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[Giovanni Piredda <address@hidden>]

On 27.09.19 09:52, TeXmacs wrote:
> Hi Giovanni,
>
> Thanks for this work.  This is definitely an improvement.
>
> Please find a proposal to shorten the graphics example a bit attached;
> it would be nice to keep the same indentation; you may re-add the comments.
>
> I will keep thinking about other suggestions.
>
> Best wishes, --Joris
To make sure:

should we release the image with the standard Wikipedia license (I 
forgot what it is) or something else?

Apart this: two sentences that would benefit from a revision are:

1) The typesetting process converts TeXmacs trees into boxes.

Here I think the text could be expanded a bit. One could say which 
algorithm TeXmacs uses to break lines and what does it use to place 
lines on the page (as far as I understand in TeX these are the 
horizontal and vertical modes); and I read that there is a page-breaking 
algorithm as well. Maybe a short description of two or three lines with 
one reference to another Wikipedia article would be good.


2) Evaluation of TeXmacs trees proceeds by reduction of the primitives, 
that is by evaluation of macro applications.

I took this sentence from Massimiliano, but I understand it only 
vaguely: I think it means that the results of macros are substituted in 
for the macros themselves iteratively, till one reaches macros that have 
a typographic representation (the primitives). I can see it being ok at 
the talk, but I think it needs to be rewritten for Wikipedia (one should 
be able to follow it without knowing in advance what is the "evaluation 
of macro applications").


Giovanni




> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:43:43AM +0200, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
> > I have expanded the Wikipedia article (both the English and Italian
> > versions). I have added information about typesestting, macros,
> > Scheme and graphics, and also added that there is a group of
> > collaborators around JvdH that maintains the program (I think that a
> > mention of collaboration could beget further collaboration).
> >
> > The article would benefit from a review. I have copied (with minimal
> > adaptations) part of what I wrote from Massimiliano's presentation
> > at the Guile and Guix days this June 
> > (https://www.iam.uni-bonn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/gubinelli/texmacs/talk-texmacs-guile-strasbourg-june-2019.pdf)
> > and there are things that I understand faintly, so that I might have
> > written something wrong; in addition to this, Wikipedia recommends
> > not copying :-) so that a bit of re-elaboration of the text is due I
> > think - I will do myself but a review is again helpful. The new
> > section is the one with the title "Typesetting and document
> > control".
> >
> > I have tried to put in an example of graphics that is short enough
> > to be ok for an encyclopedia article but looks nice as well. Perhaps
> > that can be improved too, it looks a bit long to me.
> >
> >
> > Giovanni