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Hi Giovanni,

On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 11:57:39AM +0100, Giovanni Piredda wrote:
> On 23.01.20 11:53, Massimiliano Gubinelli wrote:
> >I do not think plugins can control much of the typetting (also, maybe you 
> >do not want this). However since you have scheme you can always invoke 
> >external programs from scheme and back, providing you the access to full 
> >functionality (but essentially this means that you have to build a new 
> >communication protocol). Also, I think you can dinamically link libraries 
> >to TeXmacs while running, but I do not remember what are the 
> >functionalities that are available to you in that case.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation. I have come to like writing programs in
> Scheme (by the way I have started exploring its debugger, the first
> experience was positive ... I have already forgotten all about it
> though!), but I thought that Python could be attractive for other
> people.

The problem with using a plug-in for typesetting is speed:
the usual communication over pipes is asynchroneous,
so this is way to slow for what you want.

So you definitely would need to dynamically link your plug-in to
make things work like you want.  From the TeXmacs side, this interface
is essentially similar (the messages are just passed directly using
a C interface).  But I don't know whether Python is available
in such a way.

Best wishes, --Joris