Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work

--- Martin RUBEY <rubey@labri.fr> wrote:
> 
> good point. But *PLEASE* human-readable notation! When I get a
> notebook from somebody (I won't write one), I want to be able to 
> launch my emacs, (emacs, not texmacs) and have all the notebook 
> stuff disappear (maybe be a comment or the like) 

Hmm.  I suppose that might be possible, although I suppose Jay would
know better than I would.  Maybe have Maxima parse the file into
something appropriate before loading, whichever interface is used?

> Isn't it possible to just *display* maxima input in 2D?

I suppose it should be, but I don't know how hard it would be.
 
> > Um.  I don't think using MathML will ensure we can export and
> import to
> > other CAS with any success.  Dr. Fateman can probably point out the
> > weaknesses better than I, but I suspect MathML will mainly be
> useful as
> > a tool to allow export of Maxima documents in a format suitable for
> web
> > browsers.  
> 
> I think so, too.
> 
> > XML we might be able to use as a native document storage
> > method, depending on how that works out, but that will all need to
> > be discussed when the time comes.
> 
> Don't you like latex + hevea? 

I've never had terribly good luck with it - becides, I don't think
hevea handles mathml.  What I ment was xml might be used to define a
file format for Maxima notebooks that could be universally used by all
the different GUIs that people write, so the only choice becomes which
interface best suits an individual, rather than file format
incompatibilities.

CY

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