On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Alan Kay wrote:

> It would be terrific to have such a solver with an integrated editor
> as an central part of Squeak's layout powers.

I was going to work on such an editor, although, not WYSIWYG.  I like
LaTeX, and have been bitten by so-called WYSIWYG editors in the past.
Yes, it's very primitive, but I wouldn't say that Word or Word-like
editors are the apex of user friendly, but I wouldn't imagine anyone else
would too.

In any case, for a summer research project (http://www.urop.umn.edu), I
pitched to a prof either working on Dynapad (http://spe.sf.net), or a TeX
analogue in Squeak.  He liked the Dynapad idea more, so that's what I'll
be working on this summer.  But I still may be able to work on the TeX
analogue some on the side.

In any case, I was going to use markup, probobly s-exps.  I'd write it in
common lisp, but the goal here is to be able to live out of Squeak as much
as possible.  It hurts to use Squeak for a while, working intently on a
project, then have to go and deal with <insert desktop-os here>.  It would
output PostScript.  If anyone is interested in helping out with such a
project, let me know.

Regards,
Aaron

  Aaron Reichow  ::  UMD ACM Pres  ::  http://www.d.umn.edu/~reic0024/
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