Good documentation is important for the production of reusable and maintainable software.
For the production of accurate documentation it is necessary that the original program text is …

This book is intended for anyone who plans, designs and implements software systems, for
anyone who is involved with quality assurance, and hence for anyone who is interested in …

Source code is, among other things, a text to be read. In this paper I argue that reading
source code is a key activity in software maintenance, and that we can profitably apply …

Tool builders dealing with many different languages, and language designers require
sophisticated pretty-print techniques to minimize the time needed for constructing and …

Visual computing emhpasizes visibility of information of interest and direct manipulation of
visible information. It has become a dominant style of computing in recent years. In this …

The research on PREGMATIC was financed by NWO, the Dutch Organization for Scientific
Research; project number: 612-317-020. I was confronted with Extended Affix Grammars …

In order to make computer programs more readable, presentation and documentation of
program source texts need to be enhanced. In this paper, we propose a presentation …

Lector, an X11 application for flexible text interaction, is described. Lector was originally
devised as a simple, rapid formatter for the display of online text databases. It was then …

The main purpose of the pretty printing tool, presented here, is not so much the complete
reformating of a program but is described better as finding and correcting formating errors. A …

Programmers working on large software systems are faced with an extremely complex,
information-rich environment. To help navigate through this, modern development …