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Re: [skribilo-users] Plans for the Future
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: [skribilo-users] Plans for the Future |
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Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:35:47 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Karl,
Karl Winterling <address@hidden> writes:
> I've been aware of Skribilo for about a year now and I think that the
> whole concept behind it is awesome.
Heh, cool. ;-)
> However, there are a few shortcomings I've noticed. Most notably, it
> seems hard to get Guile running on Windows (which raises portability
> concerns)
I think we (I’m a Guile co-maintainer) are doing our best to keep Guile
running on Windows, MinGW to be precise. If you encounter any problem
building it or using it on MinGW, then that’s probably a bug that ought
to be reported to address@hidden
> and equation formatting seems underdeveloped.
That’s true. Particularly, there ought to be a TeX back-end, and
probably a MathML back-end too. The Lout back-end for equations
basically works but rendering could surely be improved (which also
implies work on the Lout side).
> It would be great if Skribilo evolved into some modular scientific
> office suite Scheme library with a type of structured WYSIWYM editor
> (like GNU TeXmacs) with math support.
The ‘TODO’ file contains “Write a nice GUI based on Andy's STexi
browser”, which refers to this:
http://wingolog.org/pub/texinfo-browser.png . That would provide a nice
viewer; one could imagine augmenting it so that it becomes a LyX-like
editor, but that’s not on my to-do list.
BTW I’ve been quite inactive on Skribilo for some time, the reason being
that my spare time is currently largely dedicated to the forthcoming
Guile 2.0 (see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-12/msg00035.html for
the latest announcement). I’ve started “porting” Skribilo to Guile 1.9,
which I’m hoping to finalize “soon”.
I also need to look at Klaus’ bug. ;-)
Thanks,
Ludo’.