From: A.Pruszynski (abiword@wp.pl)
Date: Sat Jan 11 2003 - 09:32:24 EST
> From: Luca Padovani <lpadovan@cs.unibo.it>
> To: A.Pruszynski <abiword@wp.pl>
> Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: equations
> Date: 11 Jan 2003 13:53:20 +0100
>
> Hi all,
>
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 00:29, A.Pruszynski wrote:
> > > Vote have been removed because it moved to AbiWord Future.
> > > Note voting is probably not the best way to make it happen. Helping by
> > > contributing code is probably more clever.
> >
> > Requested features helps choosing the way for development.
>
> although I haven't participated explicitly to abiword's development so
> far, I was in touch with Martin Sevior for adding math support
> (rendering/editing) within abiword. The idea was to create a bonobo
> component around my gtkmathview widget for mathml
> (http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget) which could be embedded in abiword
> documents (and hopefully elsewhere). The basic prerequisite to start
> investigating this was having the widget understand "editing", which is
> what I've been working on in the last few months. I can say I'm pretty
> close to releasing the first version with editing support within weeks.
Maybe we can find equation supporters?!
I can support 20 awards $45 each for equations development. So, $900 for
the equations...! (if it starts just now)
Andrzej
[...]
> As for the palette-driven math editors that we all know (and that seem
> to proliferate, see also the mathml editor in mozilla), I'm not very
> keen on them, although there can be no alternative in some
> circumstances. BUT, I'm also working on an editor based on the following
> idea: you type in TeX/LaTeX markup, the markup is converted on-the-fly
> into MathML and the MathML is displayed by gtkmathview. With a suitable
> architecture the whole process is not as heavy as it may sound, and the
> first results I've got are impressive (according to people who assisted
> a demo). This editor too is going to be available in the next future.
> Basically it follows what TeXmacs already does, but it differs in that
> it accepts _exactly_ the TeX syntax and it is modular and extensible
> (MathML is generated via XSLT stylesheets).
>
> Even though I have no control over what other people are doing, there
> are a couple of guys who are looking right now at a Windows port for
> gtkmathview and also at the creation of a bonobo component around it. I
> believe these are two important prerequisites for considering abiword +
> gtkmathview pluggability.
>
> -- luca
>
>
>
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