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Re: Why not create a standalone viewer for .tm files?


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  • From: Sam Liddicott <address@hidden>
  • To: Amir Michail <address@hidden>
  • Cc: texmacs-users <address@hidden>
  • Subject: Re: Why not create a standalone viewer for .tm files?
  • Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 08:59:40 +0000
You basically want a build where editing is forbidden.

Microsoft released a stand-alone viewer for Microsoft word because they didn't want to enable editing for licensing reasons.

Editing was denied to people who hadn't paid.

Why should texmacs editing capabilities be denied to anyone?

However, MS Office currently has an initial read-only mode for files downloaded or received by email, and an "enable editing" button is shown.

Maybe there is some benefits in that for texmacs to prevent execution of external commands by document macros for those operating systems that have some well-defined system for identifying downloaded files.

Sam

Sam

Sam

On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, 18:45 Amir Michail, <address@hidden> wrote:
Hello,

I was wondering if it would make sense for the TeXmacs team to create a standalone viewer for .tm files.

Unlike PDFs, this would at the very least allow you to have word wrapping occur at the window edge and there would be no need for page breaking.

Although exporting to HTML does allow this kind of word wrapping, the document visual quality is not as good as what would be possible with a TeXmacs viewer.

And of course, a TeXmacs viewer could go much further than PDFs while protecting document integrity (e.g., you might be able to restyle the document, mark it up, etc. without messing up the original content.).

What do you think?

Amir


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