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[Mark Arrasmith <address@hidden>]

On Friday 30 September 2005 11:17 am, Corey Sweeney wrote:
> With the harsh words being said, I just wanna say that I am excited about
> this. Thanks to everyeone involved.

I'd also like to say thanks.  

Now for some IMS(tupid)O comments/questions ...

Is the graphics mode the future plan for how sessions (MuPad, Maxima, Octave, 
gnuplot, etc) should dump graphics back into the document?  

It would be a very useful tool for gnuplot to return an image where we could 
add advanced text, labels, further diagrams, and resize from within the 
graphics mode.  I suppose a variation of a pstoedit pass-through is what I'm 
thinking about.

Is the editing graphics mode going to be designed for Mathematics (geometry, 
etc) or Graphics (flow charts)?  

If geometry is one goal I would recommend that people play with 
http://edu.kde.org/kig/.  KIG is part of the KDEedu project.  The interface 
behavior with the buttons, mouse pointers, and menus is an environment that I 
really like.  Right now the TeXmacs graphics editor doesn't give me enough 
feedback on what I'm doing at any given moment.  For example if I select the 
TextBox button or Add Circle button I can't tell at all which mode I'm in.

Bugs: 
Z and z don't zoom the image for me.  They just type Z or z within the image. 
 
(I'm using the rpm install)

You can get locked out of editing the image.  
Steps: 
    Insert a new drawing.  
    First thing ... create a text box in the image and type some text.  
    You then can't click out of that text box within the image.

- mark