I think there might be around four hundred commits between that release and SVN rev 8433. I haven't counted them so there could be more. This should mean many bugs fixed (charset management, pdf export, UI) a couple experimental features and some things noticeably improved, especially in (conservative) LaTeX import/export. Being Qt based, the interface is also more responsive than in the X11 version.
If we only found the time to write that newsletter we once discussed... Best, -- Miguel de Benito. On 9 April 2014 23:39, Bill Page <bill.p...@newsynthesis.org> wrote: > Thanks for the explanation. On my "newer" linux system should I > expect to see any differences between the "x11" version currently > downloadable from the web site: > > > http://www.texmacs.org/Download/ftp/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-x11-i386-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz > > versus your "qt" version TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433... ? > > > On 9 April 2014 05:37, <r...@lix.polytechnique.fr> wrote: > > Those versions are supposed to be 'universal' not link to a specific > > distribution. They aim to provides TeXmacs for distributions which don't > > have it and also to give opportunity to have a newer version without > > recompiling. Else this versions could have some side effects like > François > > noticed it. > > > > I didn't fully test but I would say 'old' is before kernel 2.6. We > > targeted distributions that are 10 years old. > > > >> Any hints about what old and new linux means in this context? Kernel? > >> What version in major distributions, e.g. Fedora, Ubuntu, SuSE ... > >> Also, what advantages this version should have over previous? > >> > >> On 8 April 2014 10:47, Joris van der Hoeven <vdhoe...@texmacs.org> > wrote: > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> Denis Raux has managed to create static binaries for the Qt version of > >>> TeXmacs under Linux. > >>> His packages can be used instead of standard packages provided by > >>> various Linux distributions > >>> in the case that users want the most recent version or if the TeXmacs > >>> package is > >>> not well supported in their favourite distribution. It would be nice > if > >>> as many volunteers under Linux as possible could try the new packages. > >>> The first (A) link is for old Linux distributions, whereas you should > >>> use the second (B) one for more recent versions of Linux. > >>> > >>> > ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433_8437-i386-pc-linux-gnu-A.tar.gz > >>> > ftp://ftp.texmacs.org/TeXmacs/tmftp/generic/TeXmacs-1.99.1-8433-i386-pc-linux-gnu-B.tar.gz > >>> > >>> Installation is similar as for the classical binary distributions. > >>> > >>> Best wishes, --Joris > >> > > > > >
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