. D. Wood, Standard Generalized Markup Language: Mathematical and philosophical issues, in Computer Science Today, edited by Jan van Leeuwen (New York, NY: Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1000, 1995), 344-365. A preliminary version is available as Technical Report HKUST-CS95-37.

  • [Theses:]
    1. Xinxin Wang, Tabular abstraction, editing, and formatting, PhD Thesis,, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 1996.

    • Updated by Derick Wood 24/08/2000