Re: [Texmacs-dev] What is the future of TeXmacs?

[Xiaoxiang Chai]

Dear all,

I am a mathematician based in China. I use lisp/scheme for everyday chores. 
Here is a list of things I would
like to see in future Texmacs, of course, as a mathematician.

1. Texmacs should be more user friendly to mathematicians, physicists. Because 
I think more users will bring more developers to make Texmacs better. 'Export 
to latex' is first to improve. Apply common practice from the community which 
uses a lot math. For example, you hit CC in math mode, you get a wierd chunk of 
code(not commonly used) instead of just '\mathbb{C}'.
2. Provide GUI interface for users to customize their own shortcuts.
3. Divide what the 'kbd-tab' can do into Scheme functions. I have checked the 
code, it seems to me that autocompletion functionality is bind to TAB in the C 
level. I do not think this is good practice.
4. Solve the numbering issues of eqnarry, align at least for 'export to
Latex'.

Best,
Chai




On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 02:14:25AM +0800, sadhen wrote:
> Dear TeXmacs Developers:
> 
> 
> I was a casual contributor of TeXmacs when I was a student. I love the design 
> of TeXmacs.
> 
> 
> I’m interested in:
> 
> 
> 1. upgrade guile
> 2. improve typesetting on CJK (http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?47186)
> 3. typesetting on source code (eg.http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8899)
> 
> 
> However, TeXmacs is inactive and cannot attract new contributors(do not know 
> if it is a fact).
> 
> 
> In my opinion, the following is necessary:
> 1. switch to git
> 2. switch to github or gitlab
> 3. write a detailed how-to-contribute doc
> 
> 
> What’s your opinion? What’s the reason we still stick to SVN? What is the 
> extra effort to switch to git?
> 
> 
> I’m willing to help switching to Git.

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