mgubi

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by mgubi 4y ago
We seldom choose our names, ourselves. The name was chosen early on to pay due respect to the two main sources of inspiration: the TeX system and the Emacs editor. TeXmacs takes the good features of both, but just because I have the same na
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Enhancing TeXmacs' graphics editor from Scheme(forum.texmacs.cn)
1 points by mgubi 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgubi 5y ago
Graphics is different since usually the graphics primitives are the common substrate of all graphics languages, so the interpreter can just be adapted to a different backend. For more structured content this is not possible: the natural out
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by mgubi 5y ago
It is a bit discomforting seeing that discussion in hackernews just remain at the level of "bad choice of name, btw!" without no technical insights. I would have expected more sensible reactions. TeX and Emacs were initial inspira
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by mgubi 5y ago
You do not know what are you talking about clearly. What is "this powerhosrse difference"? What in your opinion is possible with one tool but not with the other?
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by mgubi 5y ago
Well, I guess that if you use "Python" you expect to really have to deal with a snake then.
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by mgubi 5y ago
No, document formats are not turing complete. HTML for example can be parsed without any problem. However take this TeX snippet "\foo [bar]" and tell me if "bar" is an argument of "foo" or not, without running
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by mgubi 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed description. I understand better the problem. I'm not very accustomed to other scripts so I would need to look into this with more details. But at least now I understand what HarfBuzz is about :)
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by mgubi 5y ago
I've looked a bit around and in particular in the poppler library code to see how it works, they use QRawFont in the Qt backend to exploit subpixel antialiasing and native font technologies for each platform. We could do the same, esse
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by mgubi 5y ago
I'm looking right now into better OpenType support. Would you care to specify more in detail what is your use case and the problems you encounter?
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by mgubi 5y ago
Do you have some hints on where to look to see a good implementation of a text rendering engine implementing those features? (Browsers? which?)
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by mgubi 5y ago
The converter (e.g. to HTML or LaTeX) do not require strictly all the program but nobody took the pain to extract it and make it independent of the GUI layer. This could be a nice side project. We are also thinking to implement a facility t
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by mgubi 5y ago
I would be interested in improving (or at least experimenting) in this direction. Do you have any hint on what to do, or what was the problem when you tried? As with PDF we are not bound with a specific rendering pathway in the code, there
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by mgubi 5y ago
In my experience pandoc is not better than TeXmacs in converting LaTeX. The problem, as vdhoeven stressed, is that LaTeX is not a document format which can be converted reliably in something else. Usually I just convert to LaTeX the last v
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by mgubi 5y ago
Well, is more an opportunity to move forward. You just have to consider LaTeX as another output format, not really for human consumption, similar to PDF and HTML. Something you do not want to edit by hand. Many people are anyway moving in t
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by mgubi 5y ago
That is always tricky. HTML is a presentation language in many ways since the use of tricks or inline CSS is not forbidden. So the problem of interaction with it is similar with the problem of interaction with LaTeX (which however adds on t
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by mgubi 5y ago
Yes it does. I didn't got the phrasing right. Sorry! Anyway my comment is valid, I was not really sure if I should keep the recursive picture or not. But I didn't resisted...
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by mgubi 5y ago
Julia is a lot of fun. http://forum.texmacs.cn/t/julia-programming-language/115/27
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by mgubi 5y ago
I do not think so. I understood you didn't liked the Figure comment (and maybe the figure itself)?
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by mgubi 5y ago
I found both links you suggest very interesting and impressive. But again part of my objection is that I do not want my screen divided in two, there is no need in 2020 to stick to this old tradition. I like more to be able to do this: http
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by mgubi 5y ago
TeXmacs is as extensible as Emacs, being based on the same principles: having a full-fledged scheme interpreter to modify the behaviour of the UI and to programmatically edit the documents. You can even have Emacs-like keybindings :). What
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by mgubi 5y ago
I'm sorry you do not like it. Actually is borderline for me too. But I didn't resisted...
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by mgubi 5y ago
> I bet this article itself was written in texmacs and exported to html. you won. Actually as I wrote in another comment all the TeXmacs website, the blog in which the article appears, the web page of the main developer and some other we
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by mgubi 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand a use case for lossless reverse HTML import. TeXmacs can import HTML (e.g. Wikipedia pages) including proper recovery of mathematical formulas from MathJaX or MathML. TeXmacs can export HTML with math in MathM
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by mgubi 5y ago
Thanks. Glad you liked it enough to remember :) Indeed, I've just checked and I still have the TeXmacs files for the "polycopié du cours de Processus Discrets". The main developer was in Orsay at the same time I was there 200
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by mgubi 5y ago
I convince them to use TeXmacs :). At least I do not want to use LaTeX anymore (note that I've been hardcore LaTeX users for long time and also developed software to support LaTeX, e.g. TeXniscope, a previewer for DVI/PDF files in
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by mgubi 5y ago
TeXmacs has interfaces for many systems ( https://twitter.com/gnu_texmacs/status/1382216780702175232 ) including R. Seems that currently R does not run, however I think a medium R user can understand and fix the pro
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by mgubi 5y ago
I generally use TeXmacs for notes, derivations, lectures, articles, all, of course. Most of my papers in the last 7 years, around 15 and all my lectures in the same period, circa 2 courses a year. More in detail, all these papers are been w
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TeXmacs Macros(twitter.com)
2 points by mgubi 6y ago|0 comments
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An overview of TeXmacs from altitude(texmacs.github.io)
2 points by mgubi 6y ago|0 comments

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