TeXmacs is a structured editor. As such there is not a specific portion which deals with math (which is only a particular markup with some special rendering rules). The current codebase is quite modular but each subsystem is not designed to work independently of the others so take out a specific portion would involve quite a lot of work. There is a Qt backend but which works at a very low level (drawing primitives) and all the translation from the document tree to the graphics primitives (for displaying) and form user input to document tree modifications is made in the texmacs source without relying on the Qt framework. The document is stored as a tree. The typesetter uses style information to convert the tree into a series of typographical boxes which are renderer via translation into graphics primitives. This is the big picture, of course the devil is in the details.... (macros, variables, conversion of the tree into a linear structure for editing and navigation purposes).
Maybe Joris would like to add some more accurate info. In any case there are some info for developers in the documentation which comes with the program. best massimiliano On 21 févr. 2011, at 19:16, Lukasz Stafiniak wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Carter, Nathan <ncar...@bentley.edu> wrote: >> >>> Yes, it is very modular. You take TeXmacs, and you have the editor, >>> without additional dependencies. >>> >>> I'm sorry for this joke ;-) >> >> Hehe. Maybe this means I need to clarify my original question. >> >> By "math editor" I mean *not* the document editor, but specifically that >> portion of it that edits mathematical formulas. Or perhaps it's all the >> same widget? If I'm not asking the right questions, feel free to correct me. >> > > I think a meaningful separation would be a major effort, but I'm not a > developer so we better wait for their answer. > It is still valuable to consider this although (or even if) a modular > design would be worse than an integrated design. > > _______________________________________________ > Texmacs-dev mailing list > Texmacs-dev@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev _______________________________________________ Texmacs-dev mailing list Texmacs-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/texmacs-dev
