From: Martin Sevior (msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 13:09:38 EST
On 11 Jan 2003, A.Pruszynski wrote:
> > 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.
This is great news Luca :-).
>
> 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)
>
Well I can see the end of tables and footnotes now. After these my next
priority is bonobo for AbiWord 2. Then bug fixing till 2.0. I've been
thinking a lot about what to do next after those and although text
wrapping and text boxes are probabally more interesting to the majoring of
users what I'd most like to do is Equations, so I do hope to work on
equations within the next 6 months.
Having Luca's help will be enormously useful.
Cheers
Martin
> Andrzej
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> > 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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