Re: Status to the Lasem branch (GSoC 2013)

Hi Jean,

Thanks very much for this update. Please carry on as you've done so
far. I'm very much in favour of inline as well as block. Please ensure
the feature is available.

Cheers

Martin

On 27 February 2014 00:55, Jean Bréfort <jean.brefort@normalesup.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Since last summer I have polished some of the features Abhishek an
> myself introduced during last summer, and extensively tested the new
> equation back-end. The main points are:
> - The Lasem based back-end is stable (and fixes the reported bugs about
> wrong or missing glyphs we have in buzilla), the equations are rendered
> using the current font, including the color. Something that is missing
> in our code currently is the support for inline display. Only block
> display is available after an equation edition (we do support inline
> display when the mathml code is loaded from a file, but it is lost after
> editing). Should we support both? If yes we need to add a boolean since
> the itex code we store does not uses $$ or \[\].
>
> - The MathML to itex works, but as also needed it elsewhere, I rewrote
> it and moved to goffice (will be in next release, i.e. 0.10.12 and I'll
> wait that release before committing anything to abiword, and at this
> time I'll drop the goffice-bits code as already discussed and request
> that recent goffice version).
>
> - The "Advanced Equation Editor" (Gtk only) is not usable. My plans are
> to write an equation editor widget in goffice (it already exists
> actually, but with minimal features) with the following:
> * a character table (Abhishek already worked on that, so I can copy his
> code, it needs much love before being really useful).
> * a preview in the dialog box so that we can see what we do without
> inserting in the main window.
> * some auto completion, at least add the missing braces so that itex2mml
> returns something useful.
> The current goffice version is analogous to our current editor (it just
> have a check box to switch between inline and block display).
>
> Cheers,
> Jean
>
Received on Thu Feb 27 02:15:34 2014