Re: [skribilo-users] Plans for the Future

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Karl,

Karl Winterling <address@hidden> writes:

> I've been aware of Skribilo for about a year now and I think that the
> whole concept behind it is awesome.

Heh, cool.  ;-)

> However, there are a few shortcomings I've noticed. Most notably, it
> seems hard to get Guile running on Windows (which raises portability
> concerns)

I think we (I’m a Guile co-maintainer) are doing our best to keep Guile
running on Windows, MinGW to be precise.  If you encounter any problem
building it or using it on MinGW, then that’s probably a bug that ought
to be reported to address@hidden

> and equation formatting seems underdeveloped.

That’s true.  Particularly, there ought to be a TeX back-end, and
probably a MathML back-end too.  The Lout back-end for equations
basically works but rendering could surely be improved (which also
implies work on the Lout side).

> It would be great if Skribilo evolved into some modular scientific
> office suite Scheme library with a type of structured WYSIWYM editor
> (like GNU TeXmacs) with math support.

The ‘TODO’ file contains “Write a nice GUI based on Andy's STexi
browser”, which refers to this:
http://wingolog.org/pub/texinfo-browser.png .  That would provide a nice
viewer; one could imagine augmenting it so that it becomes a LyX-like
editor, but that’s not on my to-do list.

BTW I’ve been quite inactive on Skribilo for some time, the reason being
that my spare time is currently largely dedicated to the forthcoming
Guile 2.0 (see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-12/msg00035.html for
the latest announcement).  I’ve started “porting” Skribilo to Guile 1.9,
which I’m hoping to finalize “soon”.

I also need to look at Klaus’ bug.  ;-)

Thanks,
Ludo’.