[Texmacs-dev] Re: texmacs styles, and sessions

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> I'll make a diff against 1.0.0.11 as soon as i have some more spare time,
> time (in a week or perhaps a bit longer). I will post a link on the wiki
> page when it's done.

Great; thanks. Notice that we maintain a separate Wiki page for
each contribution, i.e., in your case, one for graphviz and
another one for the tm2ps script.

> > Question: would it be possible to place TeXmacs boxes or
> > postscript graphics inside the text areas of dotty/graphviz?
> 
> hmm.. I don't think graphviz was meant to support this, but I do know a
> hack that will make this work, but it's a bit of a kludge (it involves
> using 'custom graphics box' options in dotty, with one postscript file
> for each box). I can see the reasons why this feature would be useful, but
> I'm afraid there is no clean way to handle this at the graphviz side at
> the moment.

We don't care if the hack is dirty or not; if it *works*,
then that is fine; the user won't see how it works :^)

> One more (perhaps interesting) note on graphviz is that it is _not_
> 'vrij', it is a 'free as in beer' for non-commercial use type of license.
> I do not know of any good alternatives if this is a problem, but I do know
> programs like doxygen use it for their graph plots as well.

In this case, that does not cause any licence problem,
since TeXmacs and graphviz do not depend one on each other.
The situation is similar to linking an extern computer algebra
system like Mupad.

> > We might then try to enhance your interface into a first 
> > interesting "plugin" for TeXmacs (even though I guess that
> > such a project should wait a few months).
> 
> I don't mind waiting and pondering on the idea a bit longer. 

OK, so let's just keep the idea in mind for a while.

> Right now i just do not have a lot of time to hack on TeXmacs, however I
> do spend a lot of time using it right now (I'm using it for the whole
> documentation/manual/system desing document).

No problem; we are already happy with the contributions you made so far.
Of course, we would be happy with others too...

> I did find a few crashbugs that i was unable to track down, and I'll make
> up a real report for those later on.

Yes, please do report bugs. You can put them on the Wiki too.

Greetings, Joris