From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (kenneth@gnu.org)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 13:15:21 EST
Great news!
Though, I hope equations will be integrated at text level instead of as
a component. This is what is done in LyX, and it does make a difference
if you write physics reports etc.
Anyway, please take this into consideration.
--Kenneth
man, 2003-01-13 kl. 19:09 skrev Martin Sevior:
> 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
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
-- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
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