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[Corey Sweeney <address@hidden>]

I realize everyone else is responding to this, so i'll try to keep this brief.

You are proposing that more "should" be going on the "essential
functionality" of TeXmacs, but i'm a little fuzzy as to what that
means.  Does this refer to bugfixes? Is it a HCI thing?  For
example a upgrade to a new widget library (like gtk2 or whatever) would
be cool. Or perhaps "template libraries"  (like templates for
legal forms or whatever comes in office packages)

Joris would be the one who would really know, but I would suspect that
the time it would take to squash all the bugs, or move to gtk2, or
write a bunch of template libraries, would be quite large compared to
the new addition of the drawing tools.

However you can always influence what they work on with donations ;)

Hmm, that's not as brief as I was hoping.

Corey

(By the way, this change is important to me, as it now will allow me to
collect more the "source (i.e. editable text, or editable picture
(formerly in gimp format))" for a given document into one file.)

On 9/28/05, Magnus Rohde <address@hidden> wrote:

Congratulations on the new graphical mode, that we've been hearing
about for so long.

However there are a few thoughts that I've done on the direction of the
project that I would like to share with you, even though you might not
agree.
I think that the focus of the TeXmacs-project should be on improving
the essential functionality of TeXmacs instead of adding new (major)
functions, like the graphical mode. It is impossible to compete with
purposebuilt applications such as Xfig or (the non-free) Illustrator on
"their turf". Such new functions only have some justification if they
can in some way enhance the existing program e.g. via resizing/place
graphics with the mouse.
I fully understand that TeXmacs is dependent on volunteers, and that it
is often more exciting to work on "new fancy things", but if TeXmacs
should ever be a mature, widely used program, someone has to do the
boring stuff too.


Magnus


Den 28/9-2005, kl. 12:08, skrev Joris van der Hoeven:

> We are happy to announce a new mode for drawing graphical pictures.
> A first alpha-release comes with the last version 1.0.5.9 of TeXmacs,
> which is available now. In order to insert a graphics, do
>
>       Insert -> Image -> Draw image
>
> More information is available from
>
>       http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~henri/texmacs/aTeXmacsGraphicsTutorial.pdf
>
> A reference manual will be included directly into TeXmacs later.
>
> Best wishes, Joris
>