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


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  • From: TeXmacs <address@hidden>
  • To: address@hidden
  • Subject: Re: Why not create a standalone viewer for .tm files?
  • Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:37:40 +0100
Hi all,

I don't see an easy way to create a viewer that would essentially be different
from TeXmacs itself. So it seems to be a lot of effort for a debatable gain.

On the other hand, a related idea is to be able use TeXmacs as a plug-in
inside browsers. I think that this might be very interesting for certain
use scenarios. I did not investigate for a while, but I remember that Qt
used to simplify this task, so it might be doable without too much pain.

Best wishes, --Joris



On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 08:59:40AM +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> 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, <[1]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
>
> References
>
> Visible links
> 1. mailto:address@hidden
> /usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: htmlview: command not found
> /usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: firefox: command not found
> /usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: mozilla: command not found
> /usr/bin/xdg-open: line 402: netscape: command not found

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