Hello Chris, I propose that you remove the LaTeX component HotEqn from FreeMind 0.9.0, now that there is still time to do it before final release. HotEqn is poorly integrated into FreeMind: it has no support in HTML export functions, and it is unlikely to get one. It requires LaTeX formulas to be appended to nodes, as it were, instead of being placed in the middle of the long node text. No LaTeX formulas can be placed into notes with HotEqn. As a further nuisance, HotEqn is licensed under GNU GPL V3, incompatible with FreeMind's GNU GPL V2+ unless FreeMind migrates to GNU GPL V3.
A better solution for LaTeX formulas, out of scope of FreeMind 0.9.0, is to place LaTeX formulas into long nodes and notes, and render them using a Java component that renders LaTeX formulas into PNG, so they can be included as images. I have implemented this solution in my version of FreeMind using the component JMathTeX back in 2008 and released in May 2009 (https://sites.google.com/site/danpolansky/freemind). Freeplane seems to use the same solution, whether taken over from my source code or implemented independently, just that it uses an updated version and fork of the component: JLaTeXMath. There is now even an external plugin for FreeMind that provides this sort of support for LaTeX formulas, so technically-minded users can use FreeMind 0.9.0 with this plugin right now after they install the plugin; see also http://github.com/Alxa/LaTeXMath-Freemind-Plugin. If HotEqn remains in the final release, and if FreeMind starts using the other solution for LaTeX formulas later, there will be a migration cost thereafter for the users. It seems to me that the migration cost is better avoided now, when there is still time. For the users who like HotEqn, HotEqn could be still made downloadable somewhere as an external plugin, but it would be outside of scope of the maximum version of FreeMind. What do you think of the proposal to remove HotEqn? Best regards, Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Freemind-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freemind-developer
