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Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs server


From: Joris van der Hoeven
Subject: Re: [Texmacs-dev] TeXmacs server
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 14:59:28 +0200
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 12:44:36PM +0200, Alvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> It seems to me that Joris wants "chat", where each user is editing one
> document local to him, and this is being displayed remotely. In
> collaborative editors, both share the same document and each sees in
> real time any edits by the other party.

In fact, I want several things:

1) A chatting facility, like IRC channels (already implemented,
   although a few improvements can still be made).
2) A conferencing utility: an extension of 1 with voice (and maybe video).
   This is what would be really useful for me. Currently, it is already
   possible to use 1 in combination with Skype (for instance),
   but I would like something free and a bit more automatic.
   It seems that GNU gatekeepter might help us, but this needs checking.
3) A collaborative authoring facility, like the one you have in mind.
4) Configurable types of geometry: a professor which is connected
   with several students, for instance. Henri and others have been
   doing some work on that and recently wrote an article.

Besides, we need a file system which is better adapted to
TeXmacs documents and maybe even some kind of P2P network.

I will not do all this soon, but this shows my plans for the next years
concerning web facilities for TeXmacs. I definitely think that we should
integrate more and more web tools. I don't know how much previous work
can be reused. For the moment, I opted for a very simple but modular
server/client model which may evolve into a server-network/client model.
It should be easy to incorporate exiting tools at the server side in
a very loose way. In particular, we may use existing voice IP software
or Wiki implementations, just by setting up the right correspondance.

> Personally, I would be very interested, but I acknowledge in line with
> previous posts in the line of getting polished the core functionality
> of the editor, that it would be less work and also very important to
> have offline collaboration features (basically, an appropriate
> stylesheet and maybe better integration with version control systems).

I do plan to have a rudimentary version control system soon at the server side.
This is the other main thing I really need for myself (in particular for
the TeXmacs documentation).




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