Re: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting Applications for Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2013

Hi all,

I might propose a little project, but might be too easy for a GSOC
project: optionally replace gmathview by lasem (--with-lasem or so).
Optionally, because we need at least one feature which only exists in
the latest development branch so it can' be the default until lasem-0.6
is out, and also because some people might prefer the gmathview output.

What lasem would bring:

* use the current font, and as it uses pango, use font replacement when
a character is missing (this works much better than with gmathview which
does not replace missing characters but prints a red square instead).
Some people might prefer the fonts used by gmathview though.

* it is maintained while gmathview seems orphan since 2008 or so.

* itex2mml is already imported by lasem, so that we don't to need to
have a copy in abiword.

We also have an unrelated issue for the mathml to itex conversion. We
currently use the same style sheets than for the mathml to latex
conversion, but itex is much more restrictive, so sometimes it does not
accept the resulting string, especially some entities. There are several
possible solutions: have modified style sheets which ensure that the
resulting string can be accepted by itex2mml (this is mainly replacing
some entities by appropriate &#xxx; codes), use a pre-parser to replace
what itex2mml can't convert, or send patches to the itex2mml authors
(not sure this will be efficient, who knows?).

If it is too easy for a GSOC project, I'll do it myself (I suppose it
can be done in one week or less).

Cheers,
Jean

Le vendredi 22 mars 2013 à 10:23 +1100, Martin Sevior a écrit :
> Hi Pradeeban,
>
> Did you make a wiki entry for abiword for 2013? I can't see it on the
> website. Also can you confirm you will be a mentor this year? It's
> just you me and Dom this year I think.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:23 PM, Dominic Lachowicz
> <domlachowicz@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm happy to mentor again. Just let me know how I can help. I'd really
> > like it if 3.0 got out - the students' work from last year hasn't been
> > officially released yet.
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Martin Sevior <msevior@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> Who wants to be a Mentor this year?
> >>
> >> I'm happy to have another turn at it.
> >> I guess Pradeeban does too.
> >>
> >> Who else?
> >> uwog?, Dom?, Simon?, Hub?, Jean? Xun Sun?
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> From: Carol Smith <carols@google.com>
> >> Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 6:00 AM
> >> Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] Now Accepting Applications for
> >> Mentoring Organizations for GSoC 2013
> >> To: gsoc-mentors-announce <gsoc-mentors-announce@googlegroups.com>
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> We're pleased to announce that applications for mentoring
> >> organizations for Google Summer of Code 2013 are now being accepted
> >> [1]. If you'd like to apply to be a mentoring organization you can do
> >> so via Melange [2]. If you have questions about how to use Melange,
> >> please see our User's Guide [3].
> >>
> >> Please note that the application period [4] closes on 29 March at
> >> 19:00 UTC [5]. We will not accept any late applications for any
> >> reason.
> >>
> >> [1] - http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/03/mentoring-organization-applications-now.html
> >> [2] - http://www.google-melange.com
> >> [3] - http://en.flossmanuals.net/melange/
> >> [4] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013
> >> [5] - http://goo.gl/xmQMJ
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Carol
> >>
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Received on Sun Mar 24 18:14:00 2013