Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: AxiomUI project funded

[Kai Kaminski]

Hi Bill!

Bill Page wrote:

> On June 26, 2005 5:18 AM Kai Kaminski wrote:
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> > ...
> > It seems obvious to me that using a web browser to replace hyperdoc
> > is a good idea. A browser can also be used to implement a GUI,
> > although I would love to see a portable GUI written in CL using
> > wxWidgets bindings (which don't exist yet).
> >    
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> Also not easily portable to Windows, I think.
>  
WxWidgets are very portable. The bindings could be, they don't exist yet.

> > I'm not so fond of TeXmacs though. While it is a great piece of
> > software it has been a bit sluggish when I used it in the past.
> > It also doesn't look very native on OS X and presumably Windows.
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> The Windows version is "ok" but you are right that it does not
> look completely "native".
>  
Since Tim wants a mind-blowing, novel GUI "ok" is probably not enough ;-)

> > No. It has it's own renderer. TeX is not used but it does
> > use TeX fonts.
> >    
Oh, I obviously didn't know that. If we ever want to render math 
ourselves we might want to steal their code.

> > Since cl-typesetting seems to be very much alive and under
> > active development by some of the best OSS Lisp developers
> > it might be possible to develop a GUI from scratch.
> >    
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> Sounds way too much like hard work to me!
>  
Yes, it is too hard for now. But within the next thirty years, who 
knows. Besides a lot of the work would be done by other people.

Kai