Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
Subject: Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work
From: Karl M. Hegbloom
Date: 10 Jun 2003 14:09:56 -0700
On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 02:31, Michael Reimpell wrote:
> lacking a notebook-style GUI, I recently played around with the QT/KDE-classes
> to see how difficult it is to write one. [...]
Have you heard of TeXmacs? Please try it. http://www.texmacs.org/
They have mailing lists also.
You savvy Debian users can just "apt-get install texmacs".
I think it would be well worthwhile to develop the interface between
TeXmacs and Maxima! It is already pretty good -- you can perform input
to the CAS in math mode, not just ye olde flat-ASCII. It lets you
select subexpressions with the mouse, for cut and paste.
There are some interesting papers to be read re the topic of CAS user
interfaces. Here are two that I found very interesting:
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kajler95survey.htmlhttp://citeseer.nj.nec.com/kajler94some.html
You'll find more there, and probably a few more like it at ACM. Some of
the ideas there should be implemented in the TeXmacs / Maxima interface.
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Karl M. Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>