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[Frank <address@hidden>]

Dear all,

I think that a comprehensive tutorial or a "cookbook" is not an 
excellent way to present for a GUI program. It seems better to use some 
animations. The uploaded videos are good. There are also several 
alternatives which may need more efforts, like guided tips integrated in 
the program.

Best wishes,


Le 12/06/2019 à 10:49, Massimiliano Gubinelli a écrit :
> Dear Giovanni,
>
> > On 11. Jun 2019, at 23:37, Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
>   

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Best wishes!
Yours,