----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- On 12/15/06, Massimiliano Gubinelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this is my first message to the list. I've discovered TeXmacs not a >long time ago but until recently I had not the right appreciation of >its quality and possibilities. >After a long time spent in trying to imagine a better way to do >(scientific) TeXing on the Mac I've realized that it is too expensive >to hack TeX and better to start from the ground up, then I found that >the typesetting engine of TeXmacs is very good and that the data >structures of TeXmacs are the right foundation for a good and prosper >life of any software based on them. > >So I'm here trying to put up a MacOSX (Cocoa) backend for TeXmacs. It >is already running and works fine. Just some details have to be >smeared off. >The current status is a set of C++ classes to replace the X11 backend >(window, display, drawable) and a replacement for the main function >(since MacOSX app do not receive command line arguments). This was my >way to start to understand TeXmacs code. I would really like to >replace ALL the widgets by standard Cocoa widgets and make the app >more Mac friendly. As it stands now probably it can run also in >GNUstep (under Linux) since I use only the NextStep API (I believe). >But in the future this may change: I would really like to leverage at >maximum the capabilities of the Mac.
that is great news. I wanted to do such a thing myself, but wanted to wait till the graphics layer is transfered to OpenGL or Cairo. Could you make tour patches public? Or sent them to me. I would really like to join in and help. At the moment I am working on a Spotlight plugin for TeXmacs and have made a preliminary AppPackage for the X11 version, so that you can use the Finder to open documents and so on. I could work on these parts and an some AppleScript-Texmacs interface for a native TeXmacs version. Again many thanks, Ingolf _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
