Inferring structure information from typography

Abstract

One of the key benefits of digital documents is the possibility to add further structure. With current authoring tools, however, this imposes additional effort on the author. We propose a technique which uses everyday editing actions to infer structure. For this, we rely on the widespread use of typographical markup by authors.We state the assumptions underlying its application, design, and possibilities. In concluding remarks, we draw connections to further work which will provide actual benefits to authors based on the inferred structure.