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140 lines
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<TeXmacs|1.0.7.14>
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<style|tmdoc>
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<tmdoc-title|Plans for the future>
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There are many things that we would like to integrate in <TeXmacs>. On
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<hlink|<name|Savannah>|http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texmacs/>, we
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maintain a<nbsp>wish list with <hlink|suggestions|http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/contact/wishes.en.html>
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by users and other detailed wanted features. Here follows an incomplete
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list of more general directions for future development, as on september 2,
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2011.
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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>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>Better search and replace tool for structured texts, formulas,
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certain environments etc. and 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 a free speech recognition program.
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</itemize>
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<section|Converters to other formats>
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There is a constant need for good converters from and to other data
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formats:
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<\itemize>
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<item>Of course, <TeX>/<LaTeX> cannot really be considered as a format
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(it is really a language with an ill defined grammar). Nevertheless it is
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important to have good heuristic converters in both directions. We still
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would appreciate help in this direction, in particular in order to
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support standard documents styles of various journals.
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<item><TeXmacs> is also compatible with <name|Html>, but some things such
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as forms have not been implemented yet. The importation of tables could
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also be further improved and it would be nice if the importer could
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support cascaded style sheets.
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<item>It would be nice to have converters for the document formats used
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by <name|Open Office>, <name|Word>, and the internal formats used by
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important publishers such as <name|Elsevier>.
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<item>We would appreciate help for writing a converter from <TeXmacs> to
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the <name|Texinfo> format, which is the standard documentation format for
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the GNU project.
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</itemize>
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<section|Technical pictures>
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We have started to include a facility for drawing technical pictures, but
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the responsable developer (Henri <name|Lesourd>) is currently no longer
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part of the <TeXmacs> team. It would be nice to rewrite parts of the tool
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and extend it further so as to allow for the definition of graphical
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macros. This would allow users to define new geometrical constructions. It
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would for instance be possible to write a style file for drawing electronic
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circuits or chemical components with a nice icon bar for selecting circuits
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or 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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<\itemize>
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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 HTML 4.0 mathematical markup or Openmath)
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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 syntax highlighting,
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debugging facilities and so on.
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</itemize>
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<tmdoc-copyright|1998--2011|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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<\collection>
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<associate|language|english>
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</collection>
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