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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:44:56PM +0200, Ingolf Schaefer wrote:
> >It works for me, except that it uses the wrong freetype library
> >(so no fonts are visible). It is possible that this is a specific problem
> >of my computer though.
> >  
> No, it is not a problem of your computer, but a bug in the applescript. 
> I will fix this today.

Cool.

> >Which patches?
> >  
> I think they are from Martin Costable.  See here
> http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/editors/texmacs.info?revision=1.5&view=markup
>  
> 
> At least you should consider the patch for  intel  macs for the main tree.

Hmm, I'll remember that.

> >>In principle this version should run on Mac OS X 10.3.9 aka Panther.
> >>    
> There will be no other version supported than Panther. The linker of 
> Jaguar is a mess.

OK.

> >>Things, I would like to include:
> >>1.) Semi automatic import of ttf fonts, i.e. automatic generation of
> >>menu etc. (The menu is already there but does not do anything right now).
> >
> >I fear that one has to hack the TeXmacs sources for this one.
> >  
> No, I do not think so. Or to be more precise one just has to adjust some 
> scheme code but nothing in the C++ part.

Sure, that is an acceptable temporary solution. Nevertheless, we probably
should add support for one or more of the standard font selection schemes.
This is quite tricky, because we still follow a lot of the LaTeX font
selection rules and some of our own. We also should move to
full Unicode support. In principle, this is done at several places,
but not everywhere.

> My real problem is how to deal with this fonts and how to incoporate
> fondu into the applescript in a better way, than OpenOffice does.
> (OpenOffice simply converts every font and copies it into the app-package)
> 
> My idea was that the user could choose which fonts to convert for the 
> use with texmacs from some dialog.

Yes, that is the first problem, if you want to do things nicely.
Nevertheless, don't hesitate to experiment; any lessons you learn
may be useful for later.

> >>2.) The "Convert" and the "Print" menu do nothing yet.
> >
> >Notice also that the TeXmacs Starter menu disappears as soon as X is 
> >launched on my system (it gets replaced by X).
> >  
> Yes, this true. My idea was that basic command line tasks like printing 
> or converting could be done without
> opening X11 by just clicking some file requesters in the aqua enviroment.

Hmm...
  
> >>3.) Spotlight plugin
> >
> >That would be nice indeed.
> >  
> Unfortunately, I was too busy to work on this the last months.
> BTW, I think it is incredible that you have time for TeXmacs besides
> your mathematical projects and your family. Are you sure, that you
> are only one person ;-)

I am afraid so. Well, Henri also does the graphical mode.

Best wishes, Joris