On 4 April 2016 at 14:28, Thierry Goubier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 2016-04-04 13:18 GMT+02:00 Stephan Eggermont <[email protected]>: > >> On 04-04-16 11:58, Igor Stasenko wrote: >> >>> Apart from being 'cool to have', full-fledged word processing is not a >>> thing, that you dealing with on a daily basis in environment, like Pharo. >>> >> I'm sure that is the case for you. I wonder if that is the case for many >> Pharo users. >> AFAIK there are a lot of pillar users. >> > > If it is for Pillar, then you don't really need a full-fledged, paper > oriented layout engine. A web-like layout environment is probably enough, > and much less costly to build. > > Now count, how much world-wide resources are dedicated to web-based and browser-based technology development and compare with our resource base. I think it is foolish to set an unrealistic goals. > For me the problem with the TxText model is that it blocks the possibility >> of doing >> that later, if and when there is enough development capacity to invest in >> this. > > > There is enough technology in the Pharo universe to do it (or at least > something approaching). Sometimes, what you need is the ideas / the > rationale from a project to do it. And I do believe TxText has some of it, > even if you consider that TxText can't be extended to do it (and I'll > consider that you are right on this). > > Now, it's on nobody's roadmap, so it may take a while to emerge (if it > does at all). > > Last time, i installed LaTex package on my mac, it took maybe hour or so.. About 1Gb of files, tools, compilers, GUI, text editors.. Now think, how much years it would take to get remotely close to such level of development? And where are those people or money that would allow us to think this is viable path and we should throw everything into it to get there? It is nice to dream time to time, but let us be realistic. > Thierry > -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
