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125 lines
4.6 KiB
Tcl
<TeXmacs|1.0.7.1>
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<style|tmdoc>
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<\body>
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<tmdoc-title|Plans for the future>
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<with|color|red|[Should be completed]>
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<section|Typesetting>
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The typesetter should be reorganized and improved as follows:
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<\itemize>
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<item>Decouple the style-sheet language from the actual typesetter.
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<item>Better support for agglomerated documents (from physically
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different documents).
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<item>Incorporation of better linking primitives (XLink, Proclus).
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<item>More types of dynamic objects, like animations, help balloons,
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<abbr|etc.>
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<item>Better line-breaking of large formulas.
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</itemize>
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<section|Extra facilities for editing texts>
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Although cursor movement, selections, etc. have already been implemented,
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some other standard editing facilities have not yet been completed. Let us
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mention a few of these:
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<\itemize>
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<item>Searching/replacing texts, formulas, certain environments etc. and
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regular expressions.
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<item>Mathematical facilities: simplification of a selected region,
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substitutions of formulas in other formulas, etc.
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<item>Version control.
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<item>Data compression and protection.
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<item>Grammar checkers and automatic translation programs. Does someone
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know where to find detailed free dictionaries and stuff like that?
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<item>Incorporation of free speech recognition program.
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</itemize>
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<section|A universal spreadsheet>
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We would like to incorporate a ``universal spreadsheet'' facility into
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<TeXmacs>. The idea is that all dependencies between the cells in the sheet
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are analyzed by <TeXmacs>, but all actual computations are delegated to an
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extern system of your choice, like one of the currently supported computer
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algebra systems. Also, the data of the spreadsheet will not necessarily be
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formatted in a rectangular table; one can also imagine dependencies between
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nodes of a tree, elements of a graph, or anything else.
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<section|Technical pictures>
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I also would like to include a facility for drawing technical pictures. In
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this implementation you should be able to benefit from the fact that you
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can define macros for making geometrical constructions. It would for
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instance be possible to write a style file for drawing electronic circuits
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or chemical components with a nice icon bar for selecting circuits or
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components, just as you select lines and circles in usual pictures.
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<section|Tools for usage on the web and in networks>
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It would be nice to have a better integration of <TeXmacs> with the web. As
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a first step, we need a clean internal plug-in for <name|Wget> or
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<name|Curl> with support for cookies, security, etc. At a second stage, the
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Html converters should be improved to take advantage of this. After that,
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we may think about things like collaborative authoring via the web,
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integration with preprint servers, <abbr|etc.>
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Another interesting thing would be to incorporate tools for live
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conferencing inside <TeXmacs>. We actually expect this to be quite easy and
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this would open a different road towards collaborative authoring, instant
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messenging, <abbr|etc.>
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<section|Interface with computer algebra systems>
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The following improvements should still be made in order to link <TeXmacs>
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to computer algebra systems:
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<\enumerate>
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<item>Improving the layout of computer algebra sessions.
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<item>Add extra features to increase the interoperability between
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<TeXmacs> and computer algebra systems and to give additional control
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over the layout of big output.
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<item>More semantics for the objects being communicated. This may either
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be high level information (like Openmath or HTML 4.0 mathematical markup)
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or low level information (including information about the representation
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of data), depending on the required speed.
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<item>Further possibilities for evolution concern highlighting, debugging
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facilities and so on.
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</enumerate>
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<section|Interaction with other GNU projects>
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We would appreciate help for writing a converter from <TeXmacs> to the
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<name|Texinfo> format, which is the standard documentation format for the
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GNU project.
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<tmdoc-copyright|1998--2002|Joris van der Hoeven>
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<tmdoc-license|Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free
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Documentation License".>
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</body>
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<\initial>
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<\collection>
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<associate|language|english>
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</collection>
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</initial> |