Re: [Texmacs-dev] Some thoughts and concerns about the idea and proposal on GSoC

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

AFAIK,
 conversion happens mainly in the scheme code so you may want to start from 
there and go to C++ only if you do not understand what is going on. You want to 
look at TeXmacs/progs/convert and subdirectiories there. I think for starting a 
macro plan should do.

best
max



> On 27. Mar 2020, at 16:28, Yue, Xiang <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi texmacs developers:
> 
> I'm an applicant of GSoC2020, and I just found texmacs in GNU GSoC page. 
> I'm not sure whether this project idea is uploaded few days ago (or not?) 
> but, anyway, I found it pretty interesting to make some converting from 
> texmacs to other format document. And I downloaded texmacs and found it 
> making texting document with math symbols in a fun and easy way. I hope I can 
> participate in the follow up works of the "converters" ideas, and I've cloned 
> and started reading existing codes about improving converter. Basically I 
> guess I would begin with collecting detailed differences of HTML and HTML5 
> and started what I can improve.
> However here are my concerns: first, texmacs seems to be large and I'm not 
> sure to whether I can write a well prepared coding plan since I need to 
> deliver proposal in four days, not to mention that I cannot even propose a 
> PR. I guess the only thing that I can do is to make a rough plan so I want to 
> ask if that's okay; second, I'm pretty familiar with c++ development, but, as 
> for scheme, I need a little bit time to recollect it since I haven't use it 
> for a long time. I also notice these two form the code of converter part, 
> which means I have to use them, but still I need roughly a week to recollect 
> and read the code.
> So I'd like to ask you if it is okay to write a proposal as a macro 
> developing plan (of course, following the items designated in proposal 
> writing guidance) without too much technical details. 
> Hope to collaborate with you soon and wish you all in good health :)
> 
> Best regards,
> Xiang
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