Re: [racket-users] student project idea: semi-WYSIWYG Scribble editor (Was: Racket 6.9)

2017-04-30 Thread Matthew Butterick
> On Apr 29, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Alternatively, and simpler: you might have two window panes, one in which the > user writes Scribble source, and another that gives an almost-live > semi-WYSIWYG view of how the source would render. FWIW, Pollen

Re: [racket-users] student project idea: semi-WYSIWYG Scribble editor (Was: Racket 6.9)

2017-04-30 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Hendrik Boom wrote on 04/30/2017 08:25 AM: On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 05:24:39PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: Alternatively, and simpler: you might have two window panes, one in which the user writes Scribble source, and another that gives an almost-live semi-WYSIWYG view of how the source would

Re: [racket-users] student project idea: semi-WYSIWYG Scribble editor (Was: Racket 6.9)

2017-04-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 05:24:39PM -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > > Alternatively, and simpler: you might have two window panes, one in which > the user writes Scribble source, and another that gives an almost-live > semi-WYSIWYG view of how the source would render. Ideally have the >

[racket-users] student project idea: semi-WYSIWYG Scribble editor (Was: Racket 6.9)

2017-04-29 Thread Neil Van Dyke
If some undergrad wanted a summer programming project... make a semi-WYSIWYG editor for Scribble documents. You might have a long scrolling text window, in which things like boldface/italics/color/textsize that Scribble would render are editable text, and Scribble markup itself doesn't appear