[skribilo-users] Status of the project

[Andrew Erlanger]

Hello,

What is status of the project? It seems like Skribe no longer has a
maintainer (from http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Skribe/). Is this
project being maintained?

Personally, I'd like to add the following features (though they will
likey take a while with my schedule):

      - better documentation
      - [La]TeX backend for the eq package
      - add features for the eq package (matrices, for example)

Additionally, I'd very much like the Skribe emacs mode to hide certain
nontextual information. For instance, in Org mode, when writing
           [[link][description]
the link itself is hidden, and only the description shown. To steal
from Ludo's website (http://web.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludo-5.html#meta-ch),
compare

> (p [Each paper has a link to an ,(ref :ident "meta-ch" :text
> "automatically generated") BibTeX entry which might be somewhat broken
> (please, tell me if this is the case).  ,(ref :url %lout-url :text
> "Lout") users may use ,(ref :url "http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jeff/rtr.c";
>          :text [the ,(tt "rtr") bibliography converter]) while ,(ref :url
> %skribilo-url :text "Skribilo and Skribe") users may of course use ,(tt
> "skribebibtex").]))

to

> (p [Each paper has a link to an _automatically generated_
> BibTeX entry which might be somewhat broken
> (please, tell me if this is the case). _Lout_
> users may use _the ,(tt "rtr") bibliography converter]_ while
> _Skribilo and Skribe_ users may of course use ,(tt
> "skribebibtex").]))

and further hiding of the markup can occur, of course. The point is
that there should be a mode that allows the author to focus on the
content of what they are writing (the local environment) instead of how
the local information related to other content on the web (the global
environment).

I don't know all that much about Emacs Lisp, but I'd be willing to give
it a shot.

Best,

Andrew