- From: Friedrich Laher <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] A daring feature proposal
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:04:09 +0200
Andrea Gamba wrote:
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I have been thinking about the difference of working on a technical article
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on
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the computer (where you make corrections directly) and paper (where you make
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corrections with a pen and then copy on the computer).
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Working with paper is still useful because it allows to zoom in and out of
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the
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document, to pass from a bird's eye view to the finest detail.
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It is frustrating however, because were it not for this reason, there are
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only
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disadvantages in using paper (at least, you then have to accurately copy
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your
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changes in a computer again).
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I wonder if one could come out with a truly innovative texmacs interface
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such
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that it is possible to easily zoom in and out of the document in the same
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way
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as one does with a sheet of paper.
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With compiz and cairo, the technology is probably available. It would be a
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way
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to really make compositing useful. It would be even better than the expos�
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function (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expos%C3%A9_(Mac_OS_X)): actually, it
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would be expos� for documents, not just for the desktop.
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To my knowledge nothing of this kind still exists, it would be a huge
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innovation (strangely enough, nothing of this sort is not even on the Macs).
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Yes, now you can change the shrinking factor (I often do that), but not
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continuously and you have to wait till the document resizes, it is very far
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from the experience of working with a sheet of paper.
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did you consider the posibilities of using multiple windows ( view -->
clonw window ) to look at and edit far distant parts of the same document
"at the same time" ?
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