On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:44:36PM +0200, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote: > It seems to me that Joris wants "chat", where each user is editing one > document local to him, and this is being displayed remotely. In > collaborative editors, both share the same document and each sees in > real time any edits by the other party.
In fact, I want several things: 1) A chatting facility, like IRC channels (already implemented, although a few improvements can still be made). 2) A conferencing utility: an extension of 1 with voice (and maybe video). This is what would be really useful for me. Currently, it is already possible to use 1 in combination with Skype (for instance), but I would like something free and a bit more automatic. It seems that GNU gatekeepter might help us, but this needs checking. 3) A collaborative authoring facility, like the one you have in mind. 4) Configurable types of geometry: a professor which is connected with several students, for instance. Henri and others have been doing some work on that and recently wrote an article. Besides, we need a file system which is better adapted to TeXmacs documents and maybe even some kind of P2P network. I will not do all this soon, but this shows my plans for the next years concerning web facilities for TeXmacs. I definitely think that we should integrate more and more web tools. I don't know how much previous work can be reused. For the moment, I opted for a very simple but modular server/client model which may evolve into a server-network/client model. It should be easy to incorporate exiting tools at the server side in a very loose way. In particular, we may use existing voice IP software or Wiki implementations, just by setting up the right correspondance. > Personally, I would be very interested, but I acknowledge in line with > previous posts in the line of getting polished the core functionality > of the editor, that it would be less work and also very important to > have offline collaboration features (basically, an appropriate > stylesheet and maybe better integration with version control systems). I do plan to have a rudimentary version control system soon at the server side. This is the other main thing I really need for myself (in particular for the TeXmacs documentation). _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
