[gnu-soc] GNU TeXmacs in GSoC 2020

[Darcy Shen]

Dear Jose and all:

Thank you very much for the notice. Could you please include the following ideas for GNU TeXmacs:

Name of the GNU program: GNU TeXmacs

GNU TeXmacs is a free scientific editing platform designed to create beautiful technical documents.

Converters (Easy)

• Descriptions
  • Between TeXmacs and OpenOffice/LibreOffice/M$Office.
  • Extend the HTML converters to HTML 5.
  • Between TeXmacs and Markdown(CommonMark)
• Outcomes
  • Improve the converters for GNU TeXmacs
• Skills: C++ and Scheme

Further improvement of bibliographic tools (Medium)

• Descriptions
  • Direct searching of bib entries on the web from within TeXmacs.
  • Automatic linking of authors to homepages, bib entries to PDFs, etc.
  • Preview of link targets in help balloons.
  • Connection with Zotero
    
• Outcomes
  • Improve GNU TeXmacs for academic purpose
• Skills: C++ and Scheme

A Jupyter plugin (Medium)

• Descriptions
• Improve the existing python-implemented plugins in TeXmacs
  
• Adapt the Jupyter protocol to the TeXmacs plugin protocol
• Converters from/to the Jupyter notebook format

• Outcomes
• Enrich the TeXmacs plugin ecosystem on top of Jupyter
• Skills: C++, Scheme and Python
  

Contact address for interested students: address@hidden