Re: [Axiom-developer] axiom opportunity

[David MENTRE]

Hello,

2006/4/25, Antoine Hersen <address@hidden>:
> > Trying to work with open office as a front-end will certainly
> > force axiom's user interface to mature rapidly.
>
> There will be the problem of  Latex, that might be a lot of works to male OO 
> parse Latex.

On that side, a reasonable approach would be to add a new Axiom output
format suitable for computer parsing (for example as sexp). One could
use a standardized format, like MathML, but I am affraid of its
complexity (that's said, that does not prevent us to look at how
MathML has defined its building blocks).

Regarding initial Tim question: OOo has a documented API but might not
be suited to create new User Interface components. Moreover, its
output is quite awful[1]. For the 30 years horizon, I would much
prefer invest my time in an easily deployable interface (i.e.
HTML/Javascript) and/or a innovative and good looking interface (i.e.
a combination of TeXmacs and the one Tim is always giving as example,
with drag&drop). OOo is not one of them.

Best wishes,
d.

[1] http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/math-big.png