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


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  • From: Frank <address@hidden>
  • To: Sam Liddicott <address@hidden>,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 09:16:00 +0000
Hi,

On executing external commands: I asked before, and Joris said that it is
impossible without explicit permission of user, otherwise it would be a bug
and should be fixed.

Best,
Frank

于 November 29, 2020 8:59:40 AM UTC, Sam Liddicott <address@hidden> 写到:
>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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