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Re: [TeXmacs] Input welcome for discussion on the future of TeXmacs


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  • From: "David G. Wonnacott" <address@hidden>
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  • Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Input welcome for discussion on the future of TeXmacs
  • Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:21:50 -0500
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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?


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