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Hi all,

I don't see an easy way to create a viewer that would essentially be different
from TeXmacs itself.  So it seems to be a lot of effort for a debatable gain.

On the other hand, a related idea is to be able use TeXmacs as a plug-in
inside browsers.  I think that this might be very interesting for certain
use scenarios.  I did not investigate for a while, but I remember that Qt
used to simplify this task, so it might be doable without too much pain.

Best wishes, --Joris



On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 08:59:40AM +0000, Sam Liddicott wrote:
>    You basically want a build where editing is forbidden.
>    Microsoft released a stand-alone viewer for Microsoft word because they
>    didn't want to enable editing for licensing reasons.
>    Editing was denied to people who hadn't paid.
>    Why should texmacs editing capabilities be denied to anyone?
>    However, MS Office currently has an initial read-only mode for files
>    downloaded or received by email, and an "enable editing" button is shown.
>    Maybe there is some benefits in that for texmacs to prevent execution of
>    external commands by document macros for those operating systems that 
> have
>    some well-defined system for identifying downloaded files.
>    Sam
>    Sam
>    Sam
>    On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, 18:45 Amir Michail, <[1]address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>      Hello,
> 
>      I was wondering if it would make sense for the TeXmacs team to create a
>      standalone viewer for .tm files.
> 
>      Unlike PDFs, this would at the very least allow you to have word
>      wrapping occur at the window edge and there would be no need for page
>      breaking.
> 
>      Although exporting to HTML does allow this kind of word wrapping, the
>      document visual quality is not as good as what would be possible with a
>      TeXmacs viewer.
> 
>      And of course, a TeXmacs viewer could go much further than PDFs while
>      protecting document integrity (e.g., you might be able to restyle the
>      document, mark it up, etc. without messing up the original content.).
> 
>      What do you think?
> 
>      Amir
> 
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