\chapter{Introduction}\label{Introduction}
-The introduction will be witty and engaging and a joy to read.
+\section{Motivation}
-I hope.
+Early electronic document formats such as PostScript were motivated by a need to print documents onto a paper medium. In the PostScript standard, this lead to a model of the document as a program; a series of instructions to be executed by an interpreter which would result in ``ink'' being placed on ``pages'' of a fixed size\cite{plrm}. The ubiquitous Portable Document Format (PDF) standard provides many enhancements to PostScript taking into account desktop publishing requirements\cite{cheng2002portable}, but it is still fundamentally based on the same imaging model\cite{pdfref17}. This idea of a document as a static ``page'' has lead to limited precision in these and other traditional document formats.
-Points to address:
-\begin{enumerate}
- \item What this is.
- \item Why we should care
- \item Most recent development
- \item Do we really mean ``infinite''? (No. Sorry. We lied)
- \item Foundational papers. Historical notes.
-\end{enumerate}
+The emergence of the internet, web browsers, XML/HTML, JavaScript and related technologies has seen a revolution in the ways in which information can be presented digitally, and the PDF standard itself has begun to move beyond static text and figures\cite{hayes2012pixels, barnes2013embedding}. However, the popular document formats are still designed with the intention of showing information at either a single, fixed level of detail, or a small range of levels.
-See also: The Abstract.
-See also: The Conclusion.
+As most digital display devices are smaller than physical paper medium, all useful viewers are able to ``zoom'' to a subset of the document. Vector graphics formats including PostScript and PDF support rasterisation at different zoom levels\cite{plrm, pdfref17}, but the use of fixed precision floating point numbers causes problems due to imprecision either far from the origin, or at a high level of detail\cite{goldberg1991whatevery, goldberg1992thedesign}.
-The remainder of this report will be organised as follows: Chapters \ref{BackgroundHardware} and \ref{BackgroundSoftware} will discuss approaches to representation of numbers in both Hardware and Software respectively; Chapter \ref{Approach} will outline the approach [reword] considering <insert fuzzy list of faculty dependent requirements here (Safety, Ethics, Group Work Process, etc)>. Chapter/Appendices \ref{Implementation} will provide implementation notes. Chapter \ref{Results} will describe our results. Chapter \ref{Conclusion} will be the conclusion.
+We are now seeing a widespread use of mobile computing devices with touch screens, where the display size is typically much smaller than paper pages and traditional computer monitors; it seems that there is much to be gained by breaking free of the restricted precision of traditional document formats.
+\section{Overview}
-
-NOTE: Given that I don't actually need a full thesis, change from Chapters to Sections?
-NOTE2: Will treat as a full thesis but if it gets too big, submit a condensed version as the MCTX "report".
-
-NOTE3: In final version, put the Approach at the end and/or in appendices before the Implementation notes rather than the start (?)
+The remainder of this document will be organised as follows: In Chapter \ref{Proposal} we give an overview of the current state of the research in document formats, and the motivation for implementing ``infinite precision'' in a document format. We will outline our approach to research in collaboration with David Gow\cite{}. In Chapter \ref{Background} we provide more detailed background examining the literature related to rendering, interpreting, and creating document formats, as well as possible techniques for increased and possibly infinite precision. In Chapter \ref{Progress} gives the current state of our research and the progress towards the goals outlined in Chapter \ref{Introduction}. In Chapter \ref{Conclusion} we will conclude with a summary of our findings and goals.
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