mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

["David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>]

Thanks for taking the time to poll us for our contributions. I'm not 
sure what you mean by giving 3 points and then summarizing them in one 
(other than, perhaps, to pick the most important one?), but I will make 
up to 3 suggestions, in order of most significant first, interspersed 
with the quoted text of your questions.

On 3/1/12 2:30 PM, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> Dear TeXmacs users,
>
> Tomorrow is the final day of the TeXmacs workshop.
>
> A few important issues will be discussed in a dedicated session. Joris
> has put forward a questionnaire to guide the discussion. To sample the
>   wishes, interests and ideas of TeXmacs users we would welcome the
> opinion of all of you who could not make it to Faro.
>
> Here are the questions*:
>
> ! What would you like to happen with TeXmacs?
> * three most important point
> * then summarize in just one
Most important: Some sort of integration with version control and/or 
support for multi-author documents, *either* some new TeXmacs-specific 
system or (even better, in my opinion) something to help TeXmacs merge 
changes produced by some standard version-control system (git, svn, cvs).

Also significant, and perhaps much easier to implement: mouse-based 
control of formatting, especially in tables/figures (i.e., how do I set 
how much space is between two adjacent columns of a table, or the border 
width? right now I don't know how to do the first, and have to resort to 
typing in numbers in the latter case rather than just dragging a 
slider), but also document/paragraph-first-indent and other margins.

NOTE: I am not using the most recent release of TeXmacs, and don't 
follow documentation as closely as I should, so it is possible those 
features are already implemented and I just don't have them yet or 
haven't found them.
> ! What are the most important bugs?
> * three bugs
> * one bug
None have been particularly bothering me recently.
> ! What would be best for TeXmacs to become adopted?
> * three points
> * one point
Produce standard "style files" for various technical societies that have 
existing LaTeX style files available (ACM, IEEE, Springer-Verlag, etc).
> ! How to organize TeXmacs as a community
> * three points
> * one point
No real opinion here.
> ! What kind of documentation would you like to see more?
> * three points
> * one point
Sadly, I have not read enough documentation to be well informed about 
this :-(
> ! How should TeXmacs be publicized
> * Name change (or not): three suggestions and one suggestion
> * New website, new general graphical design (logo?).
I'm not enthusiastic about a name change, but wouldn't object strongly.
> ! What do you think you could contribute?
> * three points
> * one point
I hope some day to contribute some style files, but am lacking both time 
and TeXmacs expertise. Perhaps a Google Summer-of-Code project could be 
organized?