Comments on: Gtk2Hs introductory presentation

By: Dan S.

Dan S. — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:22:02 +0000

I unfortunately cannot provide a citation, but several years ago I recall reading a paper where someone set out to reproduce Knuth’s formula layout algorithms in O’Caml — if I remember correctly. Should make for easy cribbing/porting!

Whoops, about that citation. Here you go:
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/heckmann97functional.html

Cheers!

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:17:49 +0000

Immanuel, I suggest you email the Epigram people and see if they have any code available. When I talked to them they were quite positive about the idea of sharing any layout/rendering stuff that they might come up with.

By: Immanuel Normann

Immanuel Normann — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:24:39 +0000

When I read about “Epigram and formula layout”:
“They want to build a WYSIWYG structure editor with LaTeX-quality on-screen rendering.”
I wonder whether you have already noticed TeXmacs? To my knowledge there is nothing comparable to TeXmacs. To have something like TeXmacs implemented in Haskell would be great! - and I would like to contribute in such a project.

By: Peter Moulder

Peter Moulder — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:37:38 +0000

Re formula layout, please consider using existing code, such as libgtkmathview (or *TeX, depending on what properties you’re looking for). At the very least, read the 2004 guadec paper (see the Documentation sidebar at http://helm.cs.unibo.it/mml-widget/), which mentions some issues you’ll run up against. It also gives the layout of gtkmathview’s source tree.