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Hi David,

Thanks for all your contribs and tips about TeXmacs is a very worth
thing for newbies like me. I like a lot TeXmacs because I think that is
more concibed for digital docs and not primary for printed docs (like
TeX and LaTeX).


El dom, 07-04-2002 a las 00:30, David Allouche escribió:
> I am currently working on a document transformation system for TeXmacs.
> 
> The long term goal (6 months) of this project is to include support for a 
> reasonable subset of XSLT in TeXmacs, allowing WYSIWYG edition of 
> arbitrary XML documents. The shorter term goal is to factor out the 
> implementation of the style language from the typesetter, and to
extend the 
> usefulness of the style system.

This would open the posibility for WYSIWYG MathML edition (or at least
export) on TeXmacs? This would be in my opinion one of the most
important things on TeXmacs development. I say that because actually
math on the web is done using graphics for equations and especial
characters and letters, but graphics losse a lot of the meaning of a
mathematical expression and make very dificult or nearly impossible
searching, indexing and/or sorting for that mathematical expressions.
MathML was designed trying to solve that problems and the most used
tools for mathematical typesetting like mathematica, maple, mathtype are
supporting or planning the support of MathML. Seems that it would be the
"lingua franca" for mathematical documents and it would cause the same
revolution in the interchage of that documents as HTML made for common
text.

> 
> I just released the first public draft of my analysis and implementation 
> documentation for that project. You can download it at:
> 
> http://www.davidallouche.org/texmacs/dev/transformations-RFC-1.tar.gz
> 
> This document is an informal Request For Comments. That means it is a
working 
> draft, but I think it has grown enough to give a not so bad overview
of what 
> I know, understand and intend to do. I publish it in the hope of getting 
> feedback to improve the design before making important implementation 
> decisions.
> 
> If you are interested in this development of TeXmacs, and think you can 
> provide useful advice, experience, or anything, please post your
comments on 
> address@hidden. Further releases of that document will be
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Above is all that a newbie like me can say for the moment, but i really
apreciate your invitation. In this moment I have no Internet conection
(this email was made off-line) but when I can I will give a read of your
transformations-RFC doc.


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> Thanks for your help in improving TeXmacs.
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> 
>                                   -- David --


Thanks to you for all your help. Best whishes,


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