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[Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <address@hidden>]

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Cheers,

Offray

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• From: Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas <address@hidden>
• To: address@hidden
• Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Fundraising
• Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:53:28 -0500

Hi all,


Henri Lesourd wrote:

Javier Arantegui wrote:

Hello,

I do believe that TeXmacs is getting older pretty fast. Maybe it's not a technological problem, but definitively the look'n'feel is too old. Lately I've been trying to migrate a couple of user to TeXmacs and I was unlucky. In both cases they found the interface almost unusable.

I'm using TeXmacs with undergraduate students of first semester. It's usable and they get the work done, but...

-> The File chooser widget (in fact, it is the main one
which is really annoying : all the rest of the interface
is made of menus which, in any case, look and behave
somehow the same in any case) ;

This is a problem with my students. They get used to it after a while, but I think that we would see the way to usea "plugable" save as button, which is more familiar with the rest of the Desktop Enviroment. Something in a similar fashion with the multiple CAS support. So if in some part of the preferences we could say that we use KDE, or Gnome or Rox desktop environments and TeXmacs would use the usual file saving box in that DE, it would be better for the end user (I have no clue about how to get this on Windows).

-> Uncomfortable things, like, for example, how the page
jumps when the cursor is located on the last line on
the screen and when the user hits the "Down" key. In
this latter case, the text should scroll up smoothly,
and only one new text line be added on the last line
on the screen ;

Cursor moving and selection are hard also for my students. They complain about crashes and slow bahaviour on Windows OS and also about being unable to upload saved files.

The plugin CAS sessions, easy mathematical writing, and contex blue boxes are things that they really like. Most of them use Windows as their primary OS and is difficult to get somethings as easy as in Linux for "historical" reasons, for example the poor pipe support, but I thing that is best to concentrate is somekind of TeXmacs working with "services" that can be offered to different OS and Desktop Enviroments.

These are just ideas. I'm helping here with teaching and evangelization, but I dont know if this proposals are difficult to implement.

Cheers,

Offray

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