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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: A.Pruszynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
