Things to do before GUI-developers can start their work

--- Martin RUBEY <rubey@labri.fr> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> This sounds very much like the thing I'm much afraid of: notebooks I 
> cannot read.

No, it should still be human readible, except for things like included
plots.  Think of it as html, except simpler and used only to define
document structure of a notebook for Maxima.  Something like:

<min>
integrate(sin(x),x)
</min>
<mout>
cos(x)
</mout>

And just have emacs grey out anything in <>.  What would you hope to
see when you open it in emacs?  To a certain extent, storing more
information in the file limits how readible it can be and still do the
job.

CY

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