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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Dear Giovanni, 

> On 11. Jun 2019, at 23:37, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Am 01.06.2019 um 23:50 schrieb Massimiliano Gubinelli:
>> 
>> So I do not think is mainly a technological problem or the lack of this or 
>> this other feature, but is a problem of perception.
>> 
>> After many years of discussing always the same questions and never coming 
>> up with convincing answers, all TeXmacs' developers go back to silence and 
>> to do what is more funny: implement new features and iron away old bugs.
>> 
>> Best
>> mg
> 
> I have had time to think about this and I am able to be synthetic: I think 
> it would be a good idea to make it as easy as possible to join the fun. Of 
> course it is necessary to know a little bit, but for example one could ease 
> the first steps for those who want to write some macros for TeXmacs; right 
> now it takes some patience (and help from the developers at least in my 
> case) to find out the necessary steps.

you are right. Actually we miss tutorials for all the basic features of 
TeXmacs: write dynamic presentations, write or augment or customize style 
files, interaction with scheme and proper use of the graphics editor. Also 
tutorial on the very many other “hidden” features like website creation, 
versioning, use of databases, encryption of documents, etc…

Personally I do not have specific expertise in any of these areas, but we 
could try to think to start a collaborative project to produce a 
comprehensive tutorial or at least a “cookbook” (maybe initially) to collect 
and consolidate our partial experises. I think we cannot expect Joris to 
write them, he is right now quite busy in preparing 2.1.

Best
Max