Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!eho From: eho@bogey.Princeton.EDU (Eric Y.W. Ho) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: 2nd Generation GNU Emacs & texinfo ? Message-ID: Date: 28 May 89 01:31:28 GMT Sender: news@phoenix.Princeton.EDU Distribution: gnu Organization: Cognitive Science Lab. Princeton University. Lines: 40 Does anyone out there knows or heard of when Emacs 19 (the one the supports rich text -- i.e. one that supports fonts, underlining, highlighting, & other graphical goodies interactively (i.e. if you don't like the font or whatever you can change it at once and you see the change straightaway) is coming out ? It'll be nice of course if the underlining framework is general & simple enough such that others can add their only graphical goodies or perhaps more importantly, others can integrate interactive typsetting stuff on top of Emacs (e.g. your colleague sent you a paper in *roff, tex/latex or texinfo and you can bring it up into an Emacs buffer as typsetted text (i.e. you'll see the paper all formatted) and if you want to add a sentenace then you just position your cursor and type in whatever you want and you see the changes at once on screen and when you finish, you just email the whole thing back as *roff or *tex to your colleague who then can further review your comments/additions -- that is Emacs will do the conversion automatically and you don't even need to know/learn *roff or *tex). Also, is anyone extending texinfo where it can integrate code as well -- i.e. you do your coding much like you write a paper (i.e. different pieces of ideas/paragraphs/code-segments relates to other pieces of ides/paragraphs/code-segments) except that now you're documenting your ideas & writing code at the same time and when you've finished, you just run the whole thing through some converter/filter and it'll churn out pure code (be they in Lisp, C or whatever) on the one hand and typesetted documentation for you designs on the other hand. Then, you just continue to test the generated code. This will be really useful as it integrates a lot of things in a nonlinear way -- especially when you're building a somewhat complicated system and others new to your group have to understand it fairly quickly (it'll also help you as the system author too -- in lots of ways, from documentating your ideas/code to further debug/improve your system). Eric Ho Princeton Cognitive Science Lab., Princeton University email = eho@phoenix.princeton.edu voice = 609-987-2819 -- regards. -eric-