mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

In my opinion, the issue of porting TeXmacs to tablet devices hinges mostly in designing a proper user interface. TeXmacs relies a lot on key sequences and combinations, and in general on complex keyboard interactions. All this is not appropriate in a tablet device: alternative input interface has to be designed which in my opinion is a nontrivial task. But also opens many exciting possibilities, like for example to have keyboard layouts which respond and adapt to the current focus. This brings also in the problem how to make these possibilities interact with the current codebase which is mostly designed assuming standard fixed keyboards in mind.

So before even thinking about actually porting the code, the design issue and its possible implementation strategy in the current TeXmacs code architecture should be addressed.

Best,

Max

On 4. May 2019, at 10:34, Ben shimol Yehuda <address@hidden> wrote:

Just continuing Amir suggestions (I know it is a long shot)

make TeXmacs available as stand-alone app on iPads (or similar android devices)

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 Yehuda

On May 3, 2019, at 22:58, Amir Michail <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I think the following suggestions could make TeXmacs a lot more popular:

* promote TeXmacs as a note taking tool that is useful even if you don't need to generate high quality PDFs and/or print anything out

* add a mode where word wrapping occurs at the window edge; this allows you to more easily use a narrow TeXmacs window to take notes while using another app to its side

* include a compact layout for taking notes that minimizes white space

* add a dark mode

* make it more difficult to accidentally nest environments in unexpected and hard to correct ways

* make sure copy/paste from TeXmacs to other apps just works and gives reasonable results

What do you think?

Amir

P.S. A more popular TeXmacs could mean a more stable app due to the greater number of bug reports and developers interested in fixing them.