TeXmacs

[Gubinelli Massimiliano]

Dear GNUstep developers,

 TeXmacs (www.texmacs.org) is a scientific editing platform with high- 
quality typesetting capabilities. Principal features are: structured  
wysiwyg editing, interface with many scientific/graphical softwares  
(like Maxima, Octave, R, gnuplot, Python), guile scripting. The  
codebase is a mix of C++ and scheme.

The original program had only a X11 backend totally independent of any  
widget toolkit. We are currently developing a Qt backend which started  
as a port of a partial Cocoa backend I wrote some years ago. The Cocoa  
port is woefully incomplete but partially working.

At the moment we are finalizing the Qt port and expect to switch to it  
as a main backend in the next year, leaving the old-fashioned pure-X11  
backend and thus allowing us to deliver a cross-platform application  
which will work on Mac, Windows and X11.

Due to the small number of developers involved (only 2 in stable form)  
we were obliged to concerntrate in one backend and we choose Qt since  
it offered us the possibility to deliver native GUIs on all the majort  
platforms.

I would like to revive the Cocoa backend and wonder if someone here is  
interested in taking on its development.  It is a quite affordable  
project for someone versed in Cocoa/GNUstep and interested in open- 
source scientific software to improve the port so that it can match in  
quality the Qt port. For a big part it is only matter of translating  
Qt structures and operations on the equivalent Cocoa ones. Even if my  
current goal is that of finalizing the Qt port I can provide support  
and more substancial help from time to time.

* You can find some recent screenshots of the Qt gui here (scroll at  
the bottom)

http://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/screenshots.en.html

* If you want to peek at the code we have a svn repository at savannah

http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/src/?root=texmacs

and a git mirror at gitorious

http://gitorious.org/texmacs

* The Cocoa backend directory is trunk/src/src/Plugins/Cocoa
* The Qt backend is in trunk/src/src/Plugins/Qt


I think it would be a nice addition to the set of GNUstep applications.

Best regards,

Massimiliano Gubinelli