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Gubinelli Massimiliano |
Subject: |
TeXmacs |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:02:49 +0100 |
Dear GNUstep developers,
TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) is a scientific editing platform with high-
quality typesetting capabilities. Principal features are: structured
wysiwyg editing, interface with many scientific/graphical softwares
(like Maxima, Octave, R, gnuplot, Python), guile scripting. The
codebase is a mix of C++ and scheme.
The original program had only a X11 backend totally independent of any
widget toolkit. We are currently developing a Qt backend which started
as a port of a partial Cocoa backend I wrote some years ago. The Cocoa
port is woefully incomplete but partially working.
At the moment we are finalizing the Qt port and expect to switch to it
as a main backend in the next year, leaving the old-fashioned pure-X11
backend and thus allowing us to deliver a cross-platform application
which will work on Mac, Windows and X11.
Due to the small number of developers involved (only 2 in stable form)
we were obliged to concerntrate in one backend and we choose Qt since
it offered us the possibility to deliver native GUIs on all the majort
platforms.
I would like to revive the Cocoa backend and wonder if someone here is
interested in taking on its development. It is a quite affordable
project for someone versed in Cocoa/GNUstep and interested in open-
source scientific software to improve the port so that it can match in
quality the Qt port. For a big part it is only matter of translating
Qt structures and operations on the equivalent Cocoa ones. Even if my
current goal is that of finalizing the Qt port I can provide support
and more substancial help from time to time.
* You can find some recent screenshots of the Qt gui here (scroll at
the bottom)
http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/screenshots.en.html
* If you want to peek at the code we have a svn repository at savannah
http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/src/?root=texmacs
and a git mirror at gitorious
http://gitorious.org/texmacs
* The Cocoa backend directory is trunk/src/src/Plugins/Cocoa
* The Qt backend is in trunk/src/src/Plugins/Qt
I think it would be a nice addition to the set of GNUstep applications.
Best regards,
Massimiliano Gubinelli
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