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@@ -1,16 +1,28 @@ --*- Outline -*- +-*- Org -*- + +Copyright 2007 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> + + Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, + are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright + notice and this notice are preserved. + + +This is a fairly long list of to-do items for Skribilo, hopefully not +too outdated, but probably somewhat ambitious, as suggested by the +headings below. + +XXX: Check items in `[[file:src/guile/README::Skribilo%20Outline][src/guile/README]]'. * Important Items (Release Blockers) ** Update the documentation, remove Skribe legacy stuff ** Have a PS/PDF version of the documentation (preferably using Lout) ** Remove calls to `skribe-error', use SRFI-35 exceptions -** Fix the HTML engine for `html-left-margin' -Left margin doesn't display well when CSS is being used. - * Small Items, Known Bugs +** Fix the HTML engine for `html-left-margin' +Left margin doesn't display well when CSS is being used. ** `eq' package: Handle `:number' in the HTML back-end @@ -29,13 +41,53 @@ e.g., `(skribilo package slide)'). Likewise, there's no replacement for the `*load-options*' mechanism implemented by `skribe-load' (see, e.g., `web-article'). -** Write an Info engine based on Scribe's one -** Write an XHTML engine +** Add new engines +*** Write an Info engine based on Scribe's one +*** Write an XHTML engine +*** Render equations using MathML when rendering to HTML +*** Write a [[GUI]] +** Add new readers +*** Add an Org-Mode reader +Could be based on [[http://wingolog.org/software/guile-present/][Andy's parser in Guile-Present]]. +*** Add a Texinfo reader +Could be based on the one in [[http://home.gna.org/guile-lib/][Guile-Lib]]. + ** Write a nice GUI based on Andy's STexi browser -** Render equations using MathML when rendering to HTML +** Add a BibTeX parser ** Add stand-alone tools Such as `skribilo-to-bibtex', `bibtex-to-skribilo', etc. ** Provide better internationalization *** Add a `:language' keyword to `document' -** Check items in `src/guile/README' +** Provide a `skribilo-safe' module name space +In `[[file:src/guile/skribilo/module.scm][(skribilo module)]]', the default user-module should not contain any +filesystem-related primitives, nor any standard module allowing such +operations (e.g., `(ice-9 popen)'). + +* Much Longer Term Items +** Move to a purely functional style +The goal would be to benefit from referential transparency several +levels, thereby clarifying the code and allowing for a wide range of +improvements (e.g., reusing ASTs or engines in different contexts). + +*** Implement a purely functional `resolve' +We'd need to first iterate over the AST: + +1. to create a dictionary of nodes (keyed by node `:ident'); +2. to create a parent-lookup dictionary, so that things like + `ast-parent' can be implemented. + +To that end, VList-based hash lists could come into play. Andy Wingo's +[[http://wingolog.org/pub/fold-and-xml-transformation.pdf][work on `fold-layout']] would certainly be a good source of inspiration. + +*** Avoid side effects on engines +**** Customs could be passed at engine instantiation time +**** Main problem is `markup-writer' + +** Don't name markups using symbols +Markups should be named using unforgeable objects, rather than symbols. +This would be a step in the direction of "capability-object semantics". +;;; Local Variables: +;;; coding: utf-8 +;;; ispell-local-dictionary: "american" +;;; End: |