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XLBlocks: a Block-based Formula Editor for Spreadsheet Formulas
No full textSpreadsheets are frequently used in industry to support critical business decisions. Unfortunately, they also suffer from error-proneness, which sometimes results in costly consequences. Experiments in the field of program education have shown that programmers tend to make fewer errors and can better focus on the logic of a program if they use a block-based language instead of a textual one. We hypothesize that a block-based formula editor could support spreadsheet users in a similar way. Therefore, we develop XLBlocks and conduct a think-aloud study with 13 experienced spreadsheet users from industry. Participants are asked to create and edit several formulas, using our block-based language. We then ask them to evaluate this editor using the Cognitive Dimensions of Notations framework. We found that for all dimensions the block-based formula editor received a better evaluation than the default text-based formula editor.Accepted author manuscriptSoftware Engineerin
The Author Reply. Letter to the Editor
No full textThe Author reply to the Letter sent to the Editor about a previus article on low anterior resection
Towards language-parametric semantic editor services based on declarative type system specifications
No full textEditor services assist programmers to more effectively write and comprehend code. Implementing editor services correctly is not trivial. This paper focuses on the specification of semantic editor services, those that use the semantic model of a program. The specification of refactorings is a common subject of study, but many other semantic editor services have received little attention. We propose a language-parametric approach to the definition of semantic editor services, using a declarative specification of the static semantics of the programming language, and constraint solving. Editor services are specified as constraint problems, and language specifications are used to ensure correctness. We describe our approach for the following semantic editor services: reference resolution, find usages, goto subclasses, code completion, and the extract definition refactoring. We do this in the context of Statix, a constraint language for the specification of type systems. We investigate the specification of editor services in terms of Statix constraints, and the requirements these impose on a suitable solver.Programming Language
William Fielding Fearn Wannan, author, editor and freelance journalist
No full textWilliam Fielding Fearn Wannan, author, editor and freelance journalist. Photograph stamped Gordon F De'Lisle, Melbourn
�ÙØ���Ü: An Author/Editor Indexing Package
No full textThis document describes authidx, apackagefor automatic generation of author/editor indexes, and citation page references, with AmSTEX, LATEX, e-plain TEX, and plain TEX
The Author / as Editor / as Producer. Preliminary Notes on the Aesthetic Function of the Editor
No full textIn Walter Benjamin’s ”The Author as Producer”, the writer is urged to identify with the worker in terms of a producer – i.e. not only on an ideological level, but with regards to the technological conditions of production within a given historical moment – in order to become both politically and aesthetically effective. This, in turn, must take place through an elimination of the demarcation lines between specific mediums and their affiliated competences. In this sense (at least according to Benjamin, in 1934), doing away with the ’barrier’ between text and image, for instance, would be a way of escaping a bourgeois production apparatus. One aspect of this idea of the author as producer, is that the author here assumes the figure of what is essentially an editor: someone who identifies, collects, modifies, constellates and distributes cultural artifacts – regardless of medium, regardless of publishing surface; a practice that is not medium specific, and implies an unconstrained mobility between different technologies of cultural production and distribution. One consequence of the general digitalization of contemporary culture is that the distinction between the figure of the author and the editor has become eminently uncertain. Can Benjamin’s 1934 reflection on cultural production be beneficial for developing tools to describe what one could call an recent editorial turn of artistic practice? Is this assumed ’turn’ actually a longer historical process, made visible by the emergence of digital editing (in a broader sense)? And in what ways can it help to uncover hitherto hard to discern aspects of historical art and literature
WIRIS OM tools: a semantic formula editor
No full textWith the increasing reliance on computers for the automatic processing
of information a new method is needed for editing mathematical formulae.
We are used to WYSIWYG editors that produce beautiful presentations of
formulae and store the typesetting primitives rather than the meaning of the
formulas. However, new services such as database searching or calculation
web-services work best if they have access to the semantic information behind
a formula. This can only be done with a new generation of formula editors.
In this paper we present WIRIS OM Tools [17], a semantic oriented formula
editor which addresses these concerns. It is based on the OpenMath language
and a suitable transformation process between OpenMath and MathML ex-
pressions. Additionally, this approach adds new features for the users such
as error, type and syntax checking. The editor is currently being used in the
LeActiveMath and WebALT projects
Help me describe my data: A demonstration of the Open PHACTS VoID Editor
No full textThe Open PHACTS VoID Editor helps non-Semantic Web experts to create machine interpretable descriptions for their datasets. The web app guides the user, an expert in the domain of the data, through a series of questions to capture details of their dataset and then generates a VoID dataset description. The generated dataset description conforms to the Open PHACTS dataset description guidelines that ensure suitable provenance information is available about the dataset to enable its discovery and reuse.The VoID Editor is available at http://voideditor.cs.man.ac.uk. The source code can be found at https://github.com/openphacts/Void-Editor2
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