- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: michael graffam <address@hidden>
- Cc: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] applications under TeXmacs
- Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:45:53 +0200 (CEST)
Hi Michael,
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, michael graffam wrote:
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I've been working on the TeXmacs interface to Common
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Lisp (CMUCL and CLISP implementations are supported).
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This interface consists of a bit of glue to make CL
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and TeXmacs talk via the prompt strings of the
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interpreters, and a CL package of tools for emitting
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TeXmacs code, generating postscript plots, etc is
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being developed.
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One of the things I'm currently adding is the ability
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to easily create TeXmacs menus and such from CL. In
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principle, CL could wipe out the TeXmacs menu-bar and
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use TeXmacs as a GUI for some other application which
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uses TeXmacs for high-quality typeset I/O.
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I think this would be a drastic intrusion though. I am
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thinking of putting a sandbox around CL, and forcing
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menus created by CL to be under a TeXmacs submenu
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called Lisp.
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How does everyone feel about this? Should applications
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hijack the TeXmacs interface, or just add to it?
Applications, and all the more lisp-like languages,
should be able to completely hijack the TeXmacs interface.
However, it is not quite clear how to do this is a clean way.
Probably, implementing such a thing in the right way requires
a real investment in time: you should have a robust representation
of lisp objects from scheme and vice versa, as well as a way to
export and import signatures.
- Re: [TeXmacs] applications under TeXmacs, Joris van der Hoeven, 04/26/2005
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