Straight-line programs offer powerful text compression by representing a text T [1, u] in terms of a context-free grammar of n rules, so that T can be recovered in O(u) time. However, the problem of operating the grammar in compressed form has not been studied much. We present the first grammar representation able of extracting text substrings, and of searching the text for patterns, in time o(...

lines, pseudolines, polar coordinates, trilinear coordinates, non-linear programming, geometry We present a graph-drawing algorithm which respects extended co-linearity constraints. These are expressed as a set of ‘straight’ paths in a planar graph. Constraints of this sort are translated into a set of inequalities over polar coordinates of lines. These inequalities provide necessary and suffic...